Re:Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years
by Gareth321 on Saturday September 17, 2022 @07:55AM
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I feel like their product development began with the question "how can we sell more ads" instead of "how can we make a good marketplace"?
Re:Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years
by asdff on Sunday September 18, 2022 @02:58AM
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Amazon suffers from this a little as well to be honest. Search something and pull up a page, search again and you are in this obscure category that has like 20% of the Thing A you are interesed on Amazon because some stuff is listed in other categories. Sometimes it also doesn't seem to respect my price ceilings on search filters.
Re:Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years
by 762236 on Friday September 16, 2022 @06:36PM
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Isn't Home Depot licensing Amazon's store logic? I don't remember why I have that impression, as I haven't been to Home Depot in ages, but for some reason it made me feel that Amazon was running their store.
Re:Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years
by elcritch on Friday September 16, 2022 @10:32PM
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I never heard anything like that. The Home Depot site doesn't feel much like Amazon's, but maybe they do and they just don't use it well. I have a friend who did some contract work for Home Depot and it sounded like they followed VP-empire-building-driven development.
For new stuff Amazon is huge and cluttered yet still manages to run circles around almost every other online store for similar reasons to what you listed. The only exception I’ve found is BH Photo and Video. But all the others like Walmart/Jet, Home Depot, Newegg (now) etc all just “don’t get it”.
Craig’s list really nails the simplicity and usefulness of online used markets. It still amazes me.