Use latest article versions about ar5iv

[dginev]

Deletions make ar5iv look even less competitive to arXiv, which is why I have no issue with them. Manually updating to the newest version brings the question, again, of - "is ar5iv trying to be a live preview site?"

I would like to take all the energy from "this site would be amazing if it used the latest versions" and direct it at the arXiv team -- "hey, if you work with ar5iv, they'll make it much better". I think that's a win-win-win proposition.

[dginev]

I certainly agree with the underlying problem -- I would also prefer to have had the most recent version of all arXiv articles. This hinges on a technicality, where the distributed sources are not updated, so most of them stick at v1.

I'll keep the issue open waiting for the ultimate resolution of the issue -- if ar5iv is adopted under the arXiv umbrella, I can put in the work to serve the latest version, without relying on those source bundles. Until it is, I would like to avoid an appearance of competing with their live site, so I will stick to whichever version was found in the republished sources.

Thanks for the request!

[apaleyes]

Makes sense!

Would it be possible to update the ar5iv version manually though, on request? Similarly to what is already done with deletions?

[apaleyes]

sensible position, thanks for taking the trouble to explain it