Lot's of scanlators ARE YES DOING ILLEGAL THINGS but just for the benefit of other having to read it for free. If someone uploaded it here in which it is an aggregator site ofcourse they would not be happy because their work is not to be profited of because its made to be free. Stop spreading false information. It is also wise and respectful to not encourage uploaders to share the official translation because A. Official translations has an advatage of being read because it has better quality/ no grammatical errors/to be trusted. B. It alse pays the people who did the translations and cleaning.
The reason behind A. (i forgot to type it) is that it also serves as an lure to get readers to buy it.
I'm a scanlator. I translate, clrd, ts and qc in over a dozen groups. Lot's of scan groups ended because of this issue. Such as Jaimini's Box and Meraki Scans. You shouldn't be making money off scanlating (I'm not saying Leslie's Victims are). Fullstop. I'm not saying that sharing the official translation is good; I'm saying it's better than translating licensed projects, especially if you're translating raws that are ahead of the official English translation. What they're doing is wrong, and they know it. I'm not a fan of aggregator sites that have ads, hence why I use Mangago instead of Newtoki or other similar ones. Don't spread such info.
Secondly, you'd be quite naïve if you think scanlators give a shit about you reading it for free. We do it for fun, others do it for money or views and others probably care about readers or something because they like praise and validation, lol.
Scanlators do give a shit and stop lying. Why do you even think they do discords and their own website. Why do you think they always link their works with passwords? If you think scanlators do it for praise then maybe that's the type of scanlator that you are. Stop bullshitting
Well, I scanlate because I enjoy the teamwork. Groups password protect their folders, so trolls from other groups don't delete them. The one who's bullshitting is you. I've been doing it long enough to know. They make Discords to communicate between themselves and it's easier to find members through scan schools. They make websites to avoid posting on MD, so they don't get caught by the publishers or to make profit. But honestly, we really don't care about your pleasure, lol.
NO, Kanna a scanlator who does the same thing. you can check here tumbler. Is doing it because of uploaders who don't ask for permission. Discord is not only for communicating but its is also where they notify the members if there's an update. Discord is also a server where they can only share their work so uploaders have to ask for persmission.
That's one reason, too. You missed the point though. Kanna doesn't represent the thousands of staff who scanlate. Most of us genuinely don't care about you. Have you seen the way BL/ Isekai groups talk about Mangago readers in general? Lol.
Ignore them, pretty sure they’re lying about something. Tried to claim Leslie was making money off of views (how tf does that work??) and that all scans with websites are gaining a profit (while claiming to work with two scans who have a website) and when I called them out on it they deleted their message.
Yeah, that was a mistake. I don't work with ZS or RSS anymore since they got mainstream. I'm currently on a hiatus, and I'm only working on solo projects. I deleted my message, so I don't spread misinfo. I still stand by my point: Leslie's Victims are wrong. They shouldn't be translating a licensed manhwa. This is why I left a lot of groups like Sunny Side Up and Sugar Babies. I'm not against having a website; I have one myself to post novel translations, but I'm against the aforementioned actions. I'm saying to not read it on their site, so they can get discovered and hopefully stop what they're doing as there's no excuse to not support the authors. No one gives a shit if you've worked hard. At the end of the day, you're a criminal.
They're working on a licensed project. BMG already has an English translation; they only want views. I much prefer the ones who upload the official translation but wait, so the creators can gain profit rather than these imbeciles. If you upload on other sites, the original publishers can find it and DMCA them. Hence, they'd have to stop working on it, and they should. The official tl is only 1 or 2 chapters behind; I haven't checked. Read, upload, share their chapters. No one gives a shit. You can't be expecting to do something illegal then complain when people do illegal things with it