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Re:Bye Bye Craigslist by ndubya on Friday June 22, 2012 @06:06PM (#4149083)
Just out of curiosity, why would they not want you to use their classifieds? Unless I am missing something, they don't collect revenue for listings. I thought Craigslist was all about spreading good will. If Pad Mapper provides a more efficient way of spreading that good will, then why not?

As a user of PadMapper, I am very disappointed to see this happen. Craigslist is almost unusable if you don't know the area you are looking to move to.

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Re:Bye Bye Craigslist by dredmorbius on Friday June 22, 2012 @06:12PM (#4149113)
As best I can tell, it's a matter of corporate philosophy. Craigslist is predicated on local, person-to-person interactions. It has long taken pains to curtail uses of the system which allow aggregation of multiple CL local sites (there is, for example, no convenient way to search all of California for listings), or to include CL listings in third-party services.

As a long-time user of Craigslist, and a recent fan of padmapper, I'm disappointed, to say the least.

I do suspect it's time for some disruption in CL's space.

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