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what did they do with LinkedIn?? I havent noticed any change. as for Skype, its completely ruined. I have it installed but I am scared to open it. Horrible GUI

what did they do with LinkedIn?? I havent noticed any change. as for Skype, its completely ruined. I have it installed but I am scared to open it. Horrible GUI. Constant updates and generally just useless now.

darawk 8y ago
> what did they do with LinkedIn?? I havent noticed any change. I think that's his point. He's saying that LinkedIn has the opportunity to do lots of interesting things, and appears to be squandering it.
- gressquel 8y ago
  LinkedIn is excellent as it is; its a utility to keep your CV updated and connect with professionals. We don't want FB-like functionality here, thank god.
  - darawk 8y ago
    To be clear, I don't have an opinion on the issue myself. I was just trying to clarify the meaning of the grandparent comment.
  - paulie_a 8y ago
    Just spam and advertisement. That is all LinkedIn has ever been. The contact aspect is shallow at best if you don't work in HR. It's a circle jerk.
  - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
    Excellent if you like endless spam from clueless recruiters who think that Java == JavaScript...
  - markovbot 8y ago
    LinkedIn is a massive pile of dark patterns and spam. What universe are you living in that that's "excellent" or even acceptable?
    - geodel 8y ago
      Well, it is excellent platform for self-declared thought leaders offering groundbreaking insights about business/culture and innovation.
      - markovbot 8y ago
        It's a shit platform for that. Users who are attempting to read these "groundbreaking insights" are subjected to a deluge of tracking code and other malicious behavior. There are plenty of excellent platform for people to share ideas, LinkedIn is absolutely not one of them.
        dash2 8y ago
        I think parent was joke.
        markovbot 8y ago
        I can't even tell anymore.
- ggregoire 8y ago
  LinkedIn is fine as it is. I found my last 3 jobs on it.
- Kiro 8y ago
  LinkedIn is perfect already.
noitsnot 8y ago
I think it has actually improved. They added messaging and now I can get real-time recruiter spam to ignore.
unreal37 8y ago
LinkedIn acquired Lynda and are continuing to dominate the online learning space in enterprise. Not sure what you think "happened" to LinkedIn but they're doing great.
olivermarks 8y ago
I've heard claims that Skype is no longer peer to peer but runs on msft networks/infrastructure and performance has suffered. Can anyone confirm or shed any more light on that?
- justinclift 8y ago
  Not sure about the performance aspect, but your mention of them changing architecture to send all data through their own servers is well known. It went from seemed like a ~reasonable security architecture, to outright enabling the monitoring and forwarding of all user conversations. Ugh.
lucb1e 8y ago
As I also replied to a sibling comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17222045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17222045): It used to be that it would only nag you to sign up or log in when trying to view extended profile attributes. Now it just requires you to log in to even view someone's name and function. It shows up in the search results alright, some day I should find a UA changer to spoof Google and see if they do IP checking or just UA header checking, but generally, they made it completely locked-in now, whereas it was semi-open (at least to view) before. It was a user-configurable setting whether your profile could be viewed by people who are not signed in, and now it's just a completely walled garden.
kkotak 8y ago
Agreed about Skype. They're trying to make it like a messaging platform, and added a lot of crappy - completely unintuitive, complex UX that now make it extremely difficult to use their core features of phone calls, video calls, screen-sharing.

darawk 8y ago

> what did they do with LinkedIn?? I havent noticed any change. I think that's his point. He's saying that LinkedIn has the opportunity to do lots of interesting things, and appears to be squandering it.

gressquel 8y ago
LinkedIn is excellent as it is; its a utility to keep your CV updated and connect with professionals. We don't want FB-like functionality here, thank god.
- darawk 8y ago
  To be clear, I don't have an opinion on the issue myself. I was just trying to clarify the meaning of the grandparent comment.
- paulie_a 8y ago
  Just spam and advertisement. That is all LinkedIn has ever been. The contact aspect is shallow at best if you don't work in HR. It's a circle jerk.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  Excellent if you like endless spam from clueless recruiters who think that Java == JavaScript...
- markovbot 8y ago
  LinkedIn is a massive pile of dark patterns and spam. What universe are you living in that that's "excellent" or even acceptable?
  - geodel 8y ago
    Well, it is excellent platform for self-declared thought leaders offering groundbreaking insights about business/culture and innovation.
    - markovbot 8y ago
      It's a shit platform for that. Users who are attempting to read these "groundbreaking insights" are subjected to a deluge of tracking code and other malicious behavior. There are plenty of excellent platform for people to share ideas, LinkedIn is absolutely not one of them.
      - dash2 8y ago
        I think parent was joke.
        markovbot 8y ago
        I can't even tell anymore.
ggregoire 8y ago
LinkedIn is fine as it is. I found my last 3 jobs on it.
Kiro 8y ago
LinkedIn is perfect already.

noitsnot 8y ago

I think it has actually improved. They added messaging and now I can get real-time recruiter spam to ignore.

unreal37 8y ago

LinkedIn acquired Lynda and are continuing to dominate the online learning space in enterprise. Not sure what you think "happened" to LinkedIn but they're doing great.

olivermarks 8y ago

I've heard claims that Skype is no longer peer to peer but runs on msft networks/infrastructure and performance has suffered. Can anyone confirm or shed any more light on that?

justinclift 8y ago
Not sure about the performance aspect, but your mention of them changing architecture to send all data through their own servers is well known. It went from seemed like a ~reasonable security architecture, to outright enabling the monitoring and forwarding of all user conversations. Ugh.

lucb1e 8y ago

As I also replied to a sibling comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17222045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17222045): It used to be that it would only nag you to sign up or log in when trying to view extended profile attributes. Now it just requires you to log in to even view someone's name and function. It shows up in the search results alright, some day I should find a UA changer to spoof Google and see if they do IP checking or just UA header checking, but generally, they made it completely locked-in now, whereas it was semi-open (at least to view) before. It was a user-configurable setting whether your profile could be viewed by people who are not signed in, and now it's just a completely walled garden.

kkotak 8y ago

Agreed about Skype. They're trying to make it like a messaging platform, and added a lot of crappy - completely unintuitive, complex UX that now make it extremely difficult to use their core features of phone calls, video calls, screen-sharing.