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The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv — mentioned by surfTide

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 07:54:34 GMT

> [Submitted on 20 Sep 2017] https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07020

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The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv — mentioned by surfTide

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 07:53:12 GMT

Original submission: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07020 > [Submitted on 20 Sep 2017] Shouldn't this be "(2017)" - original article was submitted in 2017.

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The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv — mentioned by stncls

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:24:58 GMT

The article is not at all by the arXiv people. This is just a paper submitted to arXiv (about arXiv). The confusion is understandable, because the link is to arXiv's experimental HTML5 viewer, not the usual format (which would be: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07020). The authors are from Authorea.com, a for-profit that wants to replace arXiv. Edit: Aside from that, fully agree with you. Good luck to them.

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The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv — mentioned by stncls

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:17:04 GMT

The authors first list some issues with arXiv. Next, they describe how to fix those issues. Then the good news arrives: this improved arXiv already exists. It's called Authorea.com. All three authors are Authorea.com employees. They do disclose it as their affiliation. Still, this is essentially an ad written in LaTeX. They correctly point out a few of the limitations of arXiv (mostly: static LaTeX and PDFs). But I profoundly dislike the other things they propose: 1. "open comments and reviews". I have no problem with open reviews on a third-party website, but arXiv is literally a…

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The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv — HN submission

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 19:14:05 GMT

The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv

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The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv — HN submission

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:46:10 GMT

The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv

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The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv — HN submission

Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:35:06 GMT

The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv

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