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But you still can't search remote jobs, or any jobs without specifying exact town...
I don't get why you can't search for anything across the towns. If I'm looking for something hard to find but is reasonably shippable, I might want to take the risk of a trusting the seller or work out some escrow type thing.
The main problem Craigslist still has is that it does not have an official mobile app which is actually why I started using a competitors service. It's a lot easier on a phone to endlessly scroll through items via an app then it is to go to the CL website. CL is fine when I'm sitting down in front of a computer but if I'm on the bus I want to just be able to use my thumb to quickly flip through.
They didn't even have a map on their real estate listings for a long time, which is ridiculous.
I do my best to use any craigslist alternative available first these days. LetGo was good for me.
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Or perhaps Craig simply understands his business better than you do. Are the loudest users the ones providing him with the most profit? If not, then why not ignore them? Would being involved as a true middleman leave them more open to liability when things go south? If so, why open yourself to that risk if you are already making profit? If you really think CL is so under-utilized, why hasn't a larger company bought t…
Take a look at Ebay's acquisition attempt on CL. CL wasn't interested. Also, it's not about listening to loud users. It's about understanding whether your users (any of them) are willing to pay you to improve the site. And, the answer to that is a resounding yes.
Network effect, reliability, free, anonymous, ability to run without JavaScript. If Craigslist decided to modernize today, they could potentially disrupt the state of things on the internet. Facebook is trying to move in on their territory for sure. Unfortunately, I don't think they will. If a new-kid-on-the-block could offer anonymity, reliability, and free regional market based transactions, with preferably integra…
>Facebook is trying to move in on their territory for sure. Unfortunately, I don't think they will. Why "unfortunately"? This is a good thing. Facebook is horrible, in many different ways, and the last thing we need is to hand even more power over the internet to them. CL is "ugly", but it's fast and works great, and isn't filled with ads and tracking, something I definitely can't say about Facebook.
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I don't get why you can't search for anything across the towns. If I'm looking for something hard to find but is reasonably shippable, I might want to take the risk of a trusting the seller or work out some escrow type thing.
They have taken the explicit view that Craigslist is a local service. Providing cross-city functionality would undermine that view.
Back in the day, search engine home pages had a vast list of categories... Google just had only a text field to input what you wanted to search for. Google search won.