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Comments on “LinkedIn Desktop Redesign”
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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
This looks soooo much cleaner and the addition of real-time chat is super interesting but I don't see myself ever using it. No disrespect to LinkedIn but connections are too loose on the platform, with people I met once at a conference when I was 21. I'm afraid chat would be distracting. That said, I can see how it would be useful for others. Curious to … See more
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Joshua Talley@joshuatalley · Product Support Team Lead, Grundfos
@rrhoover Loose connections are a choice. I only connect with people I could recognize or point another person towards (aside from recruiters...but even then I cull the ones that I've worked with and drop the rest).
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Wilhem Pujar@wilhempujar · CEO at Stacktical, the Scalomancist
@rrhoover I think it's the other way around: people are too quick to accept connections from people they barely know :) As long as you do your curation job, realtime chat should be okay! Been looking for a way to nurture these relationships for a while now.
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sri@sridhar_kondoji · No Fluff Just Stuff skills tracker
@rrhoover yes connections are a problem and LinkedIn should have had some rigorous rules around it. As a working professional, LinkedIn adds zero value to me. At best it is monster 2.0. The platform has been abused.
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Lara Noujaim@lara_noujaim
@rrhoover Much much cleaner. I totally agree with you on connection being too loose - particularly for people such as myself who have completely switched industries. I can see how chatting with people from same groups could be useful but then again in a business setting chatting seems a bit weird... But all in all its a good change for LinkedIn.
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Leonel More@leonelmore · Build your product with us: 1950labs.com
@rrhoover would be great to hear from a LinkedIn PM!
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Emad@emadulhasan · Co-founder @ Xpertly.in
@wilhempujar @rrhoover I agree. In most cases people accept invites if they see some level of connection (mutual connections, school, work etc). Interested in seeing how the new feature works out.
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Arun Agrahri@arunagrahri · Founder & CEO - meetnucleus.com
@rrhoover Linkedin is a good online address book and that's it. I just wrote a story on why we need a new professional network - https://hackernoon.com/why-we-ne...
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Bruce Kraft Jr.@brucekraftjr
@rrhoover nonetheless, any improvement to the UI is better than the previous iteration.
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