i agree that placeholder updates can be annoying sometimes - idk why this series has three of them instead of just one. ideally the new placeholder is posted on the same day the chapter is updated… but that just doesn’t always happen.
as for the bots posting automatically, this definitely does happen. there are a lot of reasons why people like to use the placeholders. if a bot takes an official chapter from a different site and the pages are out of order, poor quality, missing, etc… there’s no way for someone to fix them without posting a new chapter entirely, which means duplicate chapters and duplicate updates anyway. for some very popular series, people will sometimes post (both good and bad) fan translations, even though the officials are being released or if people are trying to follow a specific group’s tls. it can make a mess of the order of chapters (which does affect the reading experience) or make it hard to track which chapter you last read.
ultimately it’s used for a cleaner and more consistent reading experience
The automatic uploads only really happen on popular series like this one. I personally appreciate the placeholders so we get quality translation instead of some crappy translation done on the fly. Quality over speed
Thanks for explaining! I'm a bit sceptical still that it's bots that do that, and not actual people... But it's interesting to hear :o
i used to work in scans and i would mainly post chapters on other sites (the dex one and the one that starts with b). every chapter ended up here.
it’s been a while since i’ve tried, but i had so many issues posting on this site directly that it was often simpler and faster to just let the bots take our chapters from other sites, rather than post here personally.
Jesus these placeholders are annoying, always giving me false hope we have more chapters... And what is it about mangago uploading automatically? If that was a thing that happened we'd have no abandoned series. Does anyone know what's the deal with that?