There are tons of reasons why Craigslist, as a business, may have taken this road, from a simple "less hassle for us" down the road to "we're building our own stuff" to. who knows. They're a private business - they can do what they want - we don't get to demand insight.
The vast majority of their users don't give a hoot about whether or not other parties have a way to wrap up craigslist data and do stuff with it.
The whole point of the Internet is that it's a collecation of independently run networks that can communicate.
The point of the WWW is to serve hyeprlinked pages to people.
There IS NO POINT to the internet - it just happened, and here we are.
The vast majority of their users don't give a hoot about whether or not other parties have a way to wrap up craigslist data and do stuff with it.
The whole point of the Internet is that it's a collecation of independently run networks that can communicate. The point of the WWW is to serve hyeprlinked pages to people. There IS NO POINT to the internet - it just happened, and here we are.