As a long time user of craigslist I disagree with the "bad product" characterization. I find their website extremely pleasant to use, much like google. When will people learn that content is king and all that flash/image/whatever crud may look great but rarely does anything but distract from the actual content.
But rather than asserting that it is a fine product (which it is, though I agree it could be made better), how about spelling out what it is that you think would make it better? I wouldn't be surprised if Jim and/or Craig reads this thread at some point.
I was on the fence about Craigslist's minimalism. Then I tried Flippity's search of Craigslist's data (the service that Craigslist just killed for no reason) and realized that an equivalent Craigslist search would have took me about ten times as long, manually searching through all the ads.
This isn't simplicity. This isn't minimalism. This is Ludditism, backed by a monopoly position. How many millions of hours are wasted every day because of Newmark's anti-market fetish?
And Jim and Craig have made it abundantly clear in interviews that they don't care about user feedback, so I don't expect anything to change.
But rather than asserting that it is a fine product (which it is, though I agree it could be made better), how about spelling out what it is that you think would make it better? I wouldn't be surprised if Jim and/or Craig reads this thread at some point.