No Wonder Microsoft's LinkedIn and Github Have So Many Layoffs, Permanent Office Closures
Traffic down, losses, probably never going to profit
LinkedIn and Github (or "GitHub", we'll proceed with "Github" for consistency's sake) are social control media "platforms", albeit mostly Web sites (or "webapps") designed to make people "addicted"; like Twitter (now "X"), they have a profound profitability problem. They hoped to turn things around, but as traffic falls that long-elusive potential slips away and in recent years both LinkedIn and Github had offices shut down permanently (and also mass layoffs, obviously). Their expansion hopes basically died. The media barely reported on it because Microsoft habitually compels those affected to sign NDAs for no reason other than censorship or prevention of negative press. Some whistleblowers talked to the media about these NDAs.
1-2 days ago statistics associated with traffic in LinkedIn and Github looked like this, having just been released for the prior month:
This may not seem very significant, but that's a drop for one month only, based on a very large dataset or sample traffic. This sort of traffic erosion went on for quite some time and in spite of the world having more people and more Internet traffic, those sites are being left behind.
From what we have heard, Microsoft already restricts more and more non-Web traffic in github.com, so one might expect increases in the metrics... but no.
The latest wave of LinkedIn layoffs (several hundreds laid off) was just days before Thanksgiving. Expect more of the same.
People who regularly use LinkedIn probably noticed fake (but personalised) messages and fake notifications trying to upgrade users to "pro" or "premium" or whatever they call it. That started not so long ago and it shows that LinkedIn may be struggling for its very survival. As far as we know, Github is just making losses all the time and was never profitable since its inception. Microsoft overpaid for it - for negative purposes of course (sabotage and control over one's opposition). █