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by HWR_14 13 days ago
Craigslist became popular when that was the clean look for a website, and then never bothered updating. Network effects in action.

Temu offers people the ability to save money. If your product is "X, but cheaper" you can have a worse UI than X.
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beezlewax 13 days ago
Amazon is a hideous looking website too and always has been. Ebay is similar too in that aspect and plenty of others.
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Urahandystar 12 days ago
They were established when hideous websites were common changing would cause uproar and possibly alienate a large group of users. Look at Googles web page just a text box on a blank page, no way you are launching with that UI in 2026.
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