Haven't other's tried implementing new UIs for craigslist, only to be "shot down" by craigslist? [things like this were mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=963561 ]
In other news: it looks like flippity.com changed to working as an eBay search engine (found after following link in what I referenced above), interesting.
Craig Newmark himself laid out what concerns he might (or might not) have. Craiggers architecture meets Craigs standard of not putting a load on CL to host the data. Here's Craig's own quote on Quora:
Craig Newmark, customer service rep & founder
33 votes by Rodney Pearce, June Lin, Ludi Rehak, (more)
"Actually, we take issue with only services which consume a lot of bandwidth, it's that simple."
I'm having a hard time seeing how this is better than Craigslist itself. Also, need to lose the animations - they're useless eye candy and it just slows down the UI.
Perhaps you could elaborate a bit on how it's not better than craigslist.
Also, twitter, kayak, hipmunk etc. all take advantage of UI animations quite similar to the ones used here. A bit more complex than simply changing the color of a car ;)
It certainly is an impressive UI, but the search function doesn't seem to be as effective as the one on Craigslist itself. For example, when I searched for 1 bedroom apartments on Craigslist in my area, I got 18 results, all of them for 1 bedroom apartments. When I used Craiggers, I got 9 results, half of them for 2 bedroom apartments.
I don't know if this is a limitation of the API or of Craiggers' search, but either way, a good UI is useless without good data to back it up.
Finally, I don't think Craigslist's UI is actually that terrible. I think its rather refreshing to have a site that simply displays information as a set of HTML links, rather than trying to stuff an entire application into the browser. It doesn't seem to be a popular way of making things these days, but I wish more web sites would try it.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 47.1 ms ] threadHaven't other's tried implementing new UIs for craigslist, only to be "shot down" by craigslist? [things like this were mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=963561 ]
http://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-anyone-built-any-products-on-...
Craig Newmark, customer service rep & founder 33 votes by Rodney Pearce, June Lin, Ludi Rehak, (more) "Actually, we take issue with only services which consume a lot of bandwidth, it's that simple."
Also, twitter, kayak, hipmunk etc. all take advantage of UI animations quite similar to the ones used here. A bit more complex than simply changing the color of a car ;)
I don't know if this is a limitation of the API or of Craiggers' search, but either way, a good UI is useless without good data to back it up.
Finally, I don't think Craigslist's UI is actually that terrible. I think its rather refreshing to have a site that simply displays information as a set of HTML links, rather than trying to stuff an entire application into the browser. It doesn't seem to be a popular way of making things these days, but I wish more web sites would try it.