@PrinceTenjou no offense, and this is just my two cents, but I wouldn't try to act as if I had the moral highground in your place. As soon as the official translation is out, we're all pirates if we continue to read the scans, regardless of whether it's on MD or on the TL's website.
"Hosting it for free on their website out of respect for the artist" is probably one of the most incoherent sentence I've ever read on this website. You realize that the artist intends for you to buy this story? And that hosting it for free
anywhere is anything but something done "out of respect for the artist"?
And before you answer "but you're the same", yes, I'm fully aware that this is piracy. Hence why I'm not trying to act as if I had the moral highground by calling other people "selfish crybabies", I'm fully aware that what we're doing is wrong. Reading it for free when the artist is selling it online is wrong and is piracy, so disguising the decision to take it off of MangaDex as a decision to "respect the author" is a bit hypocrite, and calling people who refuse to join their website crybabies is kinda pathetic in my own honest opinion.
If you want my opinion on the matter, it feels more as if the TL group is just trying to avoid getting unnecessary attention from the author and avoid getting a lawsuit/having to stop the translation. Which is fine, and I respect their decision, I'm certainly not going to call them out on that. But please don't go acting as if you were some kind of righteous hero way better than us "crybabies", just because you're "respecting the author" by deciding to read it in their discord instead of wanting to read it on here... when in reality you're pirating their work and reading it online for free like the rest of us.
I'm still grateful for their job until now, but I'm gonna be honest I'm hoping someone else will pickup / snipe this series and post it in here.