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Craigslist: blocking a leech, or a feature?

Started by mathewi · 10 months ago

An interesting development at craigslist — in light of the debate that Tony “Deep Jive Interests” Hung and I have been having over the value of the site, and whether Craig and CEO Jim Buckmaster are making the most of the service — is a move by Craig ... Continue reading »

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  • Stu

    2 years ago

    So...where's the blogosphere outrage like we saw directed against Amazon/Alexa when they cut off the leechers at Alexaholic?
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  • Alex Beamish

    2 years ago

    Probably a better way to implement this add-on (in hindsight) would have been to demo the system to the higher-ups at craigslist and find out how they could work together, rather than setting up a service that causes an increase in the server traffic by a factor of 20.

    Alternatively, if Listpic had implemented a solution that only loaded the servers an additional 10%, but had added significant value, craigslist might have been much more open to the idea, and possibly even an acquisition.

    It sounds like the craiglist community liked the idea -- and since that's what is driving the site (mostly), it seems likely something like listpic will happen.
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  • Ed Kohler

    2 years ago

    Unaware of the bandwidth issues? That seems rather disingenuous. Someone capable of writing such an app would have a good feel for how much bandwidth is involved in serving all those images.
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