People that say Craigslist is broken are utterly, incomprehensibly, wrong. Its an ugly website. It lacks features people on this website think it needs. But average people love it AS IS. The tone of this article makes it seem like Craigslist killed the newspaper industry-and paints Craig as the bad guy. Newspapers failed to adapt. Full period, stop. Craig invented a tiny website for his neighborhood and it went crazy popular and spread across the country. His product isn't what we want-but it is what he and most of the people using it want.
For me the site nearly causes physical pain to look for anything specific on. For every non-tech person I know, they still think it's the best site ever made, and some of them sit on it all day like facebook addicts.
And I'll be damned, but when I wanted to get rid of some trash in my house that I thought someone else might've found useful, I had the ad up in 20 minutes. Before the sun went down, all of it was gone and I had a couple of $20s in my pocket.
I didn't have every move monetized, they didn't make me pay per message after the 3rd response, and I'm pretty sure they actually deleted my ad [at some point] after I pressed delete. I trust Newmark's stewardship, and hopefully this Padmapper thing shakes them up enough to introduce a non-intrusive interface for apartment hunting that makes my head hurt less.
