Just as an example of how Open Access journals can gain a huge respect from the community, the following post sums up the success of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, an Open Access journal run by a volunteer editorial board:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficien...

Elsevier should understand that it is the editorial board that matters, not who prints the paper.

The great majority of that page is unused whitespace, and then the article itself is written in text so tiny that it's almost illegible. If I were a decade older, you could remove the word "almost" from that statement. If you're involved in web design in any way, I beg you: have mercy on the eyes of your readers, and use big enough text to be readable.

I know this is off-topic, but there's a certain threshold where poor typography overwhelms the content itself, and for me this crosses it. Which is a shame, since scientific journal reform is kind of important.

Is it not time for a GitHub for publications?

The problem is keeping the quality high, which can only be done with editors, which cost money.