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Ask HN: Why LinkedIn's UI is so terrible?
- simplehuman 10y agoThe new UI is pretty great. what do you have about it?
- taprun 10y agoI'm not the poster, but I hate it because it's very slow.
- rootme 10y agoHey is Microsoft now. Of course it's slow.
- imauld 10y agoI hate almost everything about LinkedIn. - The permanent "notification" that I haven't added everyone in my contacts to LinkedIn yet. - it's much harder than it should be to just get to someone else's profile (or to your own) - the never ending stream of connection requests.
- taway_1212 10y agoI have recently configured LinkedIn in such way that I no longer receive any recruiter spam. The trick is to deny the "direct" messages from people outside of your network and also require a connect requestor to know your email. These two simple things (plus opting out of any of LinkedIn's mailing lists etc.) and boom! - serenity.
- zerr 10y agoBesides aesthetics, they took away functionality, e.g. searching by job title, company name, location (as separate fields).
- aakriti1215 10y agoNext to the search bar, there's a little button that says "advanced" that I believe will still allow you to get to the functionality you're looking for in a less intuitive way.
- zerr 10y agoNo "advanced" link here. Just Search button and nothing more. Maybe they put this only for premium members...
- aakriti1215 10y agoI'm not premium though. What about when you search for something? There should be a little button that says "advanced" on the lefthand side.
- anilgulecha 10y agoEvery part of the UI has been A/B tested and placed there to maximize what linked-in values. You may feel it's terrible, but that's not their primary concern.
- samhefnawy 10y agoThe new one is very slow and deadly disengaging! They try to improve it but I think there are some issues with the add-ons and plug-in's.
- andraganescu 10y agoyes that's the word: disengaging :)
- Gustomaximus 10y agoThe bigger concern is their ongoing removal of features. Linkedin are opening the door for a competitor like glassdoor to add personal profiles with a better user experience.