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Old Technologies Never Die, They Just Don’t Get Updated (2010)

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It's unclear why lawyers still consider fax signatures to be valid. There are no security features in fax to support that claim.

There is something better than security features: Case Law. Fax signatures are acceptable because judges have consistently ruled that they are. Sure a judge might agree that your emailed signature is also acceptable. But do you want to be the one to take the risk?

Most places now accept e-signatures these days. But there was a time when it was unknown how a judge would rule if one was in question.

Google: hold my beer.

Kind of like the decline of Craigslist. It never really died out, but it also never really updated itself for the mobile era. In the end it didn't have the cultural impact that it could have.

I didn't know Craigslist declined - what replaced it?

Kijiji? Maybe that's just in Canada

I know in Vancouver Craigslist is still more popular

I don't think that Craigslist declined exactly, but nextdoor and facebook marketplace took a chunk of the local used market.

The people who still use Craigslist are the ones you want, though. Facebook marketplace is packed full of idiots in my experience. People who don't show up to meet, people who put out ridiculously low offers for things, people who need their hands held through every step of a transaction.

Craigslist generates a lot less replies, that's certain. But at least the replies have a decent chance of going somewhere useful.

FOSTA/SESTA was a big hit to Craigslist as well.

But I love that Craigslist didn't update. I hate the new mobile interfaces... The crisp UI of the 1990s without flash (or JS or HTML5) everywhere[1]...

...maybe that means I'm old. So you're probably right.

[1]Craigslist definitely uses modern web design now, but maintains the aesthetic of 1990s pages.

Craigslist works great on mobile Firefox.

I'm disappointed that Craigslist charges people to post certain ads now. Seems all the more likely a competitor will outdo them at this point just on fronts like that - people would rather see ads than pay money. Interface is fine to me.

Pretty sure craigslist serves a mobile site. Search results are formatted to fit my mobile screen and I can "swipe" left or right through the photos.

Craiglist's traffic didn't decline because it wasn't updated to have 50,000 dependencies and a pretty UI, it declined because of FOSTA.

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