like do you ppl honest to god not fucking understand what's going on here?! lmfao
nobody ever asked them to work on another project and nobody gives a shit about your labels either.
the point is that especially BECAUSE it's a hobby ppl expect you to not be a dick and just leave a series alone when someone else is working on it already and clearly still active - that used to be an unspoken rule between scanlators in the past. i'm aware that mangadex - unlike batoto - doesn't enforce communication between groups anymore and nobody has a monopoly on a series like they used to, but if newcomers had at least the decency to fucking ask if both groups could work together, we wouldn't be having this issue. just dumping your crap without any prior announcement not only sucks for the first group, but may make them stop scanlating the series and then we'd have to wait who knows how long for the newest chapter(s).
this is such a dumbass take, again there's no reason to be angry, you're not paying them doofus and this is an improved quality from the previous.
there's no need to ask, the other group is quite literally free to keep working on the thing if they want to, both groups can exist at the same time and you can just shut up like a good freeloader, no one gives a fuck about what you think and what unspoken rules exist that for whatever reason readers have come up with or other scanlators, the only rules that matter are ones enforced by the site. it is the prerogative of the scanlators and not their responsibility as scanlators to talk to each other only IF the site has a rule that says so.
if there's no such rule they can literally do anything within the terms of service of mangadex