Exactly, hosting doesn't cost anymore. As i mentioned to the other dude, that the cost is in the TLers and TSers
we pay $5 per chapter (a 30 page chapter i guess and $10 for something like kenja)
and $0.15 for CL/RD per page. It's not much, but atleast its for being "rewarded". Hence ad revenue...
its been 3 months... (its prolly like 3 chapters worth of time ngl, so as usually some day when i am free i will batch upload, also uploading on MD is sure a pain because you can't do batch uploads like bato.to and instead go one by one chapter, i made a stupid script to interact with the api...
you not reading on the site == not being able to afford more chapters bro. It's as simple as that.
We have detailed the economics of producing the chapters on our patreon, but yeh...Considering how things were i guess 3-4yrs ago, its not "volunteer" basis. Volunteers still do exist, but they...
well its not to pay our bandwidth, rather its to pay the TLers lol. Yeh, things changed over the past 3-4 yrs due to how the manhwa scanlation became so commericialized (manhwa TLers get paid $25 per chap) that kinda influenced the manga thing as well. Sure we'll upload the chapters at one point...
The way that rule works is if i upload chapter 50 and not upload the chapters before it, essentially forcing readers to read on the site to fill the gaps.
this didn't drop at once, we have had a hit or a miss with this series for a really long time with staff inconsistency. This chapter was first uploaded on February 5 2022, been more than 2 yrs. We just re-picked it after being pseudo dropped.
Aaargh, I was trying so hard to fix this, but something random is happening, stupid md. Can't they be like the old thing where we can reupload the entire chapter in zip and it'd unzip in server and rewrite the chapter.
the raws are at 66 right now, the previous group just stopped doing them, we even offered a collab but they rejected and told "chapter is on the way", that was a month ago, and i gave up and got a tl and ts/rd to work on it
not really, i just made a python script to upload, but the way directory indexing works in windows is by
1
10
11
12....19
2
21
22....29
so on... and i had to sleep so I stopped uploading in the middle. I am uploading the rest now.