Craigslist status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Craigslist Issues Reports

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  JRP (@joeparado) reported 52 seconds ago

  @SubxNews Maxwell Street was like Craigslist on the west side. You can get anything you want there. City closed this down because the only money they were making is from permits & license fees. They hated the fact that it was cash-based and decentralized.

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  Kanika Tolver (@KanikaTolver) reported 3 minutes ago

  @SymoneBeez I never had issues with buying electronics on Craigslist. Lol

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  Possessed Poultry (@ppoultryd72349) reported 5 minutes ago

  @fckfmrocks Not sure how relevent this is but it made think of something that happened years ago. I saw this guy holding up a sign at a stoplight and almost everyone was rolling down their windows and giving him money. When I finally got close enough to see what was written on the sign he was holding, I figured out why. The sign said: "Why Lie? I Need a Beer". I acutally used this same method as a title on a craigslist post I made once when I was looking for employment one time. It worked and I actually got a job offer by doing it. LOL

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 6 minutes ago

  A solo dev opened Flutter, spent 3 weeks on it, and shipped a ride-hail app a casual user couldn't tell apart from Uber. Yellow branding. Live map. GoabX, GoabXL, GoabBike tiers with prices. Visa 4242 on file. Home, Work, Airport saved. "Confirm GoabX" button. The whole flow. Pause at 0:08. Look at the split screen. Simulator on the right running the sign-up screen. auth_screen.dart on the left — the actual Flutter source with _Chip extending StatelessWidget, _CircleBtn wrapping a GestureDetector, BoxDecoration in black and white, Icon at 17.sp. That's not a mockup. That's a shipped auth flow. What the clone has: → Flutter frontend, one codebase, iOS and Android at once → Google Maps + custom route rendering → Ride-tier chips (X / XL / Bike) → Card-on-file with Visa masking → Google + Apple + Facebook social login stubs What the clone doesn't have: → 5 million active drivers → Regulatory clearance in 10,000 cities → A $60 billion payout rail already routed → Insurance underwriters who approved the safety model → Every dispute-resolution playbook Uber wrote from 2012 to now That's the entire product. Here's what nobody in the "just clone it" space is saying out loud: the interface was never Uber's moat. The moat is a two-sided marketplace with 5 million drivers who show up at 3 AM when you tap a button. You can build the button in Flutter in 3 weeks. You can't build the 5 million drivers in 3 lifetimes. The old loop is dead: study successful app → clone the frontend → deploy on the App Store → wonder where the users went. The new loop: study successful app → identify the offline-supply moat → build the supply first → treat the app as the last 5%. The point worth arguing about: the hardest part of building an Uber isn't Uber. It's convincing a stranger with a car to log in on Tuesday at 3 AM when it's raining. Everything else is a Figma file. I know a founder who spent 18 months writing beautiful marketplace code and shipped to zero drivers. Meanwhile a friend of mine ran Craigslist ads for 2 weeks, found 40 house cleaners in one city, matched them with 60 buyers, took 15%. He didn't need a Flutter app. He had a Google Form. The interface is free. The supply is the whole company. Literally.

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  Kevin McCallister (@realKevinP) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Shidokado1 That was terrible back then. I moved and struggled to find anyone who sold ****. Had to buy it off craigslist ads. lol terrible situations and tons of time wasted.

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  Ryan S. Powers (@RyanSPowers) reported 8 minutes ago

  @NickPocheVOTE Reminds me of the H St Streetcar. My first landlord in DC pitched the streetcar in the Craigslist ad (!!!) in 2009. I moved to Boston for a year in 2011 & back in 2013 and it still didn’t open for another three years. And then shut down for good 10 years after that…

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  Dhawal Yogesh Bhanushali (@imkin) reported 14 minutes ago

  @shiv_cybersurg This is true but also not entirely. There are people who would buy and take (like me) but cannot "find you". the apps like @OLX are full of store folks. In US this is how craigslist was born. it has its own problems but I have sold and give away so many things over there.

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  Marcia Goldstein (@robbiemay33) reported 15 minutes ago

  @SacAppraiser I don’t understand. So via Airbnb no problem; via Craigslist scam. But why did it matter if the sign was outside? Because scammed guests would arrive and realize they’d not be getting in?

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  Celine (@Celinetruths01) reported 15 minutes ago

  @rich_toronto It’s a mess, she bought the house two years ago and the builder buried a substandard plastic pipe in the basement. It developed a crack and pressure from the incoming city main eventually burst it. They lost their carrier AC and everything else stored down there. They are living in an apartment till this gets sorted out. The builder is being sued and the children have to be driven miles to go to school now. My son-in-law owns an underwriter firm and he’s having trouble with the insurance company. Be careful your insurance doesn’t send some character off of Craigslist to fix your flood damage.

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  Kevin Ricoy 🌎 (@therealricoy) reported 16 minutes ago

  10 marketing tips: 1. If you can’t own the “big thing” in people’s minds, own something else. #2 in a market doesn’t win by claiming the same ground as the leader. Study Apple’s “Think Different”. They claimed creativity and differentiation. Own a word, a feeling, a niche. 2. Superior technology does not win. Craigslist, an ugly webpage from 1995, beat polished rivals. Nintendo ships weaker hardware than Sony and Microsoft on purpose, and the Wii outsold both. The Switch did it again. VHS beat the technically better Betamax. Minecraft looks like it was carved out of soap and it necame the best selling game of all time. None of these won by being the most impressive product. They won because networked users became their de facto sales force. 3. Popularity adds to those network effects. Sociologists once conducted an experiment with music. In some versions of the experiment people could see how many times each song had been downloaded. When downloads were visible, hits consolidated. People gravitated toward what they saw that others liked. Many people came to Solana because it is where they saw everyone else going, whether for memecoins, NFTs, or otherwise (and were delighted by the best UX in crypto). Perceived popularity created more popularity, which resulted in momentum and increased network effects. 4. The goal of marketing is not simply awareness. Awareness is the top of a funnel. The ultimate goal is happy customers who become advocates and do your marketing for free. Shouting at strangers is only useful to convert them into customers, making your existing users so happy they do the shouting for you is arguably an even larger part of the equation for success. Word of mouth is the strongest form of marketing. People buy products they see people they trust believing in. 5. Network effects compound and build moats Newspapers didn’t die because news was easier to read online, but because classifieds, their real moat, got eaten by Craigslist. Phones and chatrooms were worthless until enough people joined that joining became worth it. People bought PCs to be compatible with everyone else on PCs. If your product has no network advantage, you’re stuck competing on features , and features are very easily copied. 6. Dominate a niche, then expand outward. A product for everyone is a product targeting no one. Crypto is a top tier offender. New projects try to conquer the world before winning a single existing user base where they already live. If you’re building a new global financial system, start with remittance users, traders, creators getting tipped, etc. Win them completely. Then move to the adjacent niche. 7. Every company should become, at least in part, a media company. Go direct. Build owned distribution. Renting your audience from platforms and press means someone else owns it. Study Apple, Nintendo, Google, Sony, etc. 8. People want to stand FOR something. There’s a fine line between naming problems and being a cynic. Spend more time describing what you are than what you’re not. If you criticize competitors, make it clearly in service of defining yourself. If you do stand against something, Wall Street, banks, whatever, make the alternative you represent clear. 9. You’ll get bored of your message before the market ever hears it. Your team will be sick of the tagline before most of the market has seen it once. People often need to see your brand and USP 7+ times before it even starts to exist in their mind beyond “an ad i saw”. Consistency compounds along with network effects. 10. Be human. People bond with people. Winning brands today aren’t the ones best at drilling jargon into your skull about being cheap and convenient. They’re the ones that feel human. Admit mistakes instead of spinning them. Customers whose problem gets handled honestly will often end up MORE loyal. An accessible founder who owns an L in public earns more trust than an ivory tower brand. People forgive fallibility but not fakeness.

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  🇺🇸🇻🇦🏴‍☠️🥖✒️ (@dailyprandium) reported 17 minutes ago

  Decentralized media is a boom for factions, special interest, partisan extremism, and constructing reality to divide and conquer US Old media had 30 years to fix their houses but they never got over the Craigslist disruption to their sacred classifieds payola

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  Michael Fischer (@Holden_Rye_) reported 17 minutes ago

  @MrHodl Don’t ever mention this in a Fred Krueger Space. All the influencers and follower collectors will think you’re trying to one-up their clout. I mentioned buying Bitcoin off Craigslist in Virginia Beach, and they missed the entire point of the discussion. Instead, they started arguing about what region of the planet Bitcoin started in. As if all of us nerdy-*** hackers weren’t already connected through BBS, IRC, and other comms and didn’t know about Bitcoin. lol We’re the same nerds who’ve spent decades keeping the defenses up. Attack. Fix. Attack. Fix. It’s always been cat and mouse.

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  Parit (@KjdParit) reported 20 minutes ago

  I posted an ad on Craigslist last month looking for a roommate to split the rent on my downtown apartment. A quiet, polite guy named Leo moved in three weeks ago. Yesterday, while he was out, a process server knocked on our door and handed me a summons for a $200,000 defaulted business loan. The loan was in my name. The co-signer? My new roommate. My hands shook as I read the court documents. I had only known Leo for twenty-one days! I ran into his bedroom and started searching his desk for answers. Hidden behind his closet organizer was a locked briefcase. I forced the latch open with a screwdriver. Inside were five different state IDs, all with Leo's photo—but under five different names. Including my dead brother's name.

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  shredded Denim (@denimneverdies) reported 20 minutes ago

  @laurasukas I don't give a **** what they're *saying*, I care that, for example, when the government shut down adult services on Craigslist, death was the result

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  saying arigato at uniqlo checkout (@bovineflu) reported 25 minutes ago

  @RedGreenBC we lost something when they shut down craigslist personals. only the pure of heart would use it

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  Karma’s Suppository (@realPhantomFuck) reported 26 minutes ago

  @benwegmann I’ve sold nine phones on Swappa and probably a dozen things on OfferUp and Craigslist over the years, I’ve never once had a problem. I’ve tried selling things on eBay TWICE and both times the seller attempted to scam me. eBay and PayPal are a cesspit

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  Isla Ellis (@IslaEllis7) reported 26 minutes ago

  @LasVegasSun Spay/neuter saves lives. I wish Animal Control would shut down those on craigslist selling puppies and kittens. Just enforce the spay/neuter laws in Las Vegas.

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  FeelGoodTales (@feelgoodtale) reported 27 minutes ago

  Almost five years ago, I started searching for a dog. I found a Craigslist post from a family rehoming their late father’s German Shepherds. He’d been a *******. The dogs needed homes. I went there for a specific female. But she was already gone. They introduced me to her sister — Sabrina. Thin, shut down, unsure of everything. Still, I couldn’t walk away. Something in her still reached for connection, even through fear. She came home with me that day. Now, she’s ten years old — but still acts like a pup. Loves the river. Hikes. Long naps in the sun. She’s everything I didn’t know I needed. I didn’t just rescue her. She met me where I was and pulled me forward.

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  Janice Phillips (@CatCrazyJan1) reported 32 minutes ago

  @its_The_Dr I love it. When the convid happened, I would say "I'll walk off into the woods naked before I comply". Well, there's a river that is a five minute walk from my home. I'll launch a boat first. I have two, but they're just little fishing boats. *searches craigslist for a broke down pontoon to remodel*

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  chlo (@chlooaayy) reported 38 minutes ago

  @SacAppraiser This is a huge problem in San Diego, every single listing on Craigslist for rentals is a scam. So unfortunate.

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  Steel-Toed Turbo Nerd (@PaToFe4) reported 39 minutes ago

  @r_zthai lol right? At 20, I’d reverse engineer the damn board in Eagle if it would save a few bucks. Now? Ehhhh. Nah, thanks. Read your post this morning and thought “well ****, why don’t I?” Got me to actually diagnose the problem, and I snapped some pics of the washer + dryer so the missus can throw ‘em up on Craigslist now. Done deal. Buying a new one was arguable if it was just some crap that froze the pump. Burned out motor controller means I’d be waiting around until next week to see if that was even really the root of the problem. Or at the very least I’d have to dump another couple hours into verifying everything that gets plugged into the board is okay. On top of… finding a laundry mat while I waited, I guess?

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  Gator Jay (@stupiddretard) reported 41 minutes ago

  @meaghancates You’re a 5/10 egirl I’ve seen broken refrigerators on Craigslist worth more than you

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  Julius Ilg 🪸 (@juliusilg) reported 42 minutes ago

  finding the right one-liner for Shack took only years 🫠 by now we must‘ve changed it 20+ times „C2C Marketplace“ „Anything to Anyone“ „P2P trade network“ „Human protocol for trade“ „Agentic (re)commerce network“ „Silk Road is back“ „C2C fiat and crypto enabled“ „AI consumer trade app“ „C2C running on Memes & AI“ … the hard part was that I knew what we‘re not no eBay, Vinted, Facebook marketplaces, Craigslist, Uber, Amazon etc so we couldn‘t use the usual C for Y „the eBay for Collectibles“ or the „Uber for trade“ I think we‘re finally there and not sure what took me so long: „building a home for regular sellers“ why do I like this so much? a) It‘s tech agnostic. We use whatever we think is best. b) it describes the solution and the problem c) a 5yr old can understand it d) it captures our key priority: regular sellers e) it‘s not tied to a category or vertical, just the desire to sell smth f) it also clearly implies what we‘re not: for professional sellers. We don‘t want to be the next whatnot, amazon or compete against any of them g) it conveys trust and human connection (home) h) it implies continuity and a long term mission (building) the simplest way to think about Shack is a testing ground for smth you own and want to sell. atoms, bits, time compared to setting up a business first or creating a website or find the right vertical website/app you can just take/create a photo and put it up for sale on Shack for the world to explore. maybe your test turns into a business at some point and then you can do all the admin around it and switch to the unlimited professional selling options out there. Shack is aiming to be the easiest point of entry if you‘re not a business and just want to sell or explore selling, with as little friction as possible what will happen if we succeed and users around the world are putting anything they want to sell online? buyers will follow as the supply will be so uniquely differentiated to all the commoditized professional selling options and most importantly prices will undercut any professional as a regular seller has none of the overhead or is selling something that is depreciating or would have been thrown away winning will prevent waste and preserve value the eCommerce industry continues to drive regular sellers into private whatsapp buy/sell groups or offline by prioritizing pros, buyers and vertical solutions (ten apps for regular sellers compared to one) in parallel the creator economy is accelerating and technology is deflating global P2P trade costs. a solution like Shack could capture multiple secular tailwinds and the best part: connect people around the globe decreasing isolation and strengthening community.

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  Matt James (@mattejames) reported 46 minutes ago

  In the same way that Craigslist was a generic solution to the problems better served by more tailored solutions like Airbnb, TaskRabbit, and other marketplaces.

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  samcam (@samtothecam) reported 46 minutes ago

  @Tammy69498676 I look at craigslist free at least ten times a day with a 131 mile range on. Any free pile on the road is in trouble if I spot it. Got a lot of shelves this way lately.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 48 minutes ago

  Independent used-car dealers lose buyers to whoever replies first. Built Carbloom to fix that. The AI agent answers every lead, books test drives, and reprices stale listings across Marketplace, Craigslist and CarGurus — 24/7, without an enterprise contract. Live soon.

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  Only God Can Cancel Me 🖤👁️✨ (@vocevolo93) reported 49 minutes ago

  @FlourishingThru I buy most all my furniture looking on Craigslist or driving past little mom & pop thrift or antique stores. I got lucky like 15 years ago & found MCM dresser set on Craigslist that had a price error & they honored it. If I tried to buy this set now it’s prob worth 4K.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 58 minutes ago

  Web design is won by whoever calls first. Prybell makes sure that's you — scanning Google, Yelp, Facebook, Reddit and Craigslist in your area for businesses with broken or missing sites, and anyone asking for a designer. Name, number, pitch angle, instant ping. Coming soon.

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  GenX Bitcoiner (@GenXBitcoiner) reported 58 minutes ago

  @88_sats @YouTube Years ago when CraigsList started charging for job postings, the number of postings went down 90% and including all of the fake job ads.

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  Efe (@efexeth) reported 59 minutes ago

  Let me give you my take about the fud some people are on about @RealBucketShop First off, all of this is hand-made :) not written by some language model, and not addressed to those living organisms who are trying to make a living out of throwing dirt at others with a broken heart and soul. if they take what they can take, thats on them. If you want to learn how cool it is to KNOW, and protect yourself from false information, continue reading. if you dont, just stop right here, and all the best for ya. It will be so easy to comprehend as I will give solid examples. Regarding "similarities". Real edge in businesses whether its small or big, primarily comes from "variety" and "solving more problems", the ones who trusts their position like it doesnt change, and dont improve, were cannibalized at the end of the day.. Let me give you some examples, since im some 40+ year old.. Zoom.. It came after Skype (never heard?), when video meetings were booming.. but after that, Zoom made it way simpler, more reliable, more businessy. Photo sharing.. It already existed on Facebook, but Instagram made it mobile first, visuals first, and built an entire social network out of it. Fun fact. Social networking was also present before Facebook, and people used it for long years, Myspace! Do you know Myspace? It was SUPERB!.. Moving on.. Google, you think there was no search engine before? Have you ever heard of Altavista, or even Yahoo? No? Okay. Now you know Google made it faster, and performed much better at ranking results, and started pioneering.. Gmail is also after Yahoo mail, note that as well.. (same mechanics? :)) not finished.. another one most of you never heard, is Napster. Do you know what Napster was? Digital music was already there, but new SaaS models, like Spotify, Youtube Music, etc. today is ruling that environment. Again, not finished.. Have you ever heard Craigslist? People were posting rentals, jobs, the whole shebang.. meaning, home and room rentals were already there, but AIRBNB still appeared, no? have you ever heard the founders story? how they got influenced? INFLUENCED? thats your homework. go check it out. hint: craigslist :) Another hilarious part, fudding with UI.. oh, dear. just know how they want to play with perceptions, living in spider web, and still decide on your own. examples, right. uniswap, sushiswap, pancakeswap and tons of other dexs REALLY USE SO DIFFERENT UIs WOW! so they dont use basic token in and out swap card because there are soooo many ways to present a sensible swap? :) instagram, tiktok, yt shorts? no? full screen vertical media with engagement button on the side? no? no? but no? :) amazon? and rest 93842943829423834298432 e-commerce sites? image to title to cart to purchase, almost identical listing, and flow? again, no? :) okay and the last one.. coinbase, kraken and binance. maybe they are structurally similar too, because order books, charts, balances, and what not have natural places to go? but really. one thing. Samsung, after Apple? no? :) take good care of yourself, and your family. all the best.