[mathattack]

My 2 cents... It's an underutilized resource. They have career data for the highest value people in the world. Yet their technology and interface are woefully dated. The mobile search is awful, and it should be a tool that everyone uses before every meeting. The "You may know X" ability to find new contacts goes down dramatically. It would be beaten by a heuristic that just checks people who work at your current or prior company in the same city.

I do think there's room for a turnaround.

[ryandrake]

The thing that most turns me off from LinkedIn is that it leaks your browsing information to the users you are browsing, through their "who viewed my profile" feature. If I want to just brush up on a contact's background before a meeting without announcing to him that I'm stalking him, I need to log out and re-browse. Major pain in the butt.

[bfstein]

You can turn that off.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141009022529-27827108-how-t...

[rhizome]

That they create a blog post for that rather than easily discovered UI elements (hover?!), says a lot about LinkedIn as a company.

[ghaff]

It's pretty easy to discover--under privacy in your profile. But, yes, the fact that a number of these types of settings are opt-out rather than opt-in is a pretty dark pattern.

[ryandrake]

Wow, never realized that! This is something that you should have to opt-in to, not opt-out.