&gt;To be precise, many journals do have a comment section, but nobody uses it.<p>GitXiv[1] also has a comment section and voting features, and nobody uses it.<p>I know it has a small user base compared to ArXiV, but I think that its format resembles what ArXiv might look like with comments, votes and reproducible code.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitxiv.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitxiv.com&#x2F;</a>