Post #1331558

@Enthalpiste @wwhitlow well that was the idea behind publishing reform: to move from the bottleneck of journals to a kind of crowd sourced evaluation. But that shift is exactly what is breaking here. arXiv isn’t a journal, it’s a preprint server, that is, the first step in the new architecture that was meant to make those transitions away from traditional journals possible… the underlying problem is scale… there are only so many human experts available to the system… and we’ve moved beyond their capacity