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Indeed, it has been widely noted that craigslist's authenic feel (hyped by the .org TLD) and community fostering ruggedness has created a cult-like following. It seems that their lack of graphics, change, and heavy UI development has kept the installed user base, well, installed, and growing.

http://www.startupnation.com/pages/newsroom/PR_2006_0128.asp

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'... lack of graphics, change, and heavy UI development ...'

this is also a cheapskate way of concentrating on the development & lowering costs. Such cutting edge (performance wise) technology reminds me of the Mercedes Benz silver cars ~ http://tinyurl.com/2ufx36 ~ so called because they stripped back the paint to save pounds to enter Le Mons. In this case stripping back graphics to allow good scaling.

Thanks for the link.

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