So I suppose I'm not the most neutral party saying something, but at the same time I feel about as neutral as it gets. The reason I say this is that I have my beginnings working on /u/ without association with major scanlation teams, but I am now a member of
Dynasty Scans and an active participant at
Wings of Yuri, but am willing to help out with freelance projects even still. I guess what I'm saying is: I have my feet in both waters, so am probably as neutral as they come.
So this is a short post complaining about /u/ and their infantile reactions toward Dynasty Scans. I feel scanlation groups and freelance jobs have two different places: groups for regular releases of specific genres and/or collections; freelance for one-shots that fit into neither category. I feel this system works under the idea that groups are expected to release with consistency. That is to say, if I am waiting for the release of a certain chapter of a manga, then I should not expect many one-shot side projects to be released before that, this being something that slows down the process on the release I am waiting for.
With /u/ deciding it wants to take on
Sasame Koto, it does not contribute to the total number of manga released, so is only helpful to those with the patience of a three-year-old (it's been said before: a twice-monthly release of a monthly manga is not slow). The accusations made by /u/ against Dynasty Scans are usually unfounded — I may be accused of holding bias for that statement, but let those who disagree provide credible, substantive evidence and let that be the judge — and this short-lived tiff on /u/'s side will only end poorly on how gracious Dynasty is— and let's face it, Dynasty provides a free service that many others would be happy to charge for.
I remember a time when /u/ got into a tiff with
Lililicious about the speed of release of
Strawberry Shake Sweet; however, Lililicious was doing exactly what they should do: make SSS a priority, but don't focus on only one thing just because it's popular.
tl;dr: /u/, stop bitching (even though you never do); Dynasty/Lililicious/whoever is attacked in the future, don't mind the penut gallary; freelancers, translate things that wouldn't be translated by the groups (I recall a doujin flow through /u/ once which had an editor waiting for a translation, but no-one met their call).