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Meet Craiggers: It Blows Craigslist Out of The Water
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Re: Meet Craiggers: It Blows Craigslist Out of The Water
#12How does this blow Craigslist out of the water? As far as I can tell, it's the same old craigslist, questionably skinned, and with less options.
Well, you can search across multiple locations/categories and there's saved searches and favorites.
Re: Meet Craiggers: It Blows Craigslist Out of The Water
#13I'm having a hard time seeing how this is better than Craigslist itself. Also, need to lose the animations - they're useless eye candy and it just slows down the UI.
Re: Meet Craiggers: It Blows Craigslist Out of The Water
#14I'm having a hard time seeing how this is better than Craigslist itself. Also, need to lose the animations - they're useless eye candy and it just slows down the UI.
Perhaps you could elaborate a bit on how it's not better than craigslist.
Also, twitter, kayak, hipmunk etc. all take advantage of UI animations quite similar to the ones used here. A bit more complex than simply changing the color of a car ;)
Re: Meet Craiggers: It Blows Craigslist Out of The Water
#15Legal dispute in 3... 2... 1... Haven't other's tried implementing new UIs for craigslist, only to be "shot down" by craigslist? [things like this were mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=963561 ]
So what's your point? Imagine if facebook or google had let the fear of a potential legal dispute stop them.
Re: Meet Craiggers: It Blows Craigslist Out of The Water
#16I think the headline is about four words too long.
Wait, which for words? Does craiggers just blow craigslist? Is it a vile headline when you remove the 4 words? Just curious. ;)
Re: Meet Craiggers: It Blows Craigslist Out of The Water
#17Legal dispute in 3... 2... 1... Haven't other's tried implementing new UIs for craigslist, only to be "shot down" by craigslist? [things like this were mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=963561 ]
Craig Newmark himself laid out what concerns he might (or might not) have. Craiggers architecture meets Craigs standard of not putting a load on CL to host the data. Here's Craig's own quote on Quora:
http://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-anyone-built-any-products-on-...
Craig Newmark, customer service rep & founder 33 votes by Rodney Pearce, June Lin, Ludi Rehak, (more) "Actually, we take issue with only services which consume a lot of bandwidth, it's that simple."
Re: Meet Craiggers: It Blows Craigslist Out of The Water
#18It certainly is an impressive UI, but the search function doesn't seem to be as effective as the one on Craigslist itself. For example, when I searched for 1 bedroom apartments on Craigslist in my area, I got 18 results, all of them for 1 bedroom apartments. When I used Craiggers, I got 9 results, half of them for 2 bedroom apartments.
I don't know if this is a limitation of the API or of Craiggers' search, but either way, a good UI is useless without good data to back it up.
Finally, I don't think Craigslist's UI is actually that terrible. I think its rather refreshing to have a site that simply displays information as a set of HTML links, rather than trying to stuff an entire application into the browser. It doesn't seem to be a popular way of making things these days, but I wish more web sites would try it.