Craigslist Outage Map

Community Discussion

Tips? Frustrations? Share them here. Useful comments include a description of the problem, city and postal code.

Beware of "support numbers" or "recovery" accounts that might be posted below. Make sure to report and downvote those comments. Avoid posting your personal information.

Craigslist Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

• 
  Julius Ilg 🪸 (@juliusilg) reported 2 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.

• 
  Matt James (@mattejames) reported 2 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.

• 
  node33 (@x_esk_x) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Kintakus @RobotPerson78 I hear the cost for escorts has gone up from $25 per hand as was on Craigslist to $100k on 𝕏 or 60k if in San Francisco. As long as can afford it and not fording someone unwilling to do it and threaten them with guns and extortion probably can do and gets you in trouble for hiring escorts if not CEO or billionaire as extra risk

• 
  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

• 
  casey (@Casey_AF) reported 11 minutes ago

  FB marketplace just isn’t built like Craigslist was 10-15 years ago. Mfs be like I’ll get back to you if this deal doesn’t work out. Brother it’s first to show up with cash answer my questions this mf didn’t put down a deposit.

• 
  Ken (@Ken67547214) reported 13 minutes ago

  @PayNoTack @Bob_Smith Yeah, these "well established" standards are exactly the strings that tie everyone's hands, leading to this midwit mode collapse in the first place. Who established those standards, and did they work for JP Morgan or Jeffery Epstein? (inb4 no, I am not being hyperbolic) Bessent is a clown if he believes the things he says, and he is a liar otherwise. It would really not be hard to find someone more competent, like, on craigslist. Private finance itself is part of the problem. When Dodd Frank forced all of the loan sharks into the private credit market, they became rich enough to seem kind of legitimate. I realize that he has a different charter than walsh, but at a bare minimum, I would require that all government employees have the common goal of serving the american people.

• 
  CRAZY DAYS AND NIGHTS (@CrazyDaysPoster) reported 15 minutes ago

  Thursday, August 06, 2026 Today's Blind Items A Hairy Situation A lead actor and producer for a new CBS show recently had a Craigslist purchase go awry. The actor needed a hairpiece for a specific scene of the show he's starring in, so he began looking online for local listings. He saw a free toupee advertised, and he made plans to meet up with the seller to pick it up it. Soon after returning to set, he took the toupee and placed it down on a table next to the director's salad, running off right after to film a scene. After half an hour, the director came over to the table and found the "toupee" eating his lunch. It turned out that the toupee, was, in fact, a Peruvian long-haired guinea pig. The actor tried contacting the seller, who never responded. The guinea pig ended up getting adopted by the show's co-producer (who seemed unusually enthusiastic about his new pet), and costuming ended up buying an actual hairpiece for the show—one that won't steal the crew's lunches.

• 
  CMK (@ChristinaKilis) reported 18 minutes ago

  @ArmandoNDK It's freakin' amazing this weird chick is a U.S. Rep. Not putting woman down here by no means. But maybe @NancyMace would represent Craiglist better?

• 
  Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) reported 20 minutes ago

  Drew Houston on the growth hacks Dropbox used to acquire millions of users Dropbox founder Drew Houston reflects the distribution challenge most startups face in the early days: “You can buy all the AdWords in the world but if nobody’s searching for what you’re making, you have a problem.” Drew eventually landed on a two-step solution to solve Dropbox’s cold start problem. Step 1: make a product that people really love to use. “Good engineering and good design are part of it, but one of the ways I think about it is maximizing the probability that your customer ends up with a solved problem. That’s why Craigslist — which was started in the 1990s and doesn’t appear to have been updated since the 1990s — is by far the most successful business of its kind. You show up at Craigslist and you leave with your concert tickets or your casual encounter or whatever you’re looking for. Even though the design isn’t that great and it isn’t that hard of an engineering problem, it was unbelievably successful . . . [Distribution] starts with a great product and all of the marketing or tricks in the world won’t help you push a rock uphill.” Step 2: give people tools to spread the word “Two things drove the vast majority of our signups today. The first was we created this incentive-referral program where if I tell you about Dropbox you get some extra storage and I get some extra storage, which gave us this kind of currency to work with and people were just doing it for its own sake. People weren’t even using the extra space. They were just referring their friends because they got points. We’d now call it a gamification mechanic, even though I’m not sure that word was even around back then.” Drew continues: “The other thing we did was create this idea of shared folders where if I’m working on a shared project at work or if I want to share photos with my family, then all these new users are brought into the fold just by using the product . . . Now there’s whole body of art and science on how to do that, how consumer internet companies grow, and how viral growth works, but these things were instrumental to how we got started.” Source: @ECorner (Jun 2012)

• 
  cryptologik_🛰️ (@cryptologik_) reported 21 minutes ago

  @NBCSports These guys announcing the game are terrible. Did you hire them off Craigslist? They don't even seem very interested in the game.

• 
  peacefulwarrior (@peacefllwarrior) reported 22 minutes ago

  @BonnettsView @DisrespectedThe figuring out how to sell stuff without crackbook is my issue, as nobody uses craigslist in my town......frustrating

• 
  FAFO Farms (@FAFOFarmsTX) reported 26 minutes ago

  Sad news the calf did not make it. We brought him inside at 7pm because he could no longer stand. We gave him a second round of electrolytes for the day. 20 minutes later he was starting to move his legs and head and his breathing was getting fuller. After getting the twins down to sleep came back out at 930pm to him no longer moving or breathing. The people who sold us him also have not responded since I reached out earlier today. This is heart breaking and stressful. We are now 3 for 3 in getting cows/calfs that are not healthy through craigslist.

• 
  Easy Money (@NASLACS) reported 26 minutes ago

  @al_requiem How hard is it to get stuff from the lower 48? Maybe check marketplor Craigslist, buy it all down here and drive it home?

• 
  Salomé Sibonex (@SalomeSibonex) reported 26 minutes ago

  @webdevMason Nope. The issue is you’re assuming these are in contradiction but they aren’t. The campaigns have lowered the number of unwanted dogs. That number is still high, still contains a high number of Pits, and doesn’t impact puppy mills in the same way, because the demand for those dogs isn’t identical to the demand for backyard bred dogs. Puppy mills often sell as professional breeders or pet shops, not Craigslist ads. Backyard breeders and mills have different customers.

• 
  Michael Fischer (@Holden_Rye_) reported 29 minutes ago

  The lesson isn’t just conviction. It’s surviving the volatility long enough for that conviction to matter. But I’d add one more thing: don’t confuse an old cycle rule with a law of Bitcoin. I watched Bitcoin change in phases. I got into Bitcoin back when we used Craigslist to trade it for cash, ****, pizza, PC parts, whatever. You met people personally. Like any network, eventually you figured out where everyone hung out, where information moved and where people traded. Then exchanges came along and gave Bitcoin a real market price. Then derivatives, perp trading and DeFi showed up. By around 2016, we had enough history to map what looked like a real pattern around the halving. But the nerds watching this **** develop understood something important: The cycle was a map of Bitcoin at that stage of its life. It wasn’t doctrine. Bitcoin was still a baby. The infrastructure was still being built. Now look at it. Wall Street is here. ETFs are here. Corporations are holding it on their balance sheets. Governments that once treated Bitcoiners like criminals are accumulating it, regulating it and building policy around it. Stablecoins, institutional custody, derivatives and massive pools of capital are now connected to the same market. That’s a completely different machine. The problem is that as new people entered Bitcoin, they were taught the four-year cycle without being taught the most important part: The map can change. Over time, a useful observation became a rule. Then the rule became doctrine. I’m telling you now, after going back through the plumbing: The map is changing. The old cycle isn’t necessarily dead. But it isn’t running Bitcoin by itself anymore.