First of all, thank you to both parties for translating.
Threats in dms are absolutely not ok and y’all should cut that out stat. Are you kids or what. Harrassing a young translator over manga drama? Srsly?
That being said, it’s a bit silly to be sitting on a series and telling people to stay away when they take up translating themselves. I hate when people snipe, since it’s just unfair to the teams taking a bit more time to release better quality translations, but there really should be some kind of grace period after which it’s alright to take up a series. I’m not sure on the situation, but if the chapter has been out for a while and a single person managed to do it by themselves (and I think the job they did was really good, aside from a few typos/spelling mistakes), then isn’t an entire team taking a bit long? The chap was immediately released after this too lmao.
Idk if it’s rude or not to not contact a group, since the series hasn’t been updated for a long time and it shouldn’t be on the fans to make sure y’all are ok with it. At the end of the day, all of this isn’t really legal anyway, so it all depends on peoples goodwill.