I had it, I lost it. I had it, I lost it. Just another day with the single worst user interface on the Internet: LinkedIn. If you don’t respond immediately, the thread disappears, never to be found again. Yes, I looked in my activity. Yes, I checked all of my connections. Nada. So, I don’t get to react to the original posts. 

With the exception of UIs produced by amateurs, this is the worst. The god-awful LinkedIn interface has done it again. They sent me an email that indicated I had a new message. Clicking on the link in the email sent me into deep oblivion. A few minutes of attempting to find it in the bewildering and useless message interface was fruitless.

I think this just proves we had AI slop before we had AI. I think a bot could have designed a better interface. It appears that, like so many other lousy UIs, this one results from the accretion of a bunch of random decisions yielding an impenetrable morass, which no human being ever sits down to rethink. But of course, if they rethink it, the familiar but crappy interface morphs into one that is no better, and is unfamiliar to boot.