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by ivansavz 3038 days ago
Feature idea 1: perhaps you could make references section in the bottom render links, at least for references that provide and arXiv identifier.

Feature idea 2: better/shorter URL structure, the current URL https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/{title}-{authors}/{uui... ends up quite long and unreadable (may be good for SEO though). If you're rendering mostly arXiv papers you could setup a short URL scheme that mirrors the arXiv url paths: e.g if original URL is https://arxiv.org/abs/XXXX.YYYY your URL could be https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/arxiv/XXXX.YYYY

Good stuff!

1 comments

(I also work on the Semantic Scholar team)

1. Totally agree. We know how we can / will do this and plan to do so given enough interest in the MVP reading experience.

2. The url structure is indeed for SEO purposes. (We get a large majority of users discovering our paper pages through organic search)

The proposed shorter format could maybe be a redirect then? Quickly being able to turn one link into the other would be quite useful.
Definitely, thanks!