yeah I don't quite get it either, something still doesn't add up. The behavior from scihub since 2020 has been puzzling. There was some indian court case and that's why they paused new uploads (weird considering that isn't alexandra's jurisdiction or where the domains are I don't think). Some speculate that they thought they could win that case in india and so stopped uploads as a show of compliance to the court.

But I haven't seen any updates newer than 2022 about what's going on legally... And sci-hub still serving up the huge backlog/archive they had thru 2022, which is weird if she's genuinely in legal trouble...

And now this new site... Says the articles are free without signup, but does require a paid signup? And an invitation? Kinda feels like the legal threat has passed and keeping new uploads paused is an attempt to get critical mass of users on the new service (not necessarily to cash out via crypto, but also out of a genuine belief it might solve some of the issues sci-hub had with access to harder to find materials?)

idk what to think overall, still doesn't sit 100% right with me and the radio silence makes it much harder to assume the best