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Re:Show HN: Read ArXiv Papers on Semantic Scholar as Respons... by undfined on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:27PM (#16450177)
(I also work on the Semantic Scholar team)

1. Totally agree. We know how we can / will do this and plan to do so given enough interest in the MVP reading experience.

2. The url structure is indeed for SEO purposes. (We get a large majority of users discovering our paper pages through organic search)

Re:Show HN: Read ArXiv Papers on Semantic Scholar as Respons... by detaro on Saturday February 24, 2018 @01:38PM (#16454582)
The proposed shorter format could maybe be a redirect then? Quickly being able to turn one link into the other would be quite useful.
Re:Show HN: Read ArXiv Papers on Semantic Scholar as Respons... by thecodeviking on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:36PM (#16486616)
Definitely, thanks!