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Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by eigenket »

scarlehoff wrote: post #29

I believe this site is missing a very important thing, direct links to the different categories with a list of papers. This is at least how I (and I believe many others) browse arXiv. I open it up in the morning, scroll through a few categories and open a few papers that look interesting to me. I could see myself using alphaxiv for that, and then, if there's a comment section, I might even read it, and, who knows, le…

It sounds like what you want is scirate. As far as I understand from this post this new thing is just scirate but lacking the interface you're talking about here.

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by Sophira »

tc4v wrote: post #30
w-m wrote: post #4

Hey alphaxiv, you won’t let me claim some of my preprints, because there’s no match with the email address. Which there can’t be, as we’re only listing a generic first.last@org addresses in the papers. Tried the claiming process twice, nothing happened. Not all papers are on Orcid, so that doesn’t help. I think it’ll be hard growing a discussion platform, if there’s barriers of entry like that to even populate your p…

I know you don't have a lifetime access to institutional email adress, but using a fake address is so counterproductive. You're only going to claim the paper once, and yuh ou should do it while you have access to your email. Then you update your account eith a new address.

Let's say that John Smith at XYZ Corp has authored a paper. The company obviously wants recognition and so they use their corporate email address "jsmith@xyz.com".

John has since moved on and is earning more at ABC Corp instead. XYZ Corp has duly reclaimed John's old email address, and John cannot receive emails at said address any longer.

This is the situation the OP is in. It was never a "fake email address". They did not literally type "first.last@org", that was an example suitable for using in their comment.

[edit: I'm actually wrong with that last statement, as it turns out. While it wasn't a fake email address, the situation is slightly more nuanced in that OP actually did say "{first}.{last}@hhi.fraunhofer.de" in the paper, as there were multiple authors who all had the same email address format - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41479618. I still think this is a valid method, though, and it's certainly not fake. Besides, the problem I outlined sounds like it probably remains an issue even if it's not the exact problem OP is experiencing.]

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by foven »

eigenket wrote: post #32

What's the main thing that this new website adds over scirate?

I admit to not really being familiar with either, but it seems that this allows you to display comments alongside the paper in the browser, which is a very nice feature (and overall has a nicer coat of paint). At first blush, I find it a bit more difficult to figure out what the point of scirate is and how it should be used.

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by samstave »

phreeza wrote: post #5
w-m wrote: post #4

Hey alphaxiv, you won’t let me claim some of my preprints, because there’s no match with the email address. Which there can’t be, as we’re only listing a generic first.last@org addresses in the papers. Tried the claiming process twice, nothing happened. Not all papers are on Orcid, so that doesn’t help. I think it’ll be hard growing a discussion platform, if there’s barriers of entry like that to even populate your p…

How would you propose making claiming possible without the risk of hijacking/misrepresentation?

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Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by rsp1984 »

karmakurtisaani wrote: post #3

I remember seeing this idea some years ago. I think it was called qrxiv.org or something like that, but can't find it anymore. I hope this one has better luck, getting the users in the fragmented space of preprints can be a challenge.

I launched gotit.pub [1] last year. It's very much the same thing.

[1] https://gotit.pub

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by w-m »

Sophira wrote: post #33
tc4v wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know you don't have a lifetime access to institutional email adress, but using a fake address is so counterproductive. You're only going to claim the paper once, and yuh ou should do it while you have access to your email. Then you update your account eith a new address.

Let's say that John Smith at XYZ Corp has authored a paper. The company obviously wants recognition and so they use their corporate email address "jsmith@xyz.com". John has since moved on and is earning more at ABC Corp instead. XYZ Corp has duly reclaimed John's old email address, and John cannot receive emails at said address any longer. This is the situation the OP is in. It was never a "fake email address". They…

OP here, what I'm actually using is "{first}.{last}@hhi.fraunhofer.de" (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.13299). I see how my earlier comment was confusing.

In our case it's for saving space in the paper, and also for reducing spam. This small change may now seem silly in the age of LLMs, but the papers that have full email addresses in them get a considerable amount of fake conference and journal participation emails, which is annoying.

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by Sophira »

auggierose wrote: post #19
w-m wrote: post #4

Hey alphaxiv, you won’t let me claim some of my preprints, because there’s no match with the email address. Which there can’t be, as we’re only listing a generic first.last@org addresses in the papers. Tried the claiming process twice, nothing happened. Not all papers are on Orcid, so that doesn’t help. I think it’ll be hard growing a discussion platform, if there’s barriers of entry like that to even populate your p…

Upload a new version of your paper on arxiv, this time with an email address that works.

Why should they need to? Their email address did work at the time of publication.

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by w-m »

phreeza wrote: post #5
w-m wrote: post #4

Hey alphaxiv, you won’t let me claim some of my preprints, because there’s no match with the email address. Which there can’t be, as we’re only listing a generic first.last@org addresses in the papers. Tried the claiming process twice, nothing happened. Not all papers are on Orcid, so that doesn’t help. I think it’ll be hard growing a discussion platform, if there’s barriers of entry like that to even populate your p…

How would you propose making claiming possible without the risk of hijacking/misrepresentation?

The data on which authors are part of which arxiv papers is already in the arXiv database, and in Google Scholar, and in other libraries. I appreciate that it's not an easy task to get that as a third party. But the burden should be on the operators of alphaxiv to figure out a solution for this platform to take off, not for me as a user?

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by Sophira »

w-m wrote: post #37
Sophira wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's say that John Smith at XYZ Corp has authored a paper. The company obviously wants recognition and so they use their corporate email address "jsmith@xyz.com". John has since moved on and is earning more at ABC Corp instead. XYZ Corp has duly reclaimed John's old email address, and John cannot receive emails at said address any longer. This is the situation the OP is in. It was never a "fake email address". They…

OP here, what I'm actually using is "{first}.{last}@hhi.fraunhofer.de" ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.13299 ). I see how my earlier comment was confusing. In our case it's for saving space in the paper, and also for reducing spam. This small change may now seem silly in the age of LLMs, but the papers that have full email addresses in them get a considerable amount of fake conference and journal participation emails, w…

Oh, I see - the situation's more nuanced than I thought, then. My apologies.

I still think this is valid (and certainly not the fake email address that people are calling it), but yeah, it's not what I thought it was.

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