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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by ballenf on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:59PM (#17210818)
I'd argue LinkedIn is much worse than it was pre-acquisition, but it was already on that trajectory. The "news feed" and discussions around current events, etc. They've locked down more and more of it without a $30/mo subscription. Privacy controls are a nightmare to decipher.

I think it's significantly worse albeit probably short of totally "screwed up". Just marginally worse in a lot of small ways that add up to a less useful, less efficient experience for me.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by oculusthrift on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:57PM (#17211608)
just so you know, i know quite a few people at both linkedin and microsoft and for the most part they are still very seperate entities. linkedin is still using google docs and slack for instance. most of the influence microsoft has had on linkedin in smaller isolated integrations. so anything youve seen go downhill in linkedn consumer app is very much due to independent choices/acts by linkedin itself.
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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by jsjohnst on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:42PM (#17211832)
As someone with lots of friends at LinkedIn (I used to work there), I can agree somewhat. But I also know that things can be screwed up in non-obvious ways to rank and file employees (Tumblr/Yahoo and Flickr/Yahoo as examples, which I sadly was there for both).
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