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Comment by collinvandyck76 | Hacker News Reader

Agreed about old.reddit.com. I feel pretty old saying this, but I really miss the days of straightforward web design. Everything now is so chaotic that I'm never really sure what clicking anything will do. It feels like design for the sake of design, not for the sake of the users.

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I'm still shocked Craigslist has survived, virtually unchanged, since 1996.

It's may not be the cleanest interface, but it's a nice reminder of the more utilitarian days.

IMHO Craigslist is a good example of a design that nailed it right from the start and avoided the temptation to redesign year after year. Choose a region, choose the category, enter your search and bam, there are your listings. It's all bookmarkable too. What a great website.

You're not wrong but they could really afford to improve the user experience without 'ruining the design'. Unless something's changed from what I remember

- the categories page is cluttered.

- results page is messy and annoying to parse.

- the site only supports plaintext posts and has an annoying POSTing funnel.

I haven't looked but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a QoL extension made to cover all the holes left by the 'nailed design'. It's good but not great, as no web design lasts forever.

It's still privately owned and the owners actively refuse to "modernize" it AFAIK.

Why would they? It works.

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