Over the last two years, I’ve been sharing the various challenges that we’ve tolerated while members of various LinkedIn Groups. Before being purchased by Microsoft in June of 2016, the functionality and benefits of the groups were slowly being eroded from within.

I’m pleased to announce that I received the following email from Linkedin last week on the innovative and exciting changes that will breathe new life into our groups in the near future.  

Subject from Linkedin: Integrating Groups into the main LinkedIn experience

We're currently working on making some changes to the Groups experience, and we wanted to give you some advance details on what's coming. Groups is at the heart of what makes LinkedIn a trusted place for professionals to help and support one another, and the changes we're planning will make Groups a bigger part of the main LinkedIn experience.

Our focus on re-integrating Groups back into the core LinkedIn experience means that we will no longer be able to support a standalone iOS app for Groups; that app will stop working as of February 15, 2018. But please know that your existing group memberships and contributions will not be affected as part of that change.

As a preview, here are some of the improvements you can look forward to when we roll them out to the main LinkedIn Groups web and mobile experiences: 

Discover and access Groups more easily. You'll be able to access your Groups right from the homepage, and you'll see the latest content from your Groups in notifications and the homepage feed.