Reading these stuffs reminds of the Translator of Cult of the Sacred Runes, RDG who took some donations then disappeared all of a sudden. It's been a year already and this prequel of TDG has been dropped. somewhat out of topic, i suppose lol
Translator not updating anymore?
Hope it is within a year bro, if not then just look for the mtl version, I'm sure comrademao will have it, if it's requested.
SusshiRoll most of the novels on this site are published by qidian, some of the authors even introduce themselves on these novels, they are all probably getting the standard cut for their publications. I mean some of them make bank doing this stuff, especially people like IET, he's probably one of the happiest ones, since his chapters are usually copy pasted to milk us of our SS. Anyone who Is reading SS knows what I mean.
CKtalon
Actually its pretty easy to fix that problem as the TL can just sign a contract with the author aand get the rights to TL it just like what WW,volare and other sites do
As ive said before WN aint special
It doesnthave any special needs that are different from anyone else
Just be honest with yourself
You know that WN is company thats after money and money only
Everything else is secondary so there is hella no way WN is gonna allow other sites to get into contracts with the authors and get TL rights
melonbread yeah, me too.. I've been waiting for ages as to when the story (Jun Jiuling) will be updated 
Gothic_Temptation The rights for a vast majority of Chinese web novels are with Webnovel, not the author. So any TL that wants to legally translate it for publication needs to go through Webnovel.
CKtalon
Thank you
You just proved my point
Gothic_Temptation So basically you are trying to say skip the middle man? That can cause trouble for both the author and translator since it is violating the publisher's copyright. The author will have more to lose on this matter if they are caught doing that. (Most authors would rather go the legitimate route then waste their efforts on a few hundred or thousand dollars a month).
CKtalon
Thats a nice crazy conclusion to jump to bro
Honestly are you even reading the responses that you are giving, i mean you are getting paid by qidian afterall so its obligatory for you to say this stuff
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Gothic_Temptation
I have no idea what point of yours I proved.
I'm not paid by Qidian to say any of this. I'm paid solely for my translations. I'm just giving you logical reasons why such measures don't work. They used to work 1+ years ago, but things have changed greatly since then.
Even the Chinese government, along with lawyers, are paying attention to the development of this export of culture overseas (Patreon being one of them directly mentioned and screenshot during a speech by a lawyer during the recent Chinese Online Literature Conference), so a lot of things will now be further restrained.
I see politics... I was not expecting politics, arguing yes, politics no.
I could be wrong but isn’t this thread meant to be about how we can find out if a book is on hiatus and getting a hold of the necessary information? Particularly in regards to one novel in particular.
All i see is CKTalon attempting to patiently deal with many off topic questions, statements and overall negative criticism.
Almost like i walked into the wrong room.
CKtalon who said about the translator setting up the patreon. Have webnovel do it. If you believe webnovel is fair to the authors and translators have webnovel make the account and pay both sides. Why does webnovel deserve a share of the earning? They neither made the novel or translated it. Any translator can join any group and have their translated work put on there.
what is the percent share of the spirit stone?
SusshiRoll you're not serious right? facepalm
Kritiko not all dropped novels were dropped early, most of them were around 500+ already with around 200+ remaining chapters to translate.
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SusshiRoll And why would Webnovel use Patreon for this? Also, donations and the like is just too unreliable as an income for anyone. Patreon earnings can be so high precisely because of advanced chapters (or paywalls). Furthermore there's now gifting which goes to all three parties again, so there's no reason to add Patreon into the mix.
They are the ones hosting the work, creating the business model, strategizing with partners, hiring translators (taking the risk of losing money translating all these works), contracting with the authors, grooming the authors, managing their content to better the interests of the authors, etc. All of these are reasons for Webnovel to get a cut too.
Authors, Translators, and Webnovel share the Spirit Stones equally percentage-wise.
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SusshiRoll Why does webnovel deserve a share of the earning?
Because Qidian (WN parent's company) is the one who owned the novel. For example: LoHP, TKA, FMHM, ISSTH, Coiling Dragon, etc is OWNED by Qidian (or its parent company China Literature). I Eat Tomatoes, etc didn't have any right for Coiling Dragon for example. Qidian is the one who owned it. However, I Eat Tomatoes has a share of revenue.
Webnovel is official representation in other market. Also note, LWS, Reborn, other contracted original is OWNED by Webnovel. Not the author.
They are the owner. Why do you think they didn't deserve the money?
CKtalon
Are you really serious
Did you actually believe that you where giving me reasons why my suggestions wouldnt work
Like did you even read your answers?!?!
You literally sound like a broken record repeating the same thing over and over again and providing zero new information.
We know that qidian is the one hosting the TL but other than that seriously?!?
Are they seriously that important that they need a share. The TL could make their own website to put their TL in , its not that hard and super cheap nowadays
I have no idea what you mean by what has changed becuase nothing has changed,qidian has been like this from day
You can not put off others arguments and suggestions on such a reason as "things have changed" when you litrally have all the other sites using patreon
The proof that it work are all those other sites
You keep putting major importance on qidian which proves why i said you are getting paid by them, your whole argument is prove all you need to do is just read it
Fairy in the devils hand is not updated anymore 
I really do love that novel but there’s no update for a long time now. I really want to know what happened or will they continue the novel or not.
Gothic_Temptation And my point stems from the point that everything should be done under a legal framework such that it is sustainable. Things are changing and lawsuits will begin in time. That's all I have to say.
Your point of view is that things worked in the past, but there was a severely gray area back then. Things are turning very black and white very quickly, so your proposals won't work long term. You are thinking in terms of months, I'm thinking in terms of five years down the road and more.