Linkedin is really terrible.<p>You are constantly spamed by career 'advices', recruiters, life coaches and people bragging about their work-related achievements... Its really difficult to find any interesting content there. I tend to spend no more than 10 seconds on it, unless I need to respond to a (recruiter) message.
Feels like the only people getting anything out of Linkedin are those who are new to their respective fields, and need to network a bit and maybe land a new job. Otherwise, it feels like waste of Internet bandwidth.<p>Frankly I have such a low opinion about Linkedin, that I'm amazed that nobody came up with an alternative yet. Maybe its the whole 'professional social network' concept that feels weird to me? While I socialize with my colleagues on regular basis, I dont want _work_ to be at the center of my socialization. I prefer to talk to people about other things in their lives.
I'm sorry but the posts' author doesn't know what LinkedIn's value is and neither do most people in this field. Sales and recruiting, functions most engineers avoid. Saying it has only "the foundations" of a lasting business is naive at best. It is wildly dominant in its niche and will remain that way for years and years to come.
> It’s not too late to bring content to users in the way Snapchat has. Because the user’s resume is online, LinkedIn knows far more about them than Snapchat knows about its’ users. I still have hopes that my LinkedIn feed will be full of informative content from credible publications and my network’s opinions on them.<p>I'm slightly tired of reading think pieces that end with utopian thoughts about what corporations can do with all the data they collect on us.<p>Not that I really agree with this anyway - my resume and indeed my professional network probably doesn't yield that much insight into the kind of content that will interest me beyond broad brush stroke topics like 'Technology'
Worth pointing out (but not mentioned in the article):<p>Since switching to a new design, there's actually no way to view anyone's profile without logging in, not the basic info as there used to be, nothing. By following the link to someone else's profile, you're being greeted with the signup/signin page.<p>So, you can't effectively open <i>anyone's</i> profile without triggering the "who looked at your profile" thingy (other than opening a spare account for that purpose, of course).
Instead of using all that resources on a new UI, they should have fixed their jobs search.<p>I only go to linkedin when I need a job, yet their job search is terrible.<p>It has no real filtering or sorting. And what it has doesn't really work right. Like, why would you filter by job title, when that varies greatly by company.<p>I ended up spending most of my time on StackOverflow job board, because the searching and filtering works as expected.
Also: The new UI freezes up a lot.<p>And when I try to log in from my linux laptop, it tells me I need a more modern browser (because my Chrome is a single year out of date?).<p>But it's correct in telling me to use a different browser: LinkedIn (and only LinkedIn) crashes constantly otherwise.
Since LinkedIn changed the UI, signups to my Showcase pages that are newsfeeds about famous entrepreneurs [1] have dropped by over 70%, making the work involved in curation almost worthless. If they are trying to make a social network that allows people to share business-related content they are failing badly.<p>[1]<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/elon-musk-newslines" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/company/elon-musk-newslines</a>
LinkedIn changed the backend in 2012 from Rails to Node.js: <a href="http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/10/4/linkedin-moved-from-rails-to-node-27-servers-cut-and-up-to-2.html" rel="nofollow">http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/10/4/linkedin-moved-fro...</a><p>Are there any more recent write ups what LinkedIn uses on Frontend on Backend at the moment?
New UI REMOVED notes you make against contacts (this is how I remembered who the people I connected with were!)<p>This totally undermines the value of the network! The redesign may help them make more money short term, but will undermine the business long term!
Not much of a LinkedIn user but I've noticed that they are trying to hide the slow load times with placeholders. Let's just say it's noticeably slow.
What I see when I look at LinkedIn is a company that has too many teams and not enough communication. "We're in charge of the side bar... but we don't talk to the people who are in charge of the profile... or the people in charge of the feed..." They need better unification on the product team.<p>They don't use anywhere near the full screen on desktop / laptop, it's some sort of crappy non-responsive tiny little center column for content.<p>SO much sponsored content with the new UI. Between through "stuff you may like" and jobs and "people you may know" and just ads... and then you finally see what your friends posted. Of the top 10 posts in my feed, 7 of them were ads. Even when you hit "hide stories like this" on the sponsored crap, they come back again. If I'm not looking for a job, why do I have to see the jobs?<p>* <a href="http://imgur.com/SVOlvWW" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/SVOlvWW</a><p>Page load times are SOO long. 4.5 seconds to load a profile page that doesn't even have never-ending scroll? I'm using Google Fiber 1000.<p>* <a href="http://imgur.com/PvwNAbT" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/PvwNAbT</a><p>It's just ugly a lot of spacing just seems off. Colors seem off... like they don't have a style guide. "Let's slop in some yellowish there, that'll be fine..."<p>* <a href="http://imgur.com/9CPsYSi" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/9CPsYSi</a><p>* <a href="http://imgur.com/Hg4lexp" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/Hg4lexp</a><p>We lost functionality... ability to see profiles, ability to print your profile to a PDF and see endorsements / recommendations. Now all you see is where you worked.<p>* <a href="http://imgur.com/ySwydsy" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/ySwydsy</a><p>UX seems like it's some totally compromised middled ground between junky non-responsive and where it wants to be in 5 years... it is just not very good at all right now.<p>EDIT: A few more...<p>A least they don't have 4 different main navigation bars within 1 click inside of the main navigation away from each other... oh wait... <a href="http://imgur.com/BAfojwJ" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/BAfojwJ</a><p>At least they don't add frivolous scroll bars to their menus... oh wait... <a href="http://imgur.com/iKiIkuF" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/iKiIkuF</a><p>At least their main navigation controls are consistent throughout... oh wait... <a href="http://imgur.com/rwffoqT" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/rwffoqT</a>