I also fell into the neovim pit of plugin horrors. The good news is, you can get out, empty completely your config (or rather, go back to vim) and start from scratch with only what you need.

(I now make sure that my config works equally well in vim and neovim so I don't have to worry about the odd server with only one vim)

This is exactly what I thought q when I first read the title.

You will still not see them.

If I understood correctly, the change here is that now those hundreds of e-whores and Ian Miles Cheong will be able to see your posts. So blocking is still the right strategy for what you want (for now).

Please stop - selling our data to advertisers.

For that to work users have to spend money on their services. I hope that will happen in the future, but until then it is hard to compete with free services that has ads.

They probably still track you even if you paid money, so that makes paying less enticing. And it's prudent to assume so unless they clearly state otherwise

That's because you're not paying enough. If you pay enough, you absolutely can get non-tracking products.

Of course, people either aren't willing or can't. Them's the breaks.

The overwhelming majority of ad-supported services do not offer ad-free and surveillance-free alternatives. Heck, even plans literally named “no ads” can still show you ads.

https://help.hulu.com/article/hulu-ads-no-commercials

You don't know what I'd pay. So can you name any popular services that offer that option?

To add, there are estimations about how much ad money average user generates and it's very much affordable

You don't need invasive and pervasive tracking to display ads. Google became an ad behemoth with contextual ads

I believe this site is missing a very important thing, direct links to the different categories with a list of papers. This is at least how I (and I believe many others) browse arXiv. I open it up in the morning, scroll through a few categories and open a few papers that look interesting to me.

I could see myself using alphaxiv for that, and then, if there's a comment section, I might even read it, and, who knows, leave a comment. But there's no way I'm going to be changing the address or going to some other site to search for papers just to see whether there are some comments.

ps: I see the extension adds a "discussion" link to arxiv, it is a pity that it is only available for Chrome.

It sounds like what you want is scirate. As far as I understand from this post this new thing is just scirate but lacking the interface you're talking about here.

Indeed. Scirate (I didn't know about it) looks exactly like that.

Sadly, the last comments in HEP are more than 2 years old (which explains why I had never heard about it, it seems it never gained any traction)

Kinda related, Hypothesis (and Diigo iirc in past) has an extension/bookmarklet that can provide an annotation/comment overlay on any web page/pdf. Guess what is needed for arXiv discussion is this overlay but smarter, that is knows a paper pdf and web view are the same, and abstract page is connected to them.

It was above the norm until a few weeks ago. It is below now, but as someone already mentioned, the active part of the season has just begun. Hopefully it stays like this...

I love it too! As another commenter says, it's like a murder mistery, specially when it is not your code. The only frustrating bit (at least for me) is being just told "there's a crash around here", but once you have a way to reliably reproduce it I enjoy it quite a bit.

I have a Samsung phone because it is the only brand with a stylus in its flagships, but I, too, would like to end my collaboration with them.

I'm currently using fastmail. I wanted something robust and wanted to avoid google. I'm happy with them.

The other option I considered was mailbox.org, but testing the interfaces of both I decided fastmail was a bit nicer to use.

Thanks for sharing

While I guess this is said in jest, during covid times I created a (innecessarily) complex excel with all my bank accounts / sources of income with goals etc... and it really did wonders for my focus and motivation.