Hello all! I was brought in as the social media manager of a Fortune 500 company in the US. My predecessor left the company under less than amicable terms and, being the subject matter experts that they are, the heads of the corporate communications function didn’t remove her social media admin permissions prior to termination.

She promptly kicked everyone else off and changed the login credentials/2FA to her personal email/cell phone. I have access to her contact information and did not receive a response after reaching out to her. I also have access to her old company email inbox, and could not find any helpful information.

My options are to either convince her to change over the login credentials (completely unlikely as this has already been attempted and I do not want to stalk her) or find a way to nuke the account.

How should I proceed?

Hi. I had my LinkedIn account since 2018 almost
And I did every verification I’m active and I use it almost daily

Today they decide to temporarily close my account to verify my identity as if I hadn’t done it 3 times already in the past year!!!!

I can’t even contact them in any way because to submit a ticket you need to be logged in. :) BUT HOW THE F* AM I SUPPOSED TO WHEN THEY CLOSE MY ACCOUNT

And still they won’t give me back my account I am jobless looking for a job. I got an interview invitation ON LINKEDIN now I have no idea how to attend it because LINKEDIN IS STUPID ASF

IM SORRY IM SO OVERWHELMED SND THIS IS MY LAST STRAW AND IM CRASHING OUT.

So fuck LinkedIn.

Anyone has any clue what to do ?

I want to share my recent experience to warn other software developers about a potential security risk during the recruitment process.

What happened

I was contacted on LinkedIn by someone named Dmytro Halytsky, whose profile is /in/dmytro-halytsky/

The person claimed to represent Ebix and approached me about a remote Senior Full-Stack Developer position, reportedly offering an annual salary of $190,000.

During the recruitment process, I was sent a software project and asked to launch it and provide screenshots.

Why I became concerned

Being asked to run an unfamiliar codebase creates a potential security risk, especially when the identity of the person sending it has not been independently verified.

To be clear, I did not run the project, so I have no evidence that this particular repository contained malware. These are general risks associated with running untrusted code, not confirmed findings about the project I received.

What happened when I contacted Ebix

I contacted the company directly to verify the recruitment approach.
According to the response I received from Ebix, Dmytro Halytsky does not work for the company, and the corporate email account involved had been compromised.

This made me treat the recruitment approach as fraudulent, rather than a legitimate hiring process.

Have you encountered similar recruitment approaches? Has anyone received a coding assignment that turned out to be a security risk?

What is LinkedIn's product team even doing at this point?

First, they messed up the Company → People section, making it unnecessarily difficult to browse and search employees. And now I can't even properly see who liked or reposted certain posts.

The search bar in chats is also unreliable, and the search inside the People section is a pain to use. Scrolling through results and selecting profiles feels unnecessarily clunky.

These aren't some niche features nobody uses. They're literally core use cases, especially if you're using LinkedIn for networking or job hunting.

I genuinely don't understand why they keep changing things while basic functionality feels broken. LinkedIn is probably one of the most important professional networking platforms, yet the UX can be so frustrating.

Hi everyone,
I started a new job this month and added it under Experience. The "Notify network" toggle was switched on when I saved, but LinkedIn never showed me the "Share update" dialog, and no "Starting a new position" post was created.
What I've tried so far:
Editing the position and saving again
Deleting the position and re-adding it (several times)
Both the desktop browser and the mobile app
Nothing has worked. Has anyone run into this? Is there a limit on how often the prompt appears, or a setting I'm missing? Did it eventually show up for you after a few days, or did you have to contact support?
Thanks in advance!

I try using the 'posted in the last 24hrs' and it still shows me results from weeks ago with 100s of applicants.

I have tried using boolean in the search to filter out irrelevant jobs titles but it seems to have no effect.

I can't seem to show only and all results for a specific job title.

And can I filter out jobs I have already applied to?

I need a job ASAP, I have zero connections with last coworkers, I made my account recently, filled my profile, I am trying to get a remote Job as virtual assistance.

Some say I should sent lots of connects and direct messages to the recruiters but how do I find them? Like they don't give an specific area in the filters nor if the hire for remote

I've been following a bunch of recruiters in hopes they would look at my profile. They would open my profile then nothing happens. I understand that I don't stand out much

I've discovered so much more value in direct connecting with relevant people and messaging than with the social feed.

I see the feed as useful but only as a signal and that can be done on profiles.

Adding to that, in my experience most people don't even use LinkedIn for social browsing. LinkedIn trying too hard to be like the others when the real secret is in connecting with people that you serve a purpose for and exchanging ideas.

The whole game of trying to post and comment and like and repost is borderline fruitless and better spent actually reaching out to those people you have an interest in meeting.

Seeing how LinkedIn is attempting to brand itself as another social media feed with videos etc misses the true value it has. And thats real direct connection with each other and actually solving problems.

Let’s say your account has been "blocked" (meaning it has been completely removed from public view).

You try to reach out using links like:

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/ppq

You enter the email address associated with your account into the form, but every time you hit submit, you get an error—regardless of the browser, the mode (usual or private), or the IP address you’re using.

After some digging online, you might discover the reason for the error: the email address linked to your account has also been blocked.

So, you’re forced to provide a different email address in the form. And what do you get in response?

"Since you are contacting us from an email address not associated with the account, for privacy and security reasons, I cannot share information about the account or take any action on it without direct contact from the account owner via the email address linked to the account."

"Please contact us (or have the account owner contact us) directly from the email address registered to the account."

This is a total mockery. The system has blocked you from being able to write to them using the email address registered to your account.

Yet, if you write from a different address, the ticket is immediately closed because it didn't come from the "correct" one—followed by the insulting advice to do that is impossible to do.

There is no excuse for this bullshit.

However, if you keep trying, they might eventually send a reply to the email address actually linked to your account (rather than the one you entered in the form).

Usually, you’ll receive one of two templates:

1 – "To ensure the security of your account, we need to verify your identity." "Please provide a scanned copy of an official government-issued identity document." 2 – Due to the number and/or (yes, specifically "and/or") severity of the violations, your account will remain blocked. You try to ask logical questions:

What specific violations did the account commit? What is the exact wording of the charge?

If the account is blocked due to violations, why are you demanding documents? Documents neither refute nor resolve the fact that violations—if they occurred—took place.

The account is linked solely to an email address; proof of ownership of that email is both necessary and sufficient to verify one's "identity."

Documents prove nothing, as they are not linked to the account.

And what do you get in response to asking for the "exact wording of the charge"? A repetition of:

"Due to the number and/or severity of the violations, your account will remain blocked," followed by "read the rules."

The other side engages in no actual dialogue; they simply churn out canned responses.

In other words, they declare you guilty while concealing the specific charge.

Occasionally (very rarely), they might reply—again, using a template—claiming they cannot disclose their algorithms (?!?).

No one asked about their algorithms. The question was about the exact wording of the charge. These are two completely different things.

It is a crude, mindless manipulation—they take you for an idiot who might just swallow it.

"To ensure the security of your account"—what "security"?! For whom? From whom? I never asked for any "security."

It is all lies and manipulation. One might also point out the thoroughly deceitful and hypocritical tone of everything they write. Phrases like "Thank you for reaching out," "Sincerely," and so on—this isn't politeness; it’s hypocrisy and mockery, especially when contrasted with the actual substance of what they’re saying.

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When you’ve written to them many times, you already know perfectly well what they’re going to say. So, right there in your message, you explicitly tell them: don’t say me that "you’re writing from a different email address"—and you explain why. And what do they write back? "You’ve contacted us from a different email address..." It’s the ultimate form of both sheer stupidity and mockery.

I tried the method - find out the common group and then send a message, however that does not works.

Any other way ?

Really needed this one to do.

Je recherche un outil simple pour planifier l' envoi de messages dans des groupes LinkedIn.

Je parle bien de groupes LinkedIn pas d'envoyer des messages à des utilisateurs.

Des avis ou recommandations ?

I received an email that my account is signed in at a different place.
I tried to change password immediately but I can't access LinkedIn in both app and web.

Is it down right now?

I recently came across a post where someone mentioned using a custom LinkedIn URL to create a more personalised feed.

I'm based in Australia and would love to have a feed that primarily shows posts from people in Australia, rather than content from all over the world.

Does anyone know if there's a way to modify the LinkedIn feed URL to filter posts by location? Ideally, I'd like to bookmark a URL that takes me straight to a feed of posts from people near me.

I'm fairly sure I saw someone share a workaround for this recently, but I can't find it anywhere!

UPDATE A FEW HOURS LATER: he actually reached out to me first while I was typing my message to let me know that he is searching for someone to lead ecom for one of his brands and my name was passed along! I’ll be taking a meeting with his hiring team :) very exciting turn of events here haha

I just got a connection invite out of the blue from someone on the board at several companies I really admire in my industry and the CEO at one in particular, and I’m curious if I should message as I accept the request? I’m not looking for a job from him (obviously not his scope as a board member), but I would love to just introduce myself and be on his radar. I’m very early in my career and have minimal connections in the industry beyond my current/former co-workers.

Is it annoying to high level executives to get introductory messages from people they send invites to, and is there even any merit to this if I don’t have a specific offer/request? I’m sure he was just sending out invites en masse to people in the industry. I don’t want to miss a chance to actually be on his radar, but I also don’t want to send needless spam (I get a lot of pitches and “I applied to your company” messages and they’re a bit annoying).

I am being laid off December of 2026. I need to look for a job and I keep seeing jobs listed requesting that I apply via LinkedIn.

I began the process of setting up an account but they’re asking for my phone number and that’s when I stopped.

Will I get spam calls and texts? How secure will my number be? Does LinkedIn release the phone number?

I very very reluctantly made a LinkedIn profile a month ago because I went to a conference and I wanted an easy way to stay in touch with people I met... But now I've done that and don't know what I'm supposed to do now lol. I maybe get it more if I was looking for a new job, but I'm not.

I'm at EILI5 level guys, I'm not exaggerating. For instance:

- am I supposed to send a connection request to everyone I work with? The 2006 Facebook teen in me is telling me that's cringe but maybe it's polite?

- what about people who've left the place I work or been terminated (not by me...)

- am I allowed to literally never post a thing and just maybe occasionally like something someone else did or whatever?

Also, what's the etiquette on accepting connection requests? I've really only been accepting people I know or at least ones I met at that conference. I thought my privacy settings were pretty tight but all these random people keep trying to add me.

Thanks in advance, sorry these are truly ridiculous questions and I know it. My social anxiety is winning this round!

Before the march update, with 1500 followers, I was getting 3k-8k impressions on my posts.

Nowadays, I get 50-300 impressions max.

I post once a day (SEO marketing space). I also comment on 10-15 other posts a day. I don't spam DM.

I tried carousel, videos, static, claude skill lead magnet, insight post, customer case study post.

I got some posts with a couple of comments in the first hour (friends) - and the post still didn't move beyond 150 impressions.

Honestly, I'm at a point where I don't know what else to do.

I see some of my comments getting 500 views and my "insight" posts not even getting half of that.

Anyone else is this land of despair?

Impression de Bypass de leur responsabilités vis-à-vis les sessions de login en utilisant des firmes tierces avec des app's : "Persona"... Impacts importants...Aucun service client qui offre un véritable lorsqu'un humain semble requis...

Didn't LinkedIn used to always display video captions when available? I can't find any announcements but even with SRT files uploaded the videos won't display captions in feed.

I'm close to my goal of 100 million on the year, and hit 7 million impressions this week.

https://imgur.com/a/mMIT1k1

Ask Me Anything (AMA)

Hey everyone,

I'm a first-year student at Mount Kenya University doing Special Needs Education (Secondary option). I'm not in a crisis, but I want to start covering some of my own costs instead of depending fully on family, and I'm trying to figure out the smartest way to use what I already have instead of starting from zero.

Here's where I'm at:

I'm self-taught in Spanish — not fluent/perfect, but conversational, and I've started making content about learning it

I can play piano

I can edit videos reasonably well

I have a laptop and can afford decent wifi

I'm considering doing a short German course too, partly for the challenge, partly thinking it could open more doors later

Time is limited and inconsistent — I'm a full-time student first, so I need something flexible, not a second full-time job

I'm not trying to get rich quick — honestly just trying to make something steady on the side, even if it starts small. I've looked into teaching piano locally, posting Spanish-learning content, and maybe freelance video editing, but I'd rather hear from people who've actually tried similar things than guess blindly.

A few specific things I'm unsure about:

Is it smarter to focus on one skill deeply or combine a couple (e.g., piano covers of Spanish songs, or editing my own language-learning content)?

For those who've done freelance video editing — how did you find your first few clients with no portfolio yet?

Is a German course actually worth the time/money right now, or should I focus on what I already have first?

Appreciate any honest input — including if something here is a bad idea. Thanks in advance.

I just got into linkedin and I want to create a portfolio for my freelance online 'business hobby', especially because Im still trying to look for a job and thats my only work experiences outside of highschool projects.

the business I run is a forwarder thing similar to buyee/doorzo/etc, so I do handle sourcing, import exports, customer service, data enty and everything alone.

The problem is my online persona is closely tied to my brand, thats how I differentiate myself from the saturated market and build trust with my clients. I also treat it as my safe space. but that experience in my opinion is too valuable to me as a person if I dont include it anywhere on my profile

how can I build a portfolio with clien listing, orders and data entries without doxxing my online persona? + I was thinking of blurring everything identifiable and just turning names into numbers, but the ordered items would give me away

I keep getting email notifications about Swooped's remote IT Manager position, but every time I click through, it says it's no longer accepting applications.

Why does LinkedIn keep sending me emails about expired job applications?

I cancelled my Sales Navigator one day late. Now it shows that I can't get a refund because my account has premium feature usage. I don't need sales navigator anymore and I cannot pay for the whole month as it was reimbursed by my company where I don't work at anymore. I have mailed linkedin and they have transferred my request to a different team. I have emailed them regarding sales navigator issues before as well and they give one reply per day and as per their website the refund window is of 7 days only.

Is there anything I can do to escalate this before I the refund window closes and I get billed? Technically money hasn't left my bank it will next month for this month.

I'm desperate guys do advise.