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Really 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 itsel
by nsedlet 8y ago
Really 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).
- dogancan 8y agoThank you very much for the feedback. Do you think it has to be in the front page -under each link, perhaps?
- nsedlet 8y agoThat's what I was thinking - maybe something under the link. Could be optional as well. I'd been remembering how Marginal Revolution, which despite having a fairly educated/technical audience, still often writes its own link text when linking to papers: e.g. item #1 here https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/08/saturday-assorted-links-172.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/08/sa... But obviously that would have a big impact on UX for submitters and readers which I haven't thought through in detail!