MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 1, SEE BELOW
Philosopher Ken Gemes (Birkbeck) writes:
Some users of academia.edu are presently having severe problems editing their academia.edu webpages. These problems are ongoing and academia.edu are not providing timely or helpful responses. For others having such problems I suggest not trying to work with academia.edu at least until the problems are solved, otherwise one risks both frustration and substantial and pointless loss of time.
UPDATE (9/30): Richard Price, founder and CEO of academia.edu, asked me to share this message he sent to Ken Gemes:
Dear Ken, thank you for raising this. The edit bug is affecting a small percentage of users. It's dependent on a particular configuration of browser and operating system, and our engineers haven't yet been able to identify the problematic configuration, and reproduce the bug. We are arranging skype calls today with users to watch the bug appearing. That should help us figure out what's going on, and fix the issue. We realize this is frustrating. We apologize for the inconvenience while we get to the bottom of this.
Richard Price,
Founder, Academia.edu"
ANOTHER (10/1): Huw Price (Cambridge) asked me to share the following message he sent to Richard Price:
Thank you for responding to Ken's complaint. Another thing that many of us dislike about academia.edu, as I suspect you must be aware, is that downloading is hidden behind a login wall. Could you fix that, too, perhaps, while you are in problem-solving mode?
I'll open this for any additional comments/suggestions about academia.edu.
OCTOBER 5 UPDATE: Ken Gemes (Birkbeck) writes that the site has "successfully addressed the technical problems that were previously affecting some users."
