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LinkedIn won't show you your own connections without paying?
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.
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!
Screenshot: https://twitter.com/Jmartens/status/953698471415918593
- jayashe 9y agohttps://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invite-connect/connections/ https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invite-connect/connection...
- jmartens 9y agoHelpful, thank you, but my frustration still stands
- gnicholas 9y agoCan you use the filter feature within your Connections list to effectively accomplish the same type of search you were looking to do? Or does it lead you to the same blocked result? For me it works, but I haven't done much searching recently.
- jmartens 9y agoI can search by name only. Can't search by title, location, or anything that isn't first name or last name.
- zwetan 9y agolike any other social network: you are the product
- hkmurakami 9y agoTypically they don't sell yourself to you though.
- solarkraft 9y agoBetter than being sold to corporations. But holy shit, that's brazen. I hope I'll survive without Linkedin for some more time.
- dabockster 9y agoThey are selling a job board service by having "millions of qualified candidates" on the LinkedIn service (paraphrasing, not a direct quote, but still gets the point across). So yeah, you're being sold.
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- hkmurakami 9y agoIn your example, you are not being sold to yourself, only to someone else, which is par for the course. Having your own data taken hostage so that you have to pay to buy info of yourself is pretty next level.
- Gustomaximus 9y agoBeing the product does not have to equal a bad experience. You linking to two problems that don't have to be.
- w00bl3ywook 9y agoI wish everything was free.
- maerF0x0 9y agoStop giving them your business. The business in this case is your data.
- bob_theslob646 9y agoYeah. They started doing this in 2015 https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/80074/what-is-the-search-limit-on-linkedin https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/80074/what-is-th... Don't even get me started on them removing the ability to search your own group(s). After they did that, I drastically stopped using the service.
- robertlf 9y agoI stopped using StinkedIn a couple of years ago and don't regret it at all. You might do the same.
- Zaskoda 9y agoOnce upon a time I had hoped some day we would just link to our LinkedIn profiles rather than send resumes. That hope is dead. That said, is there an up-and-coming alternative to LinkedIn of some kind? Is there a popularly accepted place to maintain your professional profile other thank LinkedIn?
- matte_black 9y agoYes, a .txt file on a domain you control is the new trend. Easy to link to, easy to copy and paste, fully responsive, straight to the point, no frills.
- cat199 9y agoeven magically includes your handle directly and simply in the url! http://domain.tld/~user http://domain.tld/~user
- matte_black 9y agoOr even yourname.tld/resume
- dabockster 9y agoI stopped publicly posting my resume on my website when I started getting 2-3 calls per hour from sketchy consulting firms in India trying to sell me on some contract-to-career nonsense.
- joombaga 9y agoDepending on your line of work: GitHub. This is pretty neat: https://resume.github.io/ https://resume.github.io/
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- expertentipp 9y agoThe only 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.
- sien 9y agoWhat's the alternative to the LinkedIn trainwreck? Angelist?
- matte_black 9y ago.txt file
- gxs 9y agoIt looks like he hit some kind of limit from accessing too much/too often. I get linkedin is evil, but I've never run into this issue myself.
- jcadam 9y agoEgads! Why must we watch this pattern unfold over and over again? 1. Startup launches useful service 2. Service amasses huge user base 3. Pressure to monetize service degrades usefulness over time. 4. Service eventually becomes utterly useless, and never would have been successful if it had launched in its current state. 5. Inertia keeps service going until a worthy competitor in its 'eschew profitability and grow user base' phase arrives and the cycle repeats itself.
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- e40 9y agoYou forgot this one: 2.5. Company goes public and a bunch of people make lots of $$$.
- lima 9y agoRecent example: Blablacar, Europe's largest car sharing platform. They became popular in Germany after a money grab by Mitfahrgelegenheiten.de a few years ago. Now, it's Blablacar doing the money grab and people start looking for alternatives.
- PinguTS 9y agoBlablacar brought Mitfahrgelegenheit.de. So in Germany, both are basically the same.
- lima 9y agoMitfahrgelegenheit was the previous market leader, money grab happened, Blablacar became popular, Blablacar ended up buying them later.
- j1elo 9y agoIn here they stayed free for several years, but in the end they started charging a service fee at around mid-2014. They penalized the lack of anticipated planning, i.e. the earlier you made a reservation, the less you paid. Likewise, if you were planning for the following day, you would pay the most, regardless of how many travels were being advertised for that day. I don't know if that's the price scheme still today, I haven't used it since then. There was a big movement of users to Amovens and similar clones. And, some big Whatsapp groups were created by people who do some trips regularly and wanted to avoid paying. Still today some of those groups exist, they are almost always full (max. 250 people or so in Whatsapp groups) and there are waiting lists of people interested in getting added. I assume similar groups exist in Telegram.
- leozardoda 9y agoHmmm. I think it may just be the fact that you accessed that page through the 'People' tab. By going through 'MyNetwork' it seems to work just fine? https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invite-connect/connections/ https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invite-connect/connection...
- jdtang13 9y agoLinkedIn'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.
- titanix2 9y agoThe first redesign after Microsoft bought it motivate me to create my own personal page because it was so bad and broken. Now it is less broken (more content is displayed) but still not as fine as before. So I’m mot maintening my profil there anymore.
- dingdongding 9y agoLinkedIn is just copying FB pixel by pixel in terms of design. Just compare LinkedIn feed and FB feed side by side.
- avenoir 9y agoI 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] [1] https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invite-connect/connections/ https://www.linkedin.com/mynetwork/invite-connect/connection...
- jmartens 9y agoYes, that link provides a list of all my connections, so we've made progress. However, they don't allow filtering on anything but first or last name. Pretty limited, but yes, they do let users see all their connections.
- shmed 9y agoThere's a button "Search with filters" right next to the search box.
- apercu 9y agoWow. 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.
- snowwrestler 9y agoMy latest frustration with LinkedIn are the growing number of people who post every day with "controversial" first line like: > I absolutely never take a bath. or > I was devastated at what she said. And then a video of them talking straight to the camera for minutes on end. When did LinkedIn become a vlog??
- siquick 9y agoamen
- magic_beans 9y agoAbsolutely right. WHY does LinkedIn need to be another social experience? It's ridiculous.
- valar_m 9y agoMy strategy has been to remove connections with people who post like that. It has served me well. I recommend it.
- d--b 9y agoThat reminded me I needed to delete my account. Done.
- jmartens 9y agoOP 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." A fair and appreciated response.