Seriously, though, Craigslist now seems to be an unstoppable testament to the power of network effects and general benevolence. The site feels like it was dragged out of 1993, stripped of all the animated.gif flaming skulls and starfield backgrounds, and dumped on the present. However, it is fast, even on devices without the chops for horrible flash and javascript monsters, unobtrusive, no in-your-face ads, and if it exists, you can find it.
The surprising thing is that all that "web 2.0" crap? Yeah, not that many people actually like it very much, especially not nerds (from what I've seen).
Craigslist is so popular because it just works there are no stupid buttons or widgets are anything that doesn't work on anything other than IE6 running on windows XP.
This is just my own experience, so bear with me here. I remember when digg first came out, I was on that site all day, every day reading stories, posting stories, commenting on stories etc. etc.
I think the problem with that is that it keeps an entire thread on a single page and since the first thread is long, if it's long enough to drag onto the second page, too, you have to skip a page to see what's beyond it. I just bumped my comments/page pref and rarely see multipage threads.
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Seriously, though, Craigslist now seems to be an unstoppable testament to the power of network effects and general benevolence. The site feels like it was dragged out of 1993, stripped of all the animated
I'm not at all surprised that it has termina
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The surprising thing is that all that "web 2.0" crap? Yeah, not that many people actually like it very much, especially not nerds (from what I've seen).
Craigslist is so popular because it just works there are no stupid buttons or widgets are anything that doesn't work on anything other than IE6 running on windows XP.
This is just my own experience, so bear with me here.
I remember when digg first came out, I was on that site all day, every day reading stories, posting stories, commenting on stories etc. etc.
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Change your /. prefs. Other than the sometimes lame colors they use, I don't see any of that silliness, once I'm logged in.
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Change your /. prefs. Other than the sometimes lame colors they use, I don't see any of that silliness, once I'm logged in.
Alas, it still sometimes slips through. The firehose and metamoderation interfaces are particularly lame that way.
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