upvote.pub
Learning and science
academic discussion platform
SHOW HN2018
275points
107comments
#101of 2,155 in 2018
Top 5%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
8 positive, 40 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 24 critical, out of 74 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Idea: 7 for, 11 againstDesign: 1 for, 11 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Good idea and slick site
From 2 comments
Really, really, really cool. Site looks slick. I would definitely use this if there were more users (the old chicken and egg problem ...). My suggestion is not to restrict it…
Rainymood on HNThis is awesome! One suggestion I should make: I think it would be nice to have the abstract underneath the title of the paper so I can skim to see what the doc is about before…
sinab on HN
Annotation and discussion of papers would be valuable
From 2 comments
Great job! I had thought of building something like this before. Some ideas I'd toyed with were: - A tool for annotation so that people could comment on specific portions of…
kiliantics on HNThe first thing you mentioned, annotations, or maybe even inline Q&A/discussions, was my dream in grad school (math). I imagined something like a separate MathOverflow for each…
throwaway080383 on HN
Objections
Restricting to academic email addresses excludes independent researchers
From 2 comments
I completely understand the issue of not wanting spam of various sorts broadly defined, but I do think restricting it to academic addresses is a huge mistake. As an established…
o2348diuu on HN> I do think restricting it to academic addresses is a huge mistake I have to agree. I'm no academic for almost 10 years, now, yet I've spent the last three years working with…
Arkanosis on HN
Thumbnails are not useful and the layout is too sparse
From 3 comments
Really like the site! Not an academic but i was wondering why the thumbnail? They all look pretty much the same, why would I want to see a thumbnail of lot of text?
Kamshak on HNCool, but personally when I hear something as being HN/reddit style, I think of of the listings being pretty compact (submittable, votable listings are done on many other…
torgoguys on HNFor non-mobile, increase the size of all of the text. You have a lot of room to work with, there's no reason for text to be so tiny. That includes the upvote arrow & text, and…
adventured on HN
Upvote/karma model is poor for research discussion
From 1 comment
I’m a researcher and I also think reddit and upvotes/karma is trash. Why should I use your service?
taylorexpander on HN
Requests
Allow non-academic emails such as .gov and .mil or alternate verification
From 4 comments
Can you please allow .mil and .gov addresses? Those "government scientists" add up to a lot of researchers.
killjoywashere on HNPerhaps they can add support for alternate emails - sign up with your primary academic email, add a secondary. When a user leaves an institution, they can promote the secondary.
politician on HN> Let me know if you have any thoughts/ideas Many papers list authors' email addresses. Scrape PDFs on the services you support for email addresses. If a domain name occurs in…
throwawayjava on HNHow about doing a scraping of e.g. 10k Google Scholar profiles with more than ~10 publications to get the domains of their verified email addresses? Then you have a much broader…
semi-extrinsic on HN
Add more subject areas beyond biology
From 3 comments
It seems really skewed towards biology publications, is it on purpose ?
fuklief on HNSome idea for other subs: Computer Science/Maths/Physics should be the most common I think Also https://eprint.iacr.org/ is used a lot for publishing crypto preprints
fuklief on HNIf there are any subs you would like to have added please let me know. Currently, I know the site is restricted to biology and a small stats section but I can easily add…
danielecook on HN
Add PsyArXiv and other preprint servers
From 2 comments
Do you plan to add PsyArXiv? (https://psyarxiv.com/)
khr on HNSome idea for other subs: Computer Science/Maths/Physics should be the most common I think Also https://eprint.iacr.org/ is used a lot for publishing crypto preprints
fuklief on HN
Show abstracts under titles
From 1 comment
This is awesome! One suggestion I should make: I think it would be nice to have the abstract underneath the title of the paper so I can skim to see what the doc is about before…
sinab on HN
Questions
What is the target audience, researchers or the general public?
From 2 comments
So one question: who is your target audience? Is it the layman/citizen researcher who might want to read academic publications? Or is it more meant to apply peer review to…
Vinnl on HNI have thought about a site like this before (as I'm sure many have)! One thing I thought about is how do you keep noise out of the comments while maintaining engagement with the…
pwillia7 on HN
How is the academic email filter implemented?
From 2 comments
How did you implement the academic email filter? Where did you get the domain list? I just have registered my account with a none .edu email address.
doomjunky on HNOps, I meant to ask how they were validating academic addresses. I'm actually a postdoc, but my university domain is @upv.es, and I've found that sometimes it doesn't get…
JorgeGT on HN
Alternatives named
SciRate
From 1 comment
See also SciRate, which is mildly popular in the quantum info community. http://www.scirate.com
jessriedel on HN
arxiver
From 1 comment
You might want to investigate having a mode where you can see some of the figures from each paper. This works very well for astronomical arxiv papers: http://arxiver.moonhats.com/
xioxox on HN
ORCID login as a verification method
From 1 comment
Seconded. I'm not an academic but I deal with academic publishing and I might want to participate. My suggestion: use ORCiD.org for authentication with OAuth. This is a…
afandian on HN