LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by wslh on Friday February 05, 2016 @01:06PM (#11043317)

I am completely happy with this. LinkedIn is showing off as a site to facilitate businesses while indeed is a service for recruiters. Some examples, posting original stuff to groups with thousands of members and not receiving a single comment or click to some link. Very basic bugs in their mobile offering that makes you think nobody cares about developing a good one or it was developed by a freelancer on vacation. The worst is not innovating (yes, like Tinder!) to match businesses: if after years all they have to offer is sending an In-Mail or contact someone through a middleman we are lost.

And... I can't forget the fake invitations I receive every week with fake photos that I detect searching on Google images by an image.

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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by susan_hall on Friday February 05, 2016 @01:15PM (#11043389)

For me, this is the most surprising missed opportunity:

"posting original stuff to groups with thousands of members and not receiving a single comment or click to some link"

LinkedIn had the chance to build some amazing forums. LinkedIn should be the place that you think about when you want to have a conversation about business. They clearly have the traffic. They could have done something amazing with their groups and discussions. They have wasted all of their chances.

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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by selllikesybok on Friday February 05, 2016 @06:34PM (#11045525)

Every time they touch Groups, they make them that much worse.

They made a big (incomplete) UI overhaul which managed to make them less easy to use, and half the time fails to load posts (every 1-2 posts as you scroll down is loaded via script, fails a surprising amount of the time, or simply refuses to fire!).

I'm at a total loss as to why they hate Groups so much. Not enough page loads / ad impressions? We run a few groups - ranging from 10L to 90K in size, some of which are quite active. But discussions tend to engage ~.001% of users.

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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by draugadrotten on Saturday February 06, 2016 @05:28AM (#11047207)

From my perspective, discussion groups at linkedIn fails to deliver because 99% of posts in the groups are shameless self-promotion. Posters and group creators are not seeking knowledge or discussion, but wish to promote their own new product, company. The same goes for nearly all posts on linkedin: the site is treated as an advertising channel by all involved.

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