![]() ![]() ![]() The bad news is that you cannot delete individual messages but have to delete the conversation, so no more cleaning up the historic threads, you have to keep them all or none. The search remains so that you can hunt through all messages new and old (but not deleted) to locate that message you missed or want again in future. This is an unfamiliar view which will take some time to adjust to we think but you do have filters to see unread, messages from connections, InMail and blocked as a filter to reduce the clutter. The folder based approach of old has gone, now taking a more all in one unified type approach unlike the traditional email clients (such as Outlook and more) and much more like Facebook. You need to select the person, then the thread and then select forward from the small top right menu and then pick off the message you want to send – phew! Many more steps than the older version. You can forward messages to people, but the interface is not intuitive. When you look at a discussion in the threaded view the blue boxes aligned right are messages you have sent and the grey messages aligned to the left are the ones you have received – why they didn’t put a heading on the top of the page we have no idea but we did suggest it in the feedback we sent in. Messages are now tied to a user picture on the right, which is great if you only message a person a couple of times but if you correspond a lot (such as to one of your team or an assistant) it makes the interface really muddled so a balance of good and bad depending on your use. We recently spent a good chunk of time having a play and here’s our views. LinkedIn themselves said they “took a look at some existing features to see how they are being used by our members to provide a new and improved messaging experience.” but interestingly user experience we have heard in courses has been marginally more negative than positive, possibly down to familiarity changes. We are now seeing it becoming more and more prevalent – if you haven’t got it yet you will. They have been rolling out the changes for some months, seemingly starting with the lightweight users and accounts first. With previous updates to profiles complete it is now the turn of messaging. ![]() LinkedIn has been working on the user interface to make it consistent, clean and very image lead for some time. LinkedIn gets new inbox but is the message good news? ![]()
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