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I had been using the Academia from last 5 years, its been amazing with the website. It helped me to upload and publish my articles to the people. Its the most convenient way to find more stuff for reading and acknowledging the work by the people in your field. But after the app comes in it became a part of day to day life because now we can use it on the go anyway anywhere anytime. Thank you for this app and website.

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I’ve used academia for a good few months now and have enjoyed it. However, recently, I’ve run into a key issue that pretty much hamstrings it. Any time I try to actually read an article, the article’s text simply doesn’t load. The “About” and “Related” sections load near instantly, but the “Read” section, the actual text of the article I’m wanting to use, never does. I could understand if it were a matter of these articles being paywalled like some results on the app are (even if I find paywalling content when features are already paywalled disagreeable, but that’s a minor issue), but there’s no prompt alerting me to needing to be a premium member or the like, just an infinite loading screen. This says nothing of the hard crashes caused by going to specific papers from the links Academia will periodically email to me. Academia is still useful for keeping track of particular scholars and publications in my field, but right now, it’s useless for what I actually want to use it for: reading the articles that it helps me to find.

Small inconveniences aside having access to this material is invaluable. Wish list is that it would enable reading turned 90 degrees. At least on my iPad it doesn't reformat when turned. And maybe this would an aside to the app but sure would be nice if this could some how be made compatible with Kindle which much lighter and easier to carry around than an iPad. I should add I am not an academic so I am only using the app to read, never uploading anything. At least I am able to save material to iBooks for collecting and organizing.

Academia is fills an important gap that has existed for too long. It provides a venue for publication of important ideas that used to go unpublished because of the referee system that has been so very often abused to the bane of every field. Academia allows scholars and researchers to choose what we want spent our time reading. We all understand that some misuse this venue, but on the main, in my experience, Academia is a breath of fresh air.

Great idea and an ambitious start, but the app is severely flawed. When I try to follow a scholar, the interaction seems to trigger an event and it will temporarily tell me I’m following this person, but if I leave that profile and come back I can see that the relationship has not persisted. This and a couple of other little bugs are the reasons I only rate it at 3 stars. I absolutely love what this could be and I hope the kinks get worked out and this app sees a lot of much needed attention from the developers.