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Unrelated, but linkedin has the most user hostile notifications of any site I have ever seen. I got a notification to follow a podcast the other day. Not a per
by thisgoesnowhere 3y ago
Unrelated, but linkedin has the most user hostile notifications of any site I have ever seen.
I got a notification to follow a podcast the other day. Not a person I follow asking me to follow it, it was a notification saying "here is a random podcast do you want to follow it."
How the hell is that a thing that companies can buy?
- tornato7 3y agoWay back in the day I used to get excited when I saw a notification from Facebook / Reddit / LinkedIn. Now, every notification is this kind of crap, so I make sure to block all notifications from these apps. I'm sure these sorts of changes increase engagement in the short term but are detrimental to the product in the long term. I really think that change was the beginning of the end for Facebook in particular.
- edgyquant 3y agoI unsubscribed from LinkedIn notifications and they just keep finding creative ways to send me some more
- myaccountonhn 3y agoIt’s bananas how much they spam you
- _jab 3y agoI'm pretty sure that these companies always try to give you at least one notification a day, so that you never log on to see nothing new. Agreed that it's user-hostile, but it's presumably effective as a retention tactic.
- mkj 3y agoExactly. If you set your account to "Hibernated" it won't bother you again. Simply unsubscribing isn't really feasible given the dark patterns in their notification settings page, nested trees of boxes to untick.