Yesterday I ran a bunch of searches, looking for specific types of people in my 2nd degree network. After a dozen or so, LinkedIn start limiting my results, saying I needed to activate a premium plan to see all results. Fair.<p>Today, I went to search my own connections, 1st degree, and they will only show me 3! To see the rest, I need to pay for a premium plan, which start at $29.99 a month. Bull!<p>Screenshot: https://twitter.com/Jmartens/status/953698471415918593
Egads! Why must we watch this pattern unfold over and over again?<p>1. Startup launches useful service<p>2. Service amasses huge user base<p>3. Pressure to monetize service degrades usefulness over time.<p>4. Service eventually becomes utterly useless, and never would have been successful if it had launched in its current state.<p>5. Inertia keeps service going until a worthy competitor in its 'eschew profitability and grow user base' phase arrives and the cycle repeats itself.
I feel like this is more about confusing functionality and bad UI more than it is about LinkedIn being evil. Seems like you're on the global network search and you're applying a filter to remove everyone who's not your 1st degree connection. However, the search engine isn't smart enough to not apply the API limits in this case since you're technically only searching your own network. There is however a page that does what you want under My Network tab [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invite-connect/connections/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invite-connect/connection...</a>
LinkedIn's product design is generally pretty backwards and delusional from my experience. The latest "redesign" only made the app worse, which I had previously thought impossible. It sucks since the core product is theoretically so useful.
Yeah. They started doing this in 2015<p><a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/80074/what-is-the-search-limit-on-linkedin" rel="nofollow">https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/80074/what-is-th...</a><p>Don't even get me started on them removing the ability to search your own group(s).<p>After they did that, I drastically stopped using the service.
My latest frustration with LinkedIn are the growing number of people who post every day with "controversial" first line like:<p>> I absolutely never take a bath.<p>or<p>> I was devastated at what she said.<p>And then a video of them talking straight to the camera for minutes on end.<p>When did LinkedIn become a vlog??
Hmmm. I think it may just be the fact that you accessed that page through the 'People' tab.<p>By going through 'MyNetwork' it seems to work just fine?<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invite-connect/connections/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invite-connect/connection...</a>
The <i>only</i> value of having LinkedIn account for me is entry level network validation for companies I'm applying for a job to. Slowly, LinkedIn is starting to fail even at this.
OP here. Someone from LinkedIn Product Management reached out to me yesterday on Twitter, then followed up today. He said "We reset your counters this morning. We're in the process of updating our logic as we obviously don't want to get in the way of you interacting with your network. The limit is there to product our member data from scraping and commercial use. We misclassified some of your queries and are reviewing ways to prevent this going forward."<p>A fair and appreciated response.
It looks like he hit some kind of limit from accessing too much/too often.<p>I get linkedin is evil, but I've never run into this issue myself.
Wow. That's interesting. I was looking for contact info for an old colleague and I was having a hard time finding how to browse my contacts list in LinkedIn after the redesign. I assumed at the time it was just horrible UI, and I gave up and located the info by searching old emails.