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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by reactordev »

mft_ wrote: post #72
reactordev wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to look at who owns LinkedIn and why building a meetings and calendar was not “part of the plan”

On the one hand, yes - and (to be reductive) enshittification is basically making decisions according to incentives that aren't aligned with your users, so it fits. On the other hand, MS have Outlook email/calendar and Teams for video calling - so it could have been an opportunity to benefit different parts of their broader ecosystem. You could also build in limited access to Word for CV creation/editing (with Copilo…

Except those two divisions were at others ends of the hall, in between was the gauntlet of enterprise deference, with obstacles such as Service Now approvals and meetings about meetings about how to have good meetings… it’s an MBA’s wet dream.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by cosmodisk »

jmye wrote: post #21
torben-friis wrote: post #6

I don't understand who uses that network anymore. Everytime I login it's all ai generated stories next to ai generated flavor images of people sounding like a parody of themselves ("what taking my kids to school taught me about business scaling"). Out of all places to doomscroll, why choose the one that feels like an episode of Severance?

I was going to respond, because of course the site has value if that’s where my network is and that’s where everyone posts jobs. But I don’t think that’s what you’re asking. I frankly have no idea who uses the social media aspects of the site. Some of the “career coaching” groups suggest posting constantly because it ups your visibility to recruiters, but thats only the content generation part. I’d guess some recruit…

I've been using LinkedIn for years. I'm one of those cynics who loath all those "inspirational" and "leadership" posts, but there's more than that. I've met some people who tremendously boosted my career. I've met people who later became friends and our kids play together. I did meet a lot of incredible people in various jobs who I wouldn't have met otherwise(e.g. CEOs of very large companies- I'm just not in those circles to meet people in such positions). I'm often involved in interesting and challenging discussions on various technical and other topics.

The main point is that everyone can use it in a way they want to.It's perfectly fine to become some influencer if that's what one wants. It's equally fine to have 45 connections with people who are really good in what they do and perhaps exchange 5 messages a year. It's massive platform, so it's inevitable that there will be lots of crap out there,as in any other large forum without very strong moderation.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

#83

Post by Spooky23 »

cyanydeez wrote: post #61
Spooky23 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The same reason there’s probably some dude pitching adding AI to notepad. Fad and fashion. In the last 20 years “peer to peer”, “Uber for X”, “gamification” and now of course “AI” were the must have tech memes. Back in the day O’Reilly had a conference dedicated to the revolution of… XML. Social was just another one. Now, even the social companies are kinda moving past social. It’s more about hoarding attention. But…

eh, that guy who pitched AI for Notepad was a product of M$lop push for AI everywhere. No one seriously though it needed AI, but if they're trolling for AI pitches, of course that's an easy target, it's already text based. GUI stuff is hard, but raw text?

I actually didn’t know that was a thing. I was trying to cook up something quick and absurd. Truth is stranger than fiction!

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by bvan »

As much as you all dislike LinkedIn and the cringy posts, keep in mind that for certain parts of the market it is >the< main professional forum. It is where your investors live, and their capital providers live. So, play nice, yeah?

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by hatmanstack »

psalaun wrote: post #35
jmye wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was going to respond, because of course the site has value if that’s where my network is and that’s where everyone posts jobs. But I don’t think that’s what you’re asking. I frankly have no idea who uses the social media aspects of the site. Some of the “career coaching” groups suggest posting constantly because it ups your visibility to recruiters, but thats only the content generation part. I’d guess some recruit…

I use LinkedIn as a forum; I only follow, comment and react to economics, society, ecology related posts (and therefore I only follow people posting these opinions). It's the closest we have from an Agora: I can debate with people I won't ever meet in my real life circles, and I discuss (disagree) politely with them because I'm CTO of a company and I can't publicly appear like a troll or douchebag. I unfollow or igno…

The feed actually surfaced people working on open source projects adjacent to mine, that turned into real collaboration and shaped technical decisions I wouldn't have arrived at alone. It's not all good content, but it's a useful signal source for things outside your usual field of view.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by matsemann »

beAbU wrote: post #32
torben-friis wrote: post #6

I don't understand who uses that network anymore. Everytime I login it's all ai generated stories next to ai generated flavor images of people sounding like a parody of themselves ("what taking my kids to school taught me about business scaling"). Out of all places to doomscroll, why choose the one that feels like an episode of Severance?

I got my last job there, and I have a steady queue of recruiters reaching out the whole time. So I will probably continue to use it as long as I need to eat. I don't engage with the feed at all though. I believe the same applies to many others as well

It's a difference between "using it" and just having a dormant profile you wake to live when interested, though.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by rixed »

Not only it's huge and slow, but the design is broken (some elements frequently masking others, like the top banner masking half the top menu, or the icons masking the search box), and it's full of errors.

I had to use it this very morning (yes, that's a new low) and met two errors in two pages. Asked Claude about those bugs, and it made fun of me because they were well known bugs. Even for AIs LinkedIn website is slop apparently.

This HN post to collectively vent some frustration comes in a timely fashion.

(For the record: the first bug was "another admin is already editing this page" making it impossible to edit a business page translations, and the next one was wrong people count when associating personnal profiles to business ones).

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