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There are a ton of "personal communication" cites out there that are dead ends. The point of the cite isn't to provide a handy link, though it's nice if it is one, but to hand the credit where the credit is due.

Well it was cited so by definition it's citable.

I don't like discord but... The people doing research have chosen this method of collaboration. I like their research. Let's not be choosing beggars and tell them how to conduct their research.

that post was just an (work in progress) update. Shawn's blog post is a proper announcement - much better than i would have written :)

But papers aren't citable. Somebody needs to archive the paper and make it available through the proper channels (e.g. a website, library, journal, the Internet Archive).