I was wondering if anyone is using Academia.edu and how they use it. Do you wait until you have some published papers to upload or do you put things up you are currently working on. I have not used it at all yet but was thinking of signing up

I've not used it. I was thinking of joining a similar site, www.researchgate.net, but thought I should probably wait until I had a publication to put on there.

It's an odd one. The pages are quite ugly, hard to customise, some of the sections are rendered in very small font and it has few added features. And yet, it scores very highly in Google search rankings. That's the only reason I bother maintaining my page there.

I, and many of my peers, do have profiles but I'm not aware that any of us are particularly active users.