[swyx]

pardon if this is ignorant but i mean now that arxiv is well established, what is the barrior to “publish papers on your own” if you dont particularly care about the journal reputation (and those that do probably dont pull this kind of scummy stunt)

[tokinonagare]

I would be as happy so just share a PDF on my website and send it to people who care but if I want to go back in academia somedays I need "real" publications and those are count by universities administration only when done in existing journals and conferences count (also arxiv et al. are not used in the fields I could publish in).