{"id":13315,"date":"2025-03-28T03:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T07:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13315"},"modified":"2025-03-28T03:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T07:23:13","slug":"friend-of-arxiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13315","title":{"rendered":"Friend of arXiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I am a friend of arXiv. It&#8217;s true. I may have been critical of some of their processes from time to time, but I appreciate the absolutely invaluable service that they provide.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, I am a friend of theirs. And now it&#8217;s official! They sent me this nice certificate, recognizing my contribution, responding to their request to help test a new upload page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13317\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/friend-of-arXiv-2025.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was, by my count, one of 79 folks who did so. I am surprised; I expected more. I also feel a bit guilty that I only tested their new submission system once. (It was glitch-free, apart from some issue with HTML generation that, as far as I know, was not even part of the actual test.) Still, it is nice that they sent us these little certificates. It may not pay the bills or buy groceries, but I am proud to be their friend.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13315' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I am a friend of arXiv. It&#8217;s true. I may have been critical of some of their processes from time to time, but I appreciate the absolutely invaluable service that they provide. So yes, I am a friend of theirs. And now it&#8217;s official! They sent me this nice certificate, recognizing my contribution, responding <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13315' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science","category-35-id","category-48-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13320,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13315\/revisions\/13320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}