For example my side hobby is old Volkswagens. Since they have no way to categorize vehicles that are for sale, I have a few bookmarks with crazy search strings. VW + (1951|1952|1953.. etc)
Add to that fact that you can only search one section of craigslist at a time, I have crazy search string bookmarks for like 5 sections of craigslist. I'd like to see a craigslist central where my searches span states and regions.
Other then that I love the dead simple UI and no ads.
They pretty much ignore the simple tenant of web design:
make it dead simple for new users
and powerful enough for the power-users*
It's sad, but it's the best place for apartments in nyc.. and the listings are incredibly polluted: apartments listed in the wrong neighborhoods, without a location, lies about nearness to subways ("steps from the subway!" - but when you look up the intersection they list [if they list it], it's a 10 minute bus-ride away from the nearest train).. flagging doesn't seem to help any, either - they just repost the same ad, over and over again...
*In Craigslist terms, this of course is the peruser, not the poster.
Well, that's one possible solution down. Maybe there are some others?
CL seems to feel that doing anything at all to fight the asshats just results in giving the asshats more toys to play with... and for the obvious solutions, that's true. What they need are some non-obvious solutions - which might require them to spend a little more money than they're making today.
For example my side hobby is old Volkswagens. Since they have no way to categorize vehicles that are for sale, I have a few bookmarks with crazy search strings. VW + (1951|1952|1953.. etc)
Add to that fact that you can only search one section of craigslist at a time, I have crazy search string bookmarks for like 5 sections of craigslist. I'd like to see a craigslist central where my searches span states and regions.
Other then that I love the dead simple UI and no ads.