Bye Bye Craigslist

Re:Bye Bye Craigslist by juiceandjuice on Friday June 22, 2012 @06:43PM (#4149260)

To be fair to Craigslist, since everyone and their grandma uses it, I'd imagine a lot of users have underpowered computers, outdated browsers, and low bandwidth connections.

I've seen padmapper slow wayyyy down on my i7 macbook with 8GB ram, I can't imagine what it'd be like on grandma's 5 year old budget PC.

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Re:Bye Bye Craigslist by psc on Friday June 22, 2012 @06:57PM (#4149313)

Features can be added without alienating users with outdated tech. Just conditionally show the improved site only to users who can run it. It's a poor excuse, especially since Craigslist hasn't even tried to improve the layout of the site, which has no effect on load speed and compatibility.

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Re:Bye Bye Craigslist by olog-hai on Friday June 22, 2012 @07:36PM (#4149453)

The same is true of Facebook. That hasn't stopped them from evolving their design.

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Re:Bye Bye Craigslist by jonny_eh on Saturday June 23, 2012 @02:05AM (#4150184)

I don't see how the existence of padmapper could hurt the grandmas that use craigslist.org

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