I am a non-academic who reads a lot of academic papers.  I love arXiv, and I probably spend too much time on there.<p>Here&#x27;s my 10-minute take on scirate (from viewing it on a mobile browser). Overall, I don&#x27;t immediately see any added value. The layout and design isn&#x27;t great - not on mobile at least. The main view isn&#x27;t optimized for what I want to see.  There&#x27;s a huge navigation tree that takes up all the view space. Then, it shows me a list of ranked papers that are not of interest to me. It forces me to register to access any features. I don&#x27;t see comments on any of the papers, only a Reddit-style rating. Do I have to register to see the comments?  Overall, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d ever go back.  But, maybe it wasn&#x27;t designed with my type of use cases in mind.