[spencerhakim]

Reddit should have stuck to the Craigslist model of simply just existing as-is, selling a reasonable amount of ads and premium subscriptions, and only having the minimum number of employees required to keep the site up. It never needed to be and shouldn't have been anything more than that.

[dannersy]

Yet another brand gone to shit in the name of "exponential growth" or some other term investors want to hear. No one considers whether their business should fit a model that prioritizes sustainability.

[m463]

I was thinking of craigslist too. They resisted ebay, and change for change's sake, and ... well lots of things:

  People tell us what they like about craigslist including:

  - Giving people a voice
  - A sense of trust and even intimacy
  - Consistency of down-to-earth values
  - Simplicity
  - No charges, except for job postings
  - Freshness of the material
  - No ads, particularly no banner ads

https://www.craigslist.org/about/mission_and_history