How would you improve CraigsList?
We all use it, but Craig refuses to improve it. There are many things they could do to improve the service, but since it hasn’t changed much in a decade, we shouldn’t hold our breath. But if you were to build a better CraigsList, what would it be able to do?
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Every posting would have a geolocation which would be displayed on a Google Map. Y’know like EVERY OTHER SITE BUILT SINCE 2001!
More than four photographs with full quality versions?
Am I alone here?
I honestly dont have any problems with it. I mean the site doesnt look great or anything, but it doesnt bother me. Its simple and to the point.
I agree, it needs improvement. The need to move away from the 1997ness of it to a 2008ness. The can keep the layout (or tweak it slightly), but it does need to move into the new era of the web to make it more robust and useful than it already is. It’s good, but could be better.
Less pictures of old, naked men looking for a young bottom or fun couple. I know I could just not click on the pictures but I am too curious.
@jessturtle23 isnt that the best part of craigslist though? When your super bored just look through the adult section and LOL. The best is when you find people in your neighborhood looking to hook up.
oh man i love criagslist, i cant stop laughing
I just find it annoying that the nearest city to me that has a category on craigslist is St. Louis which I just don’t feel like drive 45 minutes to just to pick up a couple cds or whatever.
It should let you enter your own town.. or something.
I dunno, but I agree it’s very outdated. Many improvements can be made.
I think the best part is best-of-craigslist. It makes me laugh on the outside instead of cry on the inside like casual encounters does.
Make prostitution happen on the site…oh wait that happens.
I wish there was a way to “delete” from my view, all the listings I’ve looked at, but am not interested in. That way I don’t have to wade through all of the titles, and try to remember which ones I wanted to follow up on.
Either that or have a way to set them aside in a shopping list, or sidebar, of sorts.
I imagine this would make it a log-in site though… Hrmmmm..
It already is a log-in site actually, though it’s an optional, and well-hidden feature. It basically just lets you see all your postings in one place. Which brings me to the next thing I’d improve.
Remember where I live for crying out loud! Must I select SFBay and then drill down to San Francisco proper EVERY time I want to search for an apartment!? I don’t want to live on the Peninsula! Stop showing it to me!
@Jesse: thanks. That’s a big duh, on my part.
Remove the ads for cheap prostitutes and moldy sofas
mark: see my answer above =p
@aanuszek1 You can remove ads with Firefox and plug-in Ad Block Plus
in fact to be honest… I didn’t even know craigslist
lol, I turned off Ad Block Plus just now to check if there were ads on fluther XD
@Box
I Already use Ad Block with Firefox. I was referring to the postings for 10/hour prostitutes and free “only a little mold; you haul” sofas.
@aanuszek1
Funny story, I read your first comment as “Remove ads for prostitutes ” I was thinking banner ads, and you were being sarcastic and the “moldy sofas” postings I had broke it into two separate idea, I’m a dork, sorry.
@aanuszek1 that would be unfair to transtitutes and their johns. If they didn’t discount, they wouldn’t get half as much business.
Less porn. Maybe acually being able to make an account?
@uberbatman: Oh, you can. I didn’t know. Well than, less porn.
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