Accounts

Virtually everything on this site to be done can be done without ever creating an account. This is by design. But for those of you who don’t mind, several additional features open up:

• no more confirmation emails (assuming you’re using your account email)
• manage all your posts from one page
• answer all questions from one page
• manage all your search alerts from one page
• … ?

So check it out: https://allurstuff.com/my_account.html

And tell us what you think.

Pr0n

Well you know you’re for real when the first porn ad is posted.  :-/

So I’ve implemented a “safe search” function.  It’s on by default, and can be turned off under the advanced search options.  And there is a warning if you happen to be tricked into navigating to an adult oriented post if you haven’t already said “ok” to it.  As always, let me know if you find any bugs.

HTML Support / Live Preview

Hey all, I’ve added HTML support to your posts. The following tags are supported:

a, blockquote, br, b, center, code div, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, img, i, li, ol, pre, p, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, td, th, tr, ul, u

and obviously everything else is torpedoed. There is a little tiny bit of a security concern with the img tag, which could allow posters to track by IP address viewers, but craigslist allows it so I’m following their lead. (if you disagree and think it should be blocked, comment below or PM me)

Oh yeah, one more thing… I’ve added a “live preview” feature to the post page. It’s pretty cool – check it out.

Love ya all!
Derek

1999 Bottles?

Hah!  1,000 in 4 months…..2,000 in 10 days!  And 10,000 searches!

Lucky 2,000 was pittsburgh, pa 15203, usa.  Search 10,000 was for “furniture”.

Craigslist Categories

We’ve added support for finer-grained craigslist categories. So now you can search for say just “auto parts” instead of “all for sale/wanted”. Conversely, where before you could only crosspost to subcategories of “for sale/wanted”, now you can crosspost to any category of craigslist.

Note that is is still somewhat experimental. If you can’t crosspost to craigslist, please send us an email about it!

999 Bottles of Beer on the Wall…

Or more precisely, 999 unique search locations worldwide! I wonder where lucky 1000 is going to be?

The most popular so far, btw, in order are:

['dallas, tx, usa', 'richardson, tx 75080, usa', 'plano, tx, usa', 'plano, tx 75023, usa', 'new york, ny, usa', 'seattle, wa, usa', 'san francisco, ca, usa', 'plano, tx 75025, usa', 'jacksonville, fl, usa', 'bedford, tx 76021, usa', 'wylie, tx 75098, usa', 'beverly hills, ca 90210, usa', 'fort worth, tx, usa', 'miami, fl, usa', 'dallas, tx 75248, usa', 'austin, tx, usa', 'frisco, tx 75034, usa', 'plano, tx 75075, usa', 'texas, usa', 'garland, tx 75044, usa']

So still very texas-centric (my newly-adopted home state, so no shock there), but others are coming along. Also, we’re fast approaching 5000 searches… It’s pretty neat watching the traffic tick up like this, with all I’ve put into this site.

Check out the location’s page to see it all graphically.

Update: and the winner’s are…

• 1000^th location: “griffin, ga, usa” (searching for lawnmowers)
• 5000^th search: “breastpump”

Now, I’m no expert, but shouldn’t that be two words?

And for the statistically curious, the top 5 searches are:

['car', 'computer', 'furniture', 'house', 'boat', 'jeep']

Any requests for other interesting stats?