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ft_··on Ask HN: Competing with eBay and Craigslist?
I bought 2 phones on craigslist and both were stolen, so I wasnt able to activate them with the carrier. This is why I thought it might be better to remove the anonymity (it will probably be a lot easier now that people are used to giving their real names online...)

But if a substantial part of the market is stolen goods, than yeah there's no point because nobody would use it.

ft_··on Ask HN: Competing with eBay and Craigslist?
Very true. Actually, I've been trying to do a "craigslist killer" for quite sometime now.

Everyone complains about cl, but it seems like people don't really like other alternatives that pop-up (most probably because of the lack of sellers and buyers...)

ft_··on Ask HN: Competing with eBay and Craigslist?
> User-driven tagging would be a boon

You're right, it would really help with the spam and making sure that you find the right product easily.

ft_··on Why Discourse uses Ember.js
Thanks for the info!
ft_··on Why Discourse uses Ember.js
Very interesting post!

"Additionally, we do some server side rendering, which is much easier with string templates because we don’t have to boot a whole PhantomJS environment."

Does it mean that google is able to crawl a discourse page even when it's using client-side mvc ? Can anybody tell me how it works ? Thanks.