On: Bringing Craigslist Back

[samstave]

BS.

Get over your analysis - this service is farking amazing and Craig is an idiot for trying to thwart it.

Craig has consistently chosen to sit on his hands and do nothing because he is to afraid to mess with the CL money pot.

Things evolve. CL has not evolved hardly at all and after 10 years + it is hurting people for its lack of change.

[rhizome → samstave]

How exactly is Craigslist "hurting people?"

[stcredzero → rhizome]

More that they're not benefitting their users as much as they could otherwise. (That is as good a reason for any for a website to give up.)

[samstave → rhizome]

I meant: hurting their experience and wasting their time, not harming people.

[rhizome → samstave]

Eh, works fine for me.

EDIT: Would you say that HN is hurting people through their choice to stick with a poorly-performing language for serving its website?

[samstave → rhizome]

Yes!

I hat "unknown/expired link" - It wastes my time and frustrates me when I just leave the page up for a time then click more and get that error. I also can't stand the URLs not being human readable.

[rhizome → samstave]

I can dig it, but you know that CL is extremely fast, right? Even in the oft-lamented interface, it's easy to go to the right place. Everybody can figure out Craigslist.