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Maybe a bit unrelated but who else has always serious page rendering issues when visiting LinkedIn? I do not visit it often but there are so many problems latel

Maybe a bit unrelated but who else has always serious page rendering issues when visiting LinkedIn? I do not visit it often but there are so many problems lately that I doubt that I'm the only one, especially since all other sites are fine. These problems appear when I open LinkedIn pages in a tab or for the initial rending but also just when I click on new messages or 'Start'. Is it because of Firefox and/or uBlock Origin?

DailyHN 6y ago
It gets much worse when you start using the less popular features, like group management. Edit: it doesn't even work correctly using chrome without any ad blockers...
- karussell 6y ago
  Haha, thanks for confirming. This is ridiculous for such a popular site. Maybe it is since Microsoft took over ;)
  - DailyHN 6y ago
    I've been heavily active, too active, on the site for over eight years. It was always lousy, but it's getting worse. Lastly, I manage groups with hundreds of thousands of people, and I can't get anyone on the phone for anything. After the countless hours I've spent on LinkedIn, I'm now focussing my energy on ultimately moving away from the platform. It's so disappointing that I don't want even to log in to see the mess. No joke, this week, my assistant told me "that thing that's been broken and annoying for months was finally fixed." That thing was merely "approving" content in the group moderation queue. Some posts simply wouldn't be approved... My strategy used to be "build a community using LinkedIn groups." Now it's "do everything to capture the value I already created in the groups by directing members off of LinkedIn." It gets worse. You can't trust their documentation. And I'm not talking about the API. Even information in their help section is factually inaccurate. And it remains published. When confronted, the issue will get escalated until someone comes up with a roundabout excuse for why the published information is correct, but not practically. I knew better, but I still fell victim to the building on someone else platform problem. Never again.
shultays 6y ago
Last week I was getting weird crashes with games, probably something was wrong with my gpu. Weirdly my firefox was also crashing consistently when I open linkedin. Other websites seemed fine, only linkedin.
jlokier 6y ago
Me too. It has been noticably worse the last two months, and I often see things that look like CSS loading errors. I'm using Firefox (beta) and uBlock Origin too, so that could be a common factor. But it varies from load to load. Sometimes it's completely fine. So I don't think it's likely to be a simple rendering bug. I've been using Firefox and uBlock Origin for years, and LinkedIn more over the last year. I only noticed rendering problems in the last couple of months. (Plenty of other bugs. Search is unreliable, and the mobile app is not without bugs either (some buttons don't do what they're supposed to), but rendering seems ok on mobile.)
matallo 6y ago
I can confirm about the rendering issues, obscure errors, and the use of uBlock Origin.

DailyHN 6y ago

It gets much worse when you start using the less popular features, like group management. Edit: it doesn't even work correctly using chrome without any ad blockers...

karussell 6y ago
Haha, thanks for confirming. This is ridiculous for such a popular site. Maybe it is since Microsoft took over ;)
- DailyHN 6y ago
  I've been heavily active, too active, on the site for over eight years. It was always lousy, but it's getting worse. Lastly, I manage groups with hundreds of thousands of people, and I can't get anyone on the phone for anything. After the countless hours I've spent on LinkedIn, I'm now focussing my energy on ultimately moving away from the platform. It's so disappointing that I don't want even to log in to see the mess. No joke, this week, my assistant told me "that thing that's been broken and annoying for months was finally fixed." That thing was merely "approving" content in the group moderation queue. Some posts simply wouldn't be approved... My strategy used to be "build a community using LinkedIn groups." Now it's "do everything to capture the value I already created in the groups by directing members off of LinkedIn." It gets worse. You can't trust their documentation. And I'm not talking about the API. Even information in their help section is factually inaccurate. And it remains published. When confronted, the issue will get escalated until someone comes up with a roundabout excuse for why the published information is correct, but not practically. I knew better, but I still fell victim to the building on someone else platform problem. Never again.

shultays 6y ago

Last week I was getting weird crashes with games, probably something was wrong with my gpu. Weirdly my firefox was also crashing consistently when I open linkedin. Other websites seemed fine, only linkedin.

jlokier 6y ago

Me too. It has been noticably worse the last two months, and I often see things that look like CSS loading errors. I'm using Firefox (beta) and uBlock Origin too, so that could be a common factor. But it varies from load to load. Sometimes it's completely fine. So I don't think it's likely to be a simple rendering bug. I've been using Firefox and uBlock Origin for years, and LinkedIn more over the last year. I only noticed rendering problems in the last couple of months. (Plenty of other bugs. Search is unreliable, and the mobile app is not without bugs either (some buttons don't do what they're supposed to), but rendering seems ok on mobile.)

matallo 6y ago

I can confirm about the rendering issues, obscure errors, and the use of uBlock Origin.