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But definitely YMMV depending on the city you're in.
I'm glad it's stayed the way it is. Arguably the best marketplace website, period. Simple to post, simple to use, local pickup only. Not infested with ad/promoted listings.
I hate FB Marketplace. It's actively hostile to buyers. Like, try to find a "kinda nice" bicycle. You can't find the bicycle category (though it does exist as a sub-group of Sporting Goods), you can't just say "show me bikes" unless you hack the URL, you can search for the word "bicycle" but for some reason people selling a "Specialized Rockhopper" think you know it's a bicycle so don't use that word. Oh, and when se…
Craigslist >> NextDoor >> OfferUp >> eBay >> FB But definitely YMMV depending on the city you're in. I'm glad it's stayed the way it is. Arguably the best marketplace website, period. Simple to post, simple to use, local pickup only. Not infested with ad/promoted listings.
I don't particularly like Craigslist's UI, but I still prefer it to other online marketplaces because it's fast and simple. I do find it cluttered and not very nice to navigate, but I'll gladly take a bit of clutter and clunkiness over MBs of hideous banner ads shoved in my face, and god-knows what trackers and scripts are being used on the other sites. Similarly, I still use old.reddit and will continue to do so unt…
See, I completely equate "clutter" with things like banner ads. CL is amongst the least "cluttered" sites I use. It absolutely doesn't live up to the latest trends in UI/UX design, but the fact that it feels more like basic HTML forms with little styling is a feature, not a bug.
I'd have to disagree pretty strongly here. It is- excluding the homepage- a paragon of modern UX design, and I think many other sites have taken a lot of inspiration. Search oriented, minimalist design elements that stay out of the way of the user, key filters to narrow search, saved searches, alerts, etc. It's even almost entirely flat aesthetically! You could do a completely surface level reskin of Craigslist and it would appear, from a UX/UI perspective, to be a totally modern interface. I think people see the older visual aesthetic and assume that it's not in line with modern UX best practices, but it largely is! Again home page is excluded here. I think that's still the way it is for familiarity/nostalgia reasons, because they have made tons of changes to the main search UI but left the home page basically untouched.
The trends that it doesn't keep up with are mostly technological rather than UX/UI.
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Right, which is great: because CL forces folks to say whether they're a private owner or a dealer you can filter for those properties . And not hidden and tucked away either: it's the absolutely very first top-most set of options on the search results page. See those three [all] [owner] [dealer] buttons? Click "owner". You're welcome.
I've always wondered: what is the mechanism keeping people honest about being owner vs dealer?
Whenever I'm buying something on CL, like say a car, I always ask the person who answers the phone: "I'm calling about the car. Tell me X about it."
If they reply "Which car?" then you've reached a dealer, not an owner.
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As I noted above, not as much of a problem here in LA, but I totally believe you that it's true elsewhere. And honestly, I'm probably missing some great stuff not perusing FB and OfferUp. But there's one simple, guiding principle that I'm always following. And that's refusing to reactivate my FB account.
Much like 25 years ago when I said to myself, "there's nothing on the internet that I need to see so badly that I'll install RealNetworks", I'll put stuff on the curb with a "free" sign before I'll reactivate my long-deactivated FB account (or buy new, depending on the direction of the transaction).
We don't have craigslist where I live in Europe, and I miss it. Instead it's an endless parade of for-profit services like olx.
I tell people about craigslist and it's alien to them, this idea that something on the internet could be managed to be run by a dozen people and not be changed.
It's not even the simplicity that is so appealing to me, but that you get this feeling that it is a totally neutral platform. Like air, you don't see it but it's there. And nobody is trying to put perfume in it.
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I doubt if he’s typical of people working at Craigslist.
A billion split ten ways is still a decent chunk of pocket change. Clearly there's money in Craigslist, regardless of how it has been apportioned.
has != earns
Or another way, a choice of a 10 year contract to do X worth 100k/annual take-home with 1m delivered at start, or an unchanging biweekly paycheck. Would the biweekly need to be higher to make it more attractive than the one-time payment or could it be lower yet still be the favored choice.