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What problems do you face on LinkedIn (professional platform)?

2 points by anuragmishracse ↗ HN
Hi folks, my experience with LinkedIn hasn't been great in the last few months - - too many promotional posts - unrelated posts in my feed - too many ads even after being premium - job search filtering is broken - job alerts aren't real time - job search shows all promoted jobs - no way to drill down in 4k+ jobs

Do you face these issues? What are some issues you face?

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aaronrobinson
It’s full of people pretending they like their job.
fuzzfactor
>What are some issues you face?

Same old shit.

It seemed really promising until you needed to sign in before you could browse the pages.

Ever since then the vast majority of good people's postings could no longer be seen by literally hundreds of millions of potentially interested visitors (and growing), but there was no trouble at all to begin with back when it was a regular internet website.

Definitely less than 10% as useful as we know it could be, because the other 90% was once accessible, and it would be easy to fix because it started out worthwhile, and gave posters a much much wider platform.

Enshittifiers gonna enshittify.

blinded
Gave linkedIn my phone number for 2fa. After that I get weekly phone calls from recruiters. They still think I live on the east coast and the calls are always at 6am.
Shinmon
As soon as you happen to have more than a 150 to 200 connections you really need to curate your feed to make it useful: Unfollow or click "you don't want to see this kind of content" for specific posts.

Anyway, LinkedIn is really slow and does everything to make it miserable. I believe it's only surviving because almost everyone is on there now.

What annoys me most now is the amount of auto-generated AI content. They all look the same, never really interact with the post in general. It's so annoying.

However, when you found a "community" inside LinkedIn it can be really nice interacting with them: posting, sharing, messaging, etc.

scorpio89
The problem with LinkedIn is that it is just no longer clear what purpose it serves. Is it for the influencers who post garbage on it? Is it for a personal post? Like with everything else when the purpose of a platform isn't clear, it quickly goes down the hill. I have stopped using LinkedIn altogether.

For jobs, I rely on Indeed. For sales, I rely on other professional industry groups or conferences. For following particular influencers, I rely on Substack.