Interesting! My first thought went to fermats library, as that's doing something very (and quite well I think) but they don't have a voting system
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#42Really great - I signed up.
One useful feature might be for the index to show one-sentence blurbs about each paper (in addition to the title of the paper itself). Unless I'm reading papers very specific to my subfield, I need some context to know what I'm looking at & why it's important. Otherwise I fear that only articles with the most accessible titles (or disciplines whose titles tend to be most accessible) will be clicked, read & upvoted.
I would hope that the nature of the type of people who read scientific papers is to avoid sensationalizing too much (like popular science journalism does).
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#43I was thinking of a similar thing for discussion about books as well. Especially since the official site of a book is usuallly not suitable for that (no forum or separate login per publisher etc.) Or in the case of Pragmatic Programmers not accessible, if you click on discussion forum at https://pragprog.com/book/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-functi... you get redirected to: https://forums.pragprog.com/fosta-sesta Anyo…
On goodreads.com you can review book yourself and also discuss with other reviewers. There are also groups ( https://www.goodreads.com/group ) which works like forum.
I personally prefer LibraryThing. Goodreads has been very diluted, and there is a rather large amount of rating inflation there - the rating of a book is almost meaningless now.
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#44I was thinking of a similar thing for discussion about books as well. Especially since the official site of a book is usuallly not suitable for that (no forum or separate login per publisher etc.) Or in the case of Pragmatic Programmers not accessible, if you click on discussion forum at https://pragprog.com/book/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-functi... you get redirected to: https://forums.pragprog.com/fosta-sesta Anyo…
I often wish I could connect with people who are reading or have read the same books as me. I think that's what GoodReads is for, but I haven't really looked into it. Edit: looks like it's just for reviews.
>I often wish I could connect with people who are reading or have read the same books as me
LibraryThing has that feature, although the algorithm is not super smart. When I first created an account, I put in all the books I could remember that I had read. Then I clicked on the link to find other users most like me. The top one had a whole series of books that I had read and completely forgotten to add to my catalog. It was uncanny - I couldn't think of any heuristic - they were all mystery novels, and I had almost none in my collection.
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#45Really great - I signed up. One useful feature might be for the index to show one-sentence blurbs about each paper (in addition to the title of the paper itself). Unless I'm reading papers very specific to my subfield, I need some context to know what I'm looking at & why it's important. Otherwise I fear that only articles with the most accessible titles (or disciplines whose titles tend to be most accessible) will b…
Thank you very much for the feedback. Do you think it has to be in the front page -under each link, perhaps?
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#46Interesting! My first thought went to fermats library, as that's doing something very (and quite well I think) but they don't have a voting system
Yes, Fermat’s library is amazing. But I wanted have a community exactly like lobsters and HN. It’s super easy to read and post.
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#47One piece of feedback I have is to be careful with tagging. What is physics to a biologist [1] is probably not physics to a physicist. If you want communities to build around this hub, then you need to be careful about flooding a small community with unrelated topics because a larger community is more active on the internet. This looks neat otherwise and I joined. [1] https://paperkast.com/s/mbiq74/maximum_entropy_mo…
Good point. I would say that as the community grows, there will be more and more tags and therefore specialization. Do you think it’s better to stick with broad tags like Physics or Genetics, rather than Synthetic Biology or Quantum Mechanics? I would say the latter would be much better.
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#49Excellent! May I suggest a tag for imaging research? And/or radiology?
Yes. Any user can suggest a tag by creating a post with ‘meta’ tag. And according to the comments from other members, it can be added.
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#50Can't access your app. Looks like it has crashed.
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