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. 🙂

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

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!

Search Alerts

So I was going back and forth as to whether or not to add craigslist support to the query alerts. On the “pro” side, it would be an incredibly useful feature. On the “con” side, it could be a bandwidth/database buster if it’s too popular. But in the end I decided “what the heck” and voila: search alerts now notify you of new craigslist posts, as they are created, checked on a daily basis. But I reserve the right to cut down the frequency of the checks if it looks like it’s going to bankrupt us. =P

If you haven’t seen the search alerts yet, check it out. (click the email icon to the right of the search bar) I think it’s the coolest feature of the site, after the actual maps of course!