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Comment by bonoboTP

4 months ago

Do you mean that the CPU compute cost of turning latex into pdf/HTML is the main cost?

No, I mean that the pipeline requires software engineers to build/maintain, and salaries are (as in basically every tech organisation) the dominant cost

  • Then drop it and make people upload a pdf and a zip of the latex sources.

    Most people I talk to hate that pipeline and spend a lot of debug hours on it when Arxiv can't compile what overleaf and your local latex install can.