I always wondered. Can’t they place placeholder after posting the latest chapter they have instead later or do they place placeholder right before posting the next chapter?
It gets my hope up to see update notice but it’s only a placeholder so I read other updated stuff and forget about the placeholder one until days later if there’s another update.
That's what I do too when I see them, they don't bother me, and I understand why people use them to stop bad translations from transferring over.
Normally, people use placeholder at the same time as their posting the latest chapters, but that's in the cause of someone uploading a translations of the raws. Or either, they put them up later if their behind on translations.
For thus manga, since we only have someone posting the offical translations, I assume their not keeping up with all that. And Seph was trying to use placeholders out of courtesy for the person uploading now, but a lot of people were complaining about getting notifications so they stopped.
Even if the notification is annoying, this is why the placeholders are needed (^_^;)