LinkedIn's algorithm change, implemented in mid-June, prioritizes older posts to ensure users don’t miss significant updates from their networks. The purpose of this adjustment is to balance recency and relevance, enhancing user engagement by surfacing important information like job changes. Users have noticed an increase in older content at the top of their feeds, leading to complaints about stale updates. LinkedIn's VP of product management, Gyanda Sachdeva, highlighted that maintaining relevance is key, focusing less on immediate updates and more on content that facilitates professional growth and networking.
LinkedIn rolled out an algorithm tweak in mid-June aimed at balancing recency with relevance in user feeds, leading to older posts appearing at the top.
Gyanda Sachdeva, LinkedIn's VP of product management, explained the algorithm tweak as a test of how recent content needs to be to remain relevant.
LinkedIn aims to ensure users don't miss significant updates like job changes from contacts, even if it means featuring older posts.
Sachdeva emphasized the goal of showing the most relevant updates from networks, indicating that updates going viral aren't the top priority.
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