I’ve noticed on a lot of novels I follow that translators give no heads up when they are taking a break and if it’s sudden at least post a quick message. As of now The Nine Cauldrons is closer to finished 35 chapters and translator disappeared, LXY translator disappeared 2nd time in 3 weeks, plundering the heavens guy is gone for a few months, daoist master of Qing xuan is gone for a week, throne of magical arcana for a few months, martial arts master for almost a year, the sorcerers journey for almost a year.

Why should we begin reading novels on Webnovel if you guys can’t guarantee that a novel can be completed by you guys, it’s like setting us up for disappointment and leaving us in limbo hoping these guys come back.

There should be a something like a discord or a pinned forum page where translators mention how long they’ll be away and if they are coming back to this novel

    Do tell us why there are no updates for Lord Xue Ying, The Nine Cauldrons, others.

    At least an update like: "Hey guys & gals, won't be able to update for a week or two due to personal issues or w/e." At least then people aren't wasting time checking every day for updates. Then getting angry due to expectations not being met.

    It's like they only write novels to get money and once they have enough, they leave the novel hanging.

    So they are all on break and didn't get into an accident?

      Agree. We need a place for translator to leave message for ready.
      Or QI put notice if translator change or leaving for good

      Just writing a comment to latest chapter would be more then enough ...
      Like i'm reading Reverend Insanity now and i constantly notice translator comments

      Trafford's club' translator also disappeared without a word. It's been 10 days. Seriously just a simple sentence of I won't be uploading for a whe would've been fine.

      It gets frustrating when I check in daily and out of nowhere I have nothing to read and no timeline when I should come back and check if there’s stuff to read

      I’d be fired many times over if I randomly took days off every other week without informing anyone

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        starsari Welcome to Webnovels/Qidian.
        It is a community where the @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL and @Webnovel_Staff will read your comments, but will not make any committed replies.
        On the off chance that they do reply, it would simply be something airy and noncommittal. Something along the lines like "thank you for you support blah blah", but you will never get a dateline out of them. At least I never did 😭

          CKtalon Shouldn’t someone know since these translators are hired. Like I’m reading commanding the wind and cloud and it’s not like it’s unpopular it has 16m views or something but there’s been no update in 6 months. Idc if it’s dropped but I wanna know.

          Btw above is just an example

              starsari They are hired over the Internet. If they vanish, the only way is to go through a legal route to 'find' them. That is even more impossible and the time it takes will be even longer.

              And as mentioned before, how long is this leeway supposed to be? So the TL disappears for a week, and Webnovel actually starts to look for a TL to take over the book, and this old TL appears again. What happens next? Do you want a totally new TL who doesn't know this story at all do it or let the old TL continue, despite the sudden disappearance.

              Also, if they told you that their father or mother died and were in great grief to not actually come and send a message, do you expect Webnovel's staff to be so inhumane? And if they actually just cook up a reason, are you expecting a death certificate to be provided to prove it? What if it was true?

                  CKtalon if a translator does get fired, can Webnovel at least put up a notice that they are looking for a replacement and the novel will be on hiatus in the meantime? I think in this case, it should be very reasonable for Webnovel to know that there will be no translator for the series. This kind of notice would have been nice to see for any of the fan translations that have been ceased indefinitely.

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