Honestly this only touches a small fraction of how absurd the whole publishing system with conferences is. I mean just thing about some obvious issues: Large p

Honestly this only touches a small fraction of how absurd the whole publishing system with conferences is. I mean just thing about some obvious issues: Large parts of computer science limit how much science they can publish (and thus effectively share with others) by the number of conferences people want to organize. There's also a very obvious discrimination issue, as most "high tier" conferences are either in the US or (to a lesser extent) in the EU. And it's pretty crazy that people do transatlantic flights to go to a conference in order to publish a paper, even if they don't really want to go to the conference.