Academia.edu problems

I am unable to upload the new published version of a paper to Academia.edu. They don't answer my email queries (after I spent a lot of time trying to find their email question system), so I don't know the source of the problem. Maybe it is their new page style, which I dislike. I uploaded a dummy paper just fine, but when I tried to "edit" it and change the attached file, it stalled, just as with my other paper.

The paper I was trying to post is:

Smith, Michael E.2015    How can Archaeologists Make Better Arguments? The SAA Archaeological Record 15 (4): 18-23.

I had a draft version posted. I managed to delete the file somehow (in preparation for uploading the published reprint), but when I try to upload the new file, the site does not respond. I've tried it from different computers, over the past week. Nothing doing. Is Academia.edu unaware of the problem, or do they know about it but just not bothering to tell anybody? Neither is an attractive possibility.

I stopped updating my home page a couple of months ago, mainly because Academia.edu was easier to use for posting. But I did put a copy of the argument paper on my home page.




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