@irmaars21 Look dude, I'm tired of this. Take it however you want. You thought I wanted regular updates, when I asked if another group could release in the absence without starting more drama. You literally wrote "there are many options to [me] besides bad mouth a group [...] and posting a private conversation on discord to trash the group," but let's call that a misunderstanding. Yes vent, cool, but translators are in the spotlight for better or worse, and although both sides were doing this, pushing the Us vs. Them thing as a translator has more weight (great power/great responsibility, yadda yadda). Different words could've been used when venting that wouldn't have resulted in outrage even if they were screencapped and publicly posted.
I read @kepki's note, what of it? The guy made a snarky comment, said chapter 30 was spoiled, made an attempt at translating, and said he'd take it down when someone did a better job. Judging by comments it looks like he didn't know using LLS's raws was bad and apologized. It was a bad move with good intentions, and the chapter was later deleted. The purchased part is also a thing I'm not gonna get into because it's too big a hole. If he apologized after the retaliation, then there was no initial communication, just a reaction. Your comments show bias toward LLS, so without legit evidence that they actually left on good terms, I'm not taking your word for it. I looked for kepki, and the guy is gone. His account's deleted, so I'll try to assume they left on neutral terms.
I didn't even want to get into the joke, but you keep referencing it, so yeah I saw the comments. It sucks. We're all choosing beggars. But teasing people with fake treats like animals can cause distrust, and doing the same with a mob of people is bound to give you mixed responses. Even with the negativity, there are more than 40,000 views on this chapter alone. Let's assume every commenter for chapter 17 left a mean comment/threat, instead of the reality being like 50/50 and mainly 4 or 5 people raging from both ends. Adding this thread nets us 500. 500 out of 40,000 means less than 1.25% of the readers here were pissed enough to comment, and that's against LLS's favor. And yeah, the words were hurtful, but I'm sure they got words of support on their discord after every release and on chapter 1-16's comment pages, and I'm sure they're getting supportive comments even now. The fury only started after the april fools joke. No spikes in crazy any time before that. Maybe it's hinting at something.
As for my original question, forget it. After seeing the apology page removed, getting no word from LLS, and then hearing about the break from a follower in the comments section, it's not worth investing more time into this.
@Jellodsf @irmaars21 says they're on a break.