![]() ![]() Craigslist’s response was not to add a complex moderation algorithm, but to remove the category for adult material removing their support of such services, but still placing the onus on the user to self-moderate. Infrequently, Craigslist comes under fire for the number of illicit services that people advertise on it. If all sites on the internet were like Craigslist, we would all be out of a job. It has no logo no branding no fancy CSS and aside from the ad category taxonomy, all the content is user generated and largely unmoderated. A site that’s in the global top 150 – top 20 in the USA – has no design work. Estimates suggest the site gets 50 billion views a month and hosts 100 million adverts at a time. This iconic layout hasn’t changed much since the service first went onto the internet and while Twitter and Facebook update their interface – to common dismay – every six months, Craigslist is entirely resistant to change.ĭespite this, Craigslist is the 121st most popular site in the world, according to Amazon’s Alexa rankings (nothing to do with the voice assistant). When you open the site, you just see a grid list of categories to click through on an otherwise-blank page. The site began to ask a small fee to post job adverts and that was enough to support its minimal running costs.Ī search engine and a few other features were added at this time, but otherwise, the site was nothing more than its name implied – just a list of user-written adverts no colours, no images, no logo. By the dawn of the millennium, Craigslist had become so popular that Craig quit his job to work on the site full time, and local versions were rolled out to cities worldwide. ![]()
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