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The UX of LinkedIn is terrible. Once I went into a futile debate with a support person (yes, it was that ancient time couple of years ago), so I had to conclude

The UX of LinkedIn is terrible. Once I went into a futile debate with a support person (yes, it was that ancient time couple of years ago), so I had to conclude the 'support' is even worse. I do not use it that much like when I thought it would be good for finding a job (I did eventually, but not there) and memories fade, but I recall that searching for keywords is like triggering a random number generator, search profile gives notifications about dozens of new positions but when I trigger manually the very same search then it is 0 results, and whenever I did something then I got a notification that I just did that, very useful thanks, and it stayed there until you manually close it, also you have more and more otherwise, very annoying. Feels like genuine Microsoft quality.

hbn 2y ago
LinkedIn straight up stresses me out when I think about using it. So many things that work counter-intuitively to the way you'd expect any social media platform to work. From the emails they send you, with the sender set to the name of someone you know, and the subject written in first person asking you to add them, even though all they did was click an "add" button. Obviously because they get better engagement if their automated emails look like they were hand-typed by a person reaching out to you specifically by name. Or the fact that viewing someone's profile notifies that person that you did so. I'm too scared to just click around, let alone post because last time I snooped on what some ex-coworkers were up to now they started sending me messages to try and recruit me for their startups. And now I look like I've committed an act of rudeness by snooping the profile of a guy I knew but not taking the time to reply to his messages.
- codr7 2y ago
  That's why they were a perfect fit for Microsoft, both creepy as hell. I refuse to keep an account, if that's a deal breaker I'm not interested.
shiroiushi 2y ago
The UX of LinkedIn may be bad, but it isn't remotely as horrible as the UX of Facebook.

hbn 2y ago

LinkedIn straight up stresses me out when I think about using it. So many things that work counter-intuitively to the way you'd expect any social media platform to work. From the emails they send you, with the sender set to the name of someone you know, and the subject written in first person asking you to add them, even though all they did was click an "add" button. Obviously because they get better engagement if their automated emails look like they were hand-typed by a person reaching out to you specifically by name. Or the fact that viewing someone's profile notifies that person that you did so. I'm too scared to just click around, let alone post because last time I snooped on what some ex-coworkers were up to now they started sending me messages to try and recruit me for their startups. And now I look like I've committed an act of rudeness by snooping the profile of a guy I knew but not taking the time to reply to his messages.

codr7 2y ago
That's why they were a perfect fit for Microsoft, both creepy as hell. I refuse to keep an account, if that's a deal breaker I'm not interested.

shiroiushi 2y ago

The UX of LinkedIn may be bad, but it isn't remotely as horrible as the UX of Facebook.