Do you mean "uploading"? Also as a reader, something being on vixra is an extremely negative signal as to its quality.

Not really. Readers here tend to judge by merit rather than origin.

I was hoping to read this, but the encumbered download process prevented that.

I spent a little time this morning reading thru the vixra sections for some fields I'm familiar with, and it's pretty much all cranks (some of whom have dozens of papers). Like look at this: http://vixra.org/abs/1512.0336 or this : http://vixra.org/abs/1509.0249 or this : http://vixra.org/abs/1504.0227 or even this: http://vixra.org/abs/1504.0134

Some of these makes Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray TimeCube rants seem cohesive and well thought out.

You can also just scroll down and read the article on the page.

Prefer to read in Papers or LiquidText, but Academia wants my contact list first which is a special kind of scummy.

    academia.edu would like to:
    - Know who you are on Google	
    - View your email address
    - View your basic profile info
    - View your contacts

Thank you. Apparently I'm blind.

Well, it is really non-obvious, to the point that I think they're clearly trying to hide it. The white space expands to push the start of the paper below the fold no matter how large your window is, and the "READ PAPER" text is light grey on white.