What has happened with the [Publications of the $n$Lab](https://ncatlab.org/publications/published/HomePage)? They seem to have published only a couple of articles back in 2011, 2012. A little search i made was not very enlightening. 


Has the project been discontinued? If yes why? 


(In principle, the idea seemed to be pursuing an alternative, electronic, publishing system with a public and transparent peer-review process. But it seems it didn't work as expected. Was the focus too narrowlly limited? Or is there some other reason?) 



What has happened with the Publications of the $n$Lab?
[This is not an official nLab position, just my take]


Sadly, the current system of academia [actively disincentivises](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5206685/) such novel experiments. It's hard enough to set up a new journal to effectively replace a journal run by some for-profit shareholder-pleasing company, although it [has been](http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence) and [can still be](https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/how-to-start-flip-open-access-academic-journal/) done, with a lot of goodwill and determination by sub-communities of the mathematics world. Setting up a wiki-journal is even less respected.


The [Steering Committee of the nLab](https://ncatlab.org/nlabmeta/show/steering+committee) (which doesn't run it, officially) hasn't done a post-mortem, or tried to dig into why [the journal](https://ncatlab.org/publications/published/HomePage) didn't take off. But it's clear from the relative lack of 'official' recognition [Urs](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Urs+Schreiber) had gotten, for instance¹, for having the largest hand in creating a piece of impressive scholarship, that some kind of journal run along the same lines and asking others to risk their careers is not going to be a roaring success.


Recall that 2012 was '[peak Elsevier](http://thecostofknowledge.com/)', people were quite fired up and willing to think about new things, even if briefly. But look at [a really serious attempt](https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/forum-of-mathematics-pi-and-forum-of-mathematics-sigma/) to change publishing by Fields Medallists at that time: *[Forum of Mathematics: Pi](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/forum-of-mathematics-pi)*, which [published three (3) articles](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/forum-of-mathematics-pi/volume/01F1E9B6DCF4D2EE542DC17AC8197077) last year, compared to the 33 in the *[Annals](http://annals.math.princeton.edu/)* (the intended competition), over 6 issues. (to compare: *[FoM:Sigma](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/forum-of-mathematics-sigma)* published 24 last year, fairly respectable given the selective nature)


¹ I mean: he accepted [an affiliation](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Urs_Schreiber) in the Middle East, in addition to his position in Prague, not exactly Scholze-level career recognition :-)


