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For me getting alerted when there are new papers that cite papers that are relevant towards my current research topic would be ideal. Google scholars has alerts on authors and search queries but for me they don't have enough recall.

Its much easier to tell when a paper is relevant for me if it happens to cite 3 of the commonly used datasets for my particular task.

btw I use arxiv-sanity, its pretty great, thanks a lot!

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Thanks! Email alerts are one of top requested features, it's definitely on my shortlist for the next feature to incorporate.

Another feature I'd like to add is an ability to follow people, but I'm worried about the exact implementation since the current assumed contract is that your library is private.

One more feature of course I hear about often are comments, but I'm afraid of the site disintegrating into YouTube comments. I think comments have to be done very carefully and would require significantly higher code complexity to incorporate moderation tools, etc. Tricky and non-trivial not just implementation wise but design-wise, incentive-wise, etc.

Draft help from your readers. There have to be a few who want to contribute.

Consider having a minimum number of characters or words for comments. It's basically the opposite of twitter, and would result in people having to actually put some effort into their comments. Also I've found that even on youtube, if the comments are moderated, the degenerates stop showing up.

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