The reason the French can’t build these things is the same reason they shouldn’t be allowed to be in charge. It’s a preprint PDF host. Just make your own if you can run this one.

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magnio 4 hours ago | parent [-]

They do have their own: https://hal.science/

It is actually quite common to come across HAL in subfields of mathematics in my experience.

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renewiltord 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That’s great. People will use whichever one is better.

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bjourne 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

HAL is decidedly second-tier. Given the option, everyone would pick arXiv over HAL. Hence, HAL hosts lots of stuff that didn't (even) make it to arXiv => lots of subpar dredge.

	▲	Miraltar 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> HAL is decidedly second-tier. Given the option, everyone would pick arXiv over HAL. Can you elaborate on that?