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 integration with Monero, it would be a killer app for the crypto industry.
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.
Of course...there's also the ever present threat of a new social network growing up with another generation.
I'd be more concerned that someone is going to use the likely roll back of NN in america to dethrone CL.
Correct. Here in Stockholm no one knows about CL (even if there is one for our city at https://stockholm.craigslist.se/). Just about all you can see there are some robot spam listings for medical cannabis.
Over here https://www.blocket.se/ has near monopoly position, even though it's quite expensive. They got here first, it's as simple as that. http://sv.shpock.com/ is trying hard to establish a presence, but it's seems to be going slow.
I highly doubt more than 1% of Craigslist's userbase cares about this. The reasons are simple: first mover advantage and network effects.
Im sure that you can ask people on craigslist for a phone number, meet in a public place, etc.
I think the (slightly) higher threshold for creating even a throwaway account elsewhere makes for a better experience in the long run. I needed to get rid of a lot of stuff in the past couple months and fb/nextdoor/freecycle was more productive in a week than craigslist was in two months.
Same story for paid job listings on craigslist - I just put one up a few weeks ago. I'm starting to find that it's getting worse as time goes by for things like restaurant jobs. I've slowly started using other ways to find new hires, and next time craigslist won't be on my radar unless everything else falls through. Not that my few hundred bucks a year is a big deal for them, but I kinda expect better and get better from competitors.
Genuinely asking - is that still an important quality as of today?
Sure you weren't using the basic html version? Because I've been using gmail since it was invite only and it always had a loading spinner.
My 70+ parents just listed and sold dozens of items in their spring cleaning - first time they used CL and they did it without my help. They might have had more problems if CL was "jazzed up".
JS is absolutely not required for any of it.
I think it's a little bit awkward to not use put, patch, delete... I wonder however if my server must follow the same technique, if not how to wire a delete endpoint to handle a form post and so on. I'll try to handle a form using only get and post sometime just to see how it works. Thank you!
I've always hated put/patch/delete because it tends to result in data centric UI's instead of workflow centric ones.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Forms
https://web.archive.org/web/20110117085131/http://w3fools.co...
Even if they have fixed all these instances since then, that all those errors were ever produced is a bad sign, especially when there were better alternatives even then.
When I learned HTML4 forms and CGI, javascript was solely the domain of input validation if it was available.
Okay I definitely feel old.
Anything you do on the client side via JavaScript can be bypassed by the end user and provides no guarantees about the input you receive.
I misread this as "decided to monetize today" and interpreted an IPO.
Has Craigslist ever thought about this?
Any thoughts?
Why on earth would they ever want to go public?
1. $300MM in profit each year, which has risk of going up or down.
2. Sell company for $6.3 billion ($300 x 21) and walk.
Note: I don't have time to investigate why Bloomberg is telling me EBay PE ratio is 21, vs Google Finance is 5x.