I have great respect for the pool of experts and talent who are members of LinkedIn.

However, I find the LinkedIn interface clumsy, cumbersome, and often, wrong.

Here is a collection of errors and inconsistencies collected from LinkedIn.

Cannot reply to message

Got a message on Yahoo Mail, but it didn't load

So I tried to reply on LinkedIn

but I was prompted to log in

(although I was already loggged in, AND the login screen kept appearing... a sub-bug?)

and when I viewed my sent messages, the reply was not there

But I'm already logged in, and why can't I edit the comment?

After posting a comment, I noticed a typo: Inida instead of India

But when I corrected it and tried to submit it, I got a login screen (although I was already logged in)

and to add insult to injury, I could neither log in nor correct the comment

has this happened to you? post a comment below

Help! We're Upside Down

Another thing I have IN COMMON WITH MARVIN...

If 4 Messages Were 9

Reminds me of the Jimi Hendrix song If 6 were 9 - 4 actual messages listed as 9 in some places

Can't View Home Page

Every time I try to view the homepage, it redirects to this Error Page after a flash of the homepage content. It seems to be caused by the InMail Notifier.

Full profiles for 3rd-degree connections are available

only to premium account holders (sometimes)

When I followed a link to the LinkedIn profile I was blocked from viewing it:

LinkedIn wants me to pay at least 19.95/month to upgrade and view the profile:

Searching for the name displays the profile without the premium membership:

Can't Change My Status

I want to update my status to:

on Share the previous status from yesterday persists and the update vanishes:

[EDIT] it showed up some time later, perhaps a caching or cron issue

People You May Know  ^beta  Doesn't Send Invitations Successfully

But if you click through to the profile you can send the invitation the normal way

Vanishing Invitations

1. I received an invitation to connect in my email. When I clicked on the "Accept" button, the LinkedIn web site said the invitation no longer exists.
2. Curious, I visited the inviter's profile, where I was surprised to see an "Accept invitation" button
3. But when I clicked on it, I was taken to an archived invitation, with no way to accept.

and when I asked the sender about it, he said:

I recently got another "accidental" invitation - is this a trend?

LinkedIn Funges My Links

I replied to a request for advice about migrating a site away from the soon-to-be-discontinued iWeb service. I ticked the box to send myself a copy, and when I viewed it, the three links at the bottom were funged and two were completely broken. Huh?

Links:
[ http://www.drupalgardens.com/|leo://plh/http%3A*3*3www%2Edrupalgardens%2Ecom*3/KkDH ]
[ http://wordpress.com |leo://plh/http%3A*3*3wordpress%2Ecom/-iAr]
[ http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/e-commerce/cms-comparison-drupal-joomla-and-wordpress|leo://plh/http%3A*3*3www%2Erackspace%2Ecom*3knowledge_center*3e-commerce*3cms-comparison-drupal-joomla-and-wordpress/QUKg ].

quick next/prev in message view?

Every email reader provides "next" and "prev" buttons to quickly open the next or preceding message while viewing the currently selected message, right?

the invitation that won't be accepted

I was very happy to receive an invitation to connect from former client Peg Skarrow, however I am unable to accept it from my inbox, nor on her profile page: no matter how many times I accept it keeps reappearing as if it was not accepted.

decibel.places is a website address?

148 characters counted as 251

No Connections Displayed in Forward Question or Select Experts

Question clarification resets date in list view

"2 days ago"

same question which I answered 11 days ago (but clarification added 2 days ago)

There was an unexpected problem that prevented us from completing your request

When I try to answer a question, I get an error message:

This has been posted as a question, but if nobody can answer questions, that may be why there are no answers...

Messages on the home page does not include "Mark Read"

However, the actual Inbox has the feature

Just Joined LinkedIn - NOT!

LinkedIn says there are new colleagues from Colorfury who just joined

however, I was disappointed

LinkedIn and SEO marked by spellcheck in compose message:

You would think that LinkedIn would not underline it's own site name or a common acronym like SEO with spellcheck!

Hey where did my tweet go? (again)

I tried updating my LinkedIn status from Twitter using the #in hashtag - #fail!

Twitter:

LinkedIn:

LinkedIn Twitter settings:

Shoot the copy editor - or... who wrote this?

Hey where did my tweet go?

I tried updating my status from Twitter using the #in hashtag - #fail! Tried Tweetdeck and the Twitter web site. Finally I updated on LinkedIn and the #in posted to Twitter. One way traffic!

Hey where did my name go?

LinkedIn added a Twitter API to update the LI status. First of all, the default setting resets the status for EVERY tweet - a stupid setting IMO. The tweet created in LinkedIn with the #in hashtag does not transfer the username:

2 answers counted as 5

 1 answer counted as 3

Email notification missing a body:

should be:

Links gone wild (IE & Opera, ok in Firefox)

Hey, what happened to the Reply button?

Ok, RTL languages like Hebrew can be tricky - but here are two versions of the same text

These stats clearly show that I have 28 Best Answers in Web Development (the most on LinkedIn) - but immediately below, the graph shows 27 Best Answers out of 435.

:DOH:!

Now with 29 Best Answers, LinkedIn's stats look correct. I'm not sure if the correction came about through the update for another answer, or through my post on LinkedIn Questions about this...

Here LinkedIn reports there are 3 new classmates from Brown University:

But there are actually only 2 new classmates when the link is followed

These Discussions are supposedly "Sorted By Start Date" -

so why is the one I just posted 36 minutes ago in the middle of the list?

ok, here's another - I noticed it because I know Catherine - so I clicked on the "Be first to answer" link and found 3 other answers posted - and after I posted mine and went back to my home page, it still displayed: