It’s Back! BP 2.0. Firearms classified.

[i303]

Hate them or not, backpage served a purpose. A buddy of mine took the initiative and expense to recreate a sell/buy/trade using the same simple backpage format. He’s not making any money of it, other than what he sells. I’m sure some here have bought a few things. So hopefully the stupid shenanigans are kept to a minimum and the focus is firearms trade as it should be.

http://www.2aclassifieds.com/

[AZ1]

How did he pick the cities?

Also none of the photos load for me.

[Crippledtrigger]

I hope your buddy isn't screwed like the backpage folks were.

[Manitu]

Photos missing here, after an ad ran long enough to get cold then I would post to backpage. Eventually posted both sites simultaneously.

[i303]

I'm not sure how he picked the cities. He did exclude CA unless it has defaulted but I think gun friendly states were picked. for the most part he paid for the same BP website layout which was full of bugs. The goal was to keep it simple like BP and delete the crap

He's trying to get it to work so if you can pass the word. He will strive for less retardation

I'll let him know about the photos. He's spent a bundle making it this far. Gotta give him kudos for that.

[Gatsby]

Craigslist had (has) a problem with keyword stuffing in ads and eventually offered a search option for "title only". I don't know what the development cost of something like that would be, but if his site takes off it may be worth looking into. Just a thought. It makes Craigslist usable when you're searching for something specific.

[admin]

Tell your buddy that he needs to make that site secure, stat. I see it being hacked VERY quickly by someone unless he makes some changes soon. I wouldn't even touch it with a 10-foot pole until it's at least got SSL - and really, it makes me question how secure the rest of the site is if a web developer doesn't even have a SSL cert set up upon rollout.

[shooter444]

Pro conservative American entrepreneurs like the owner of this site and your friend, is what this country needs more of! Sitting around, pissing and moaning about such things as the monopoly the left wing propaganda machine has in the news media, isn't an answer to that problem. jmo

[SweetKnuckles]

Good to know - hope it gets just enough traction to be viable and remains like the Backpage of old when just enough people knew about it that it wasn't spammed with so many keywords that you couldn't wade through the chaff.

[AZ1]

Yeah the keywords and constant dealer posts ruined it.

[xerts1191]

Should have left Colofornia off the list also

[gunpoorboy1]

That's one nice thing about Armslist. They allow you to eliminate the FFL's and Dealers with one click and just look at private sellers.

[Lwstarks]

I agree it was a pain to go through the ads

[Harrier]

SSl is totally insecure- need to go TLS 2.
Arizona shows 32 ads but I went down every city listed and didn't see anything,
sumpin aint right.

[admin]

SSl is totally insecure- need to go TLS 2.

I wasn't aware there was a TLS 2 yet, did you mean 1.2, perhaps? Technically, TLS came out in the late 90's or early 2000's, but SSL 1/2/3 had been around so long and was so ubiquitous that the term "SSL" really became synonymous with HTTPS (even if not the correct technical name), but all certs and web security now use transport layer security (TLS).

That said, HTTPS is absolutely a MUST for a web site that passes any data, such as logins, as it's the mechanism for 3rd party verification of an encrypted channel between two endpoints over the internet. Like any other technology, it has had and will have vulnerabilities - and they get fixed, updated and patched as discovered. However, as it stands now, when you log in on a site that doesn't have HTTPS, your credentials, passwords, whatever - are essentially passed in plain-text for anyone to very easily capture.

These days, any site that doesn't completely run with HTTPS, screams webdev neophyte - and I try to stay away, as I'm sure any data they hold on my behalf is subject to being easily captured.