In short
Checking into an event in the App opens a set of tools built for one purpose: helping the right two people in a room of several hundred find each other. You choose tags that describe what you are about, browse attendees ranked by how well they match, post what you are looking for, and send connection requests that the other person accepts or declines.
The mechanism underneath is worth understanding before you pick a single tag. The event’s tag palette is built in pairs. A tag can name its counterpart, and the strongest matches the App shows you are not people who chose the same tags as you — they are people who chose the other half of yours. Choosing tags that flatter you produces a worse list than choosing tags that are accurate.
On this page
The Events screen
Events has three tabs — Discover, Near you and Your events. Scanning an event’s Mark opens its event page, where you check in. See Finding events: Discover, Near you and Your events and Scanning an event Mark.
Getting into an event
An event usually starts with a scan. When the organizer has set the event’s Linxy Mark — on a badge, a lanyard, a table card or a screen — to open the event, scanning it with the App opens the event page; tap Check in there and the App lands you on the event’s own screen. Events you have checked in to are also under Your events, and once an event has ended its page offers People you met.
On the event’s own screen, three states are possible, and each says so plainly. You’re checked in means everything is open to you. Check In Now means the event is live and waiting for you to say you are here. Check-in is not open yet means the organizer has not started it — nothing is wrong, and the same Mark will work later.
What is on the event screen
The top of the screen carries the event’s name, its category and type, and where it is being held. Until you check in, Going, Maybe and Interested buttons let you say whether you plan to come; they disappear once you are checked in. Below that sit the attendance figures — how many people are checked in, or how many are attending where check-in has not started — with a short row of faces and a count of the rest.
If you opened the event’s featured content from its event page during this visit, a Featured content · Watch again tile sits above the tools. Under Explore are four tools, each with its own color, plus one that only appears when the organizer has switched it on.
| Tool | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Your tags | Telling the event what you are about. The tile shows how many you may pick |
| People here | Attendees, ranked by how well they match you. The tile shows how many are checked in |
| Interests | What people are looking for right now, and where you post your own (the screen is called Active Interests) |
| Connections | People you’ve met: requests waiting for your answer, and the people you are connected with. Carries a badge when a request is waiting |
| Event group chat | The group conversation. Present only when the organizer has enabled it |
Tags, and the pairing that drives everything
Each event has its own palette of tags, grouped into categories and written by the organizer for that event. You choose a limited number — the event sets the limit (twelve unless the organizer changed it), and the Your tags tile shows it.
What makes the palette more than a list of labels is that a tag can name a counterpart. “Looking for investment” is paired with “Investing”; “Hiring” is paired with “Looking for work”. That pairing is what the matching runs on.
People, and the four filters
| Filter | Who you get |
|---|---|
| All Matches | Everyone who matches you at all, ranked counterparts first, then people who share your tags |
| Complementary | Only counterparts — the people whose tags pair with yours |
| Aligned | Only people who chose the same tags you did |
| Everyone | The whole checked-in room, unranked |
All Matches is the default and the one to stay on for most of an event. Complementary earns its place late in the day when time is short and you want only the people there is business to do with. Aligned is for finding your own kind — peers, a professional group, people at the same stage. Everyone is the fallback when you are looking for one named person rather than a type.
Active Interests
Tags say what you are. An interest says what you want, right now, at this event — a specific, short-lived posting rather than a standing description. The event decides which kinds of interest can be posted, and the feed can be filtered by kind.
- Post your own with the + button (or Post an Interest when the feed is empty): a headline of up to 160 characters, and details if you like. Everyone checked in can see it.
- Connect straight from a posting — the same connect sheet the People screen uses.
- Report a posting that does not belong at the event. It goes to the organizer with your reason attached.
Connecting with someone
Sending a request runs in a fixed order, and the first step happens before you can type anything.
- A check runs first. The App asks the event whether this connection is permitted at all — whether the other person is open to requests, whether either of you has blocked the other, and whether the event’s own rules allow it. Send stays disabled until that comes back clear.
- You see who they are. Their name and picture, with their title and company where they gave them.
- You add an introduction. The box says Add an intro message (optional), but one short message that arrives with the request is what gets it accepted. Then tap Send Connection Request.
- They accept or decline. Nothing exists between you until they do.
If the check says no, the sheet shows the reason — for example This connection is not available or A connection request is already pending — and there is nothing to send.
Where an event connection goes afterwards
An accepted event connection is an ordinary Connection. It appears in your main Connections list under People, it carries the Private badge like any other person-to-person relationship, and the conversation continues after the event ends. The event was the introduction; it is not a container the relationship lives inside.
That is the practical reason to accept and decline honestly on the day rather than accepting everything to be polite. A connection made at a conference in March is still in your list in September.
Symptoms, causes and fixes
| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Check-in is not open yet | The organizer has not started check-in | Nothing to fix. The same Mark works once they do |
| The People list is nearly empty | You have not chosen tags, or only one | Open Your tags and use the event’s allowance |
| Good matches, but none of them are useful | You are on Aligned, seeing people like you | Switch to Complementary or All Matches |
| A tag will not select | You are at the event’s limit | Deselect one first. The count is shown above the palette |
| The connect sheet shows Checking..., or a note instead of the Send button | The check has not returned, or the connection is not allowed | Wait a moment. If a note such as This connection is not available stays, that person is not open to requests |
| There is no Event group chat tile | The organizer has not enabled group chat for this event | Not something you can turn on. Use direct connections |
| Someone accepted but you cannot find them | They are now in your main Connections list, not in the event | Look under People in Connections |
| Your interest posting is getting no response | Postings are for this event and go stale quickly | Post a new one that says what you want now |
Things people commonly get wrong
Related reading: Your Connections in the App, Types of Connection, Consent, and what each side can see, Scanning with the App, Messages in the App, and Replying to an invitation.