• by Colin Kirkland , Yesterday

Over the past two months, LinkedIn users have been complaining about seeing outdated posts in their main feed, highlighting a potential bug in the social media platform’s algorithm.

LinkedIn has since addressed user concerns, stating that it was testing a new feed strategy, but that it was only temporary.

“Your feed may have looked slightly different in the last few weeks,” LinkedIn’s EMEA & LATAM B2B Communications Lead Bhairavi Jhaveri posted to the platform. “This was part of some testing we were doing to strike the right balance between prioritising relevant content vs recent content in your feed.”

“The dramatic shift was only temporary and it will go back to feeling far more normal now,” Jhaveri added.

Since the start of June, users who had not logged into LinkedIn for a few weeks were complaining about missing updates such as current job changes, while instead seeing older posts that no longer felt relevant.

"What's happened to LinkedIn?" Tim Vanderhook, CEO of ad-tech company Viant, recently posted. “It's 2025, no one waits 3 weeks to "learn" of something.”

Vanderhook added that his personal use of LinkedIn was decreasing because of "old, stale and irrelevant" information on his feed.

Soon after, LinkedIn Vice President of Product Management, Gyanda Sachdeva, told Business Insider that the company is focused on tweaking the platform’s “recency algorithm” “every now and then” in order to show users the most relevant possible updates from their professional networks, and that users “should expect to see a little bit of a flex on recency.”

LinkedIn’s algorithm takes into consideration timeliness and activity history – which gives various levels of credibility to the type of people and posts a user often reads, reacts to, and shares -- as well as user expertise. 

As the company continues to test its algorithmic balance, users are likely to see variations made to their feed.

However, "in the new normal," according to Sachdeva, “it won’t feel dramatic.”