this is such a joke of a system. half of the web is a system for peer review already. you could basically repurpose any old forum software like Discourse or Red

this is such a joke of a system. half of the web is a system for peer review already. you could basically repurpose any old forum software like Discourse or Reddit, twitter, mastodon to work as peer review. It's just people commenting on a post! With a system for verifying identity (use official email) and assigning reviewers maybe. Then over here we see a journal publishing this trash that treats their audience as toddlers with amazing tips like "Follow up: after submission, " "Professional networks:.." Mostly I'm just surprised that our smartest people put up with this, when any researcher could ask their CS colleagues to create a replacement over a few weeks. It's a pure social coordination problem, it would only take a few groups of researchers switching to light the fire. It's a preference cascade just waiting for a little nudge.