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Ask HN: Why LinkedIn's UI is so terrible?

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Every part of the UI has been A/B tested and placed there to maximize what linked-in values.

You may feel it's terrible, but that's not their primary concern.

The new UI is pretty great. what do you have about it?

I'm not the poster, but I hate it because it's very slow.

I hate almost everything about LinkedIn.

- The permanent "notification" that I haven't added everyone in my contacts to LinkedIn yet.

- it's much harder than it should be to just get to someone else's profile (or to your own)

- the never ending stream of connection requests.

I have recently configured LinkedIn in such way that I no longer receive any recruiter spam. The trick is to deny the "direct" messages from people outside of your network and also require a connect requestor to know your email. These two simple things (plus opting out of any of LinkedIn's mailing lists etc.) and boom! - serenity.

Besides aesthetics, they took away functionality, e.g. searching by job title, company name, location (as separate fields).

Next to the search bar, there's a little button that says "advanced" that I believe will still allow you to get to the functionality you're looking for in a less intuitive way.

No "advanced" link here. Just Search button and nothing more. Maybe they put this only for premium members...

I'm not premium though. What about when you search for something? There should be a little button that says "advanced" on the lefthand side.

The bigger concern is their ongoing removal of features. Linkedin are opening the door for a competitor like glassdoor to add personal profiles with a better user experience.

The new one is very slow and deadly disengaging! They try to improve it but I think there are some issues with the add-ons and plug-in's.

yes that's the word: disengaging :)

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