Alberto_Pepe
Co-Founder | Authorea

Hi there lasserith,
Your criticism is very well taken. We are trying to solve one problem at a time. Right now, we are focused on making collaborative writing as seamless as possible and then becoming a solid preprint repository where (data-driven, interactive) papers are hosted, discovered and read. We are extremely concentrated with the former - as you can see in our open product roadmap - but we do have plans to push on the latter in the new year. Specifically, we will soon allow users to tag their articles with keywords (and we will use that information to build "expertise profiles" for users). Moreover, we will implement our (very limited) [Browse Articles page]() with a powerful search engine system so that papers can actually be searched and found. Finally, we will be making our first step in the direction of publishing by allowing users to mint DOIs for their articles (this is in the product roadmap too). This is a natural move as a lot of content written on Authorea (essays, technical reports, blogs, gray literature) is not meant for publication but authors have requested that they need a way to cite it and refer to it.