In some fields, like machine learning, many researchers put their work onto arxiv. There is like 50 papers a day now. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ML/recent
40 years ago, when articles went into print publications, you'd just get your paper into a key print journal and then trust that everyone who gets it would at least look through the article headlines and read the abstracts of articles that seemed relevant to them. And it was manageable because you'd only have a few new issues rolling in per month.
But arXiv had an average of 167 CS papers being submitted per day in 2021. An academic who wants to keep their career alive needs to resort to every trick in the book to be heard above that din.
CS folks are not really used to upload their papers on the arXiv.
Maybe not to the same extent as physics people, but there is still a lot of CS on arXiv. More so in some subfields than others, but there's a pretty steady stream of CS papers showing up there. Enough that one person can't keep up with reading and digesting all of them as they appear.
That said, I don't disagree that there's a lot more physics than CS on arXiv. :-) I'm just not sure if that's because CS people don't upload to arXiv, or because CS people publish fewer papers in general, or "other".
ArXiv feeds are organized by category (more like tags in that papers could be cross-listed, but need a primary category). Daily traffic in different categories is very different. Eg, at some point I used to subscribe to hep-ph/hep-th/gr-qc and they combined to something between 50-100 papers a day. I’d mostly just scan the titles/abstracts, to pull out particularly interesting papers.
There are about article 500 submissions per day to arxiv [0]. I don't know what the number of monthly active users is for scirate.com, but the density of comments might be expected to be low.
I actually just manually check arxiv every morning for the new submissions in my field. It's like getting in the habit of browsing reddit except with a lot less cute animal pictures (maybe because I'm not in biology).
Like 100 papers you would need to skim every day :|.
There should be arxiv reddit mode :/
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