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There have been no updates for a few weeks now. Is there any way to ask the translator if he's dropped it or just going through something?

This novel's been dropped before with no communication from a previous translator so I'm worried it's happening again.

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Give us an answer mods

Yes, I'm afraid.

Yes, I'm afraid.

dbenz Its not the same thing, but you can check out this post (https://forum.webnovel.com/d/25983-a-list-of-dropped-translated-qidian-novels/247) to show a non-exhaustive list of dropped novels.

Unfortunately it is user-made and so not an official list, nor does it provide any rationale for why anything was dropped/hiatus.

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Sythcake I am sure that is mostly the intent. However, businesses are not almighty gods of wisdom and sometimes make costly mistakes (e.g. Blockbusters and Netflix, Xerox and Graphical-User-Interface, etc.). One of the benefits of Webnovel not releasing this information and being uncommunicative is that they provide a blank slate for people to project or tell other people the "good" reason why these novels were dropped.

In reality, these things are difficult and books that might seem initially unpopular over a period of one week, might actually be popular if they had more chapters or with changing literary tastes. Its a complex issue and, in all fairness to webnovel, something that traditional book publishers also get wrong. I am sure if you search long enough you will find any number of bestsellers that were turned down by publishers with good reputations. I do not think it is discriminatory towards webnovel to believe that they sometimes make mistakes too. Not even including the fact that translated novels involve more than just the author and webnovel, but also the translators. For example, a translation might also be dropped because the existing translator decides they can make more money elsewhere or they lack translators or there was a payment dispute between translator and webnovel, etc..

As such, I believe that if you strongly believe a dropped book is really good enough, it makes sense to try and communicate this to the decision-makers however you reasonably can.

mng One of the benefits of Webnovel not releasing this information and being uncommunicative is that they provide a blank slate for people to project or tell other people the "good" reason why these novels were dropped.

This is literally their official stance.. At least according to @CKtalon

mng it makes sense to try and communicate this to the decision-makers however you reasonably can.

You’re not the first person to point this out and won’t be the last... but it’s about time that everyone came to terms with the fact that webnovel simply doesn’t give two shits bout anything but making a quick buck in the short term.

Ya way of the devil is defenetly dead yet again. Or maybe TL is trying to stockpile to make ridiculously long premium wall. With insane price.

I only read 3 novels and now I'm down to 2. 2 years ago, I used to read over 70!

Sythcake I hear you. And apologies for the late reply. As you can probably tell, I am an infrequent visitor to these forums.