Hate the entire secrecy thing in the translation community. Qidian is awful at updates but then again many translators are very bad also. It takes very little to post a comment saying exams tonight. No chapter. or something like that. On the Qidian end why not just say we are trying to do this this and this. Not like its a secret product and it will build hype for it. I find it hard to believe they wont actually release it as its a good novel from IET.
One thing i hate about this website is no ability for translators to post with putting a chapter out. Each novel should have two indexes, one of the chapters and another with release posts, updates, and anything like that that the translator feels should be posted. It also allows for the translator to post clarifications or additional info for confusing parts of the novel.
As a computer scientist im really blown away by some of the lack of features these websites have and the common sense features that users would want. But im not a website architect so guess i dont know the full story about what goes into making a stable and non clunky platform..