Right, those are issues for sure. But as someone who reads really obscure shit (thanks JUM for everything you do!), often times its absolutely never going to have any other option, so I can compromise in that regard.
And one silver lining is, that if its bad enough both those problems will be rectified because its still a fan run community, at least for bigger series. For example, a few years back the manga for Jashin Dropkick was releasing at a snail's pace and was something like 200+ chapters behind the raws. So a guy just released the bottom barrel MTX at a rate of a new chapter every 20 minutes, and got caught up within a few weeks.
It being so bad made people pick it up to keep pumping out half decent quality works for those who were patient enough, and for those who wanted to be caught up with Japan for spoilers (what little there could be) they now were up to date and just needed a second scanlator to jump in at the further place.
But maybe the situation is worse than I think, due to my aforementioned mostly only obscure reading habits. I rarely run into any groups who are big on monetization or any of the problems you laid out (other than the retarded sniping shit). The only time I saw it was Jamini's Box with Kaguya, who were so hated that when they shut down it became a meme for everyone to scanlate the next chapter to celebrate their death, which is why chapter 200 has dozens of versions.
Right, those are issues for sure. But as someone who reads really obscure shit (thanks JUM for everything you do!), often times its absolutely never going to have any other option, so I can compromise in that regard.
And one silver lining is, that if its bad enough both those problems will be rectified because its still a fan run community, at least for bigger series. For example, a few years back the manga for Jashin Dropkick was releasing at a snail's pace and was something like 200+ chapters behind the raws. So a guy just released the bottom barrel MTX at a rate of a new chapter every 20 minutes, and got caught up within a few weeks.
It being so bad made people pick it up to keep pumping out half decent quality works for those who were patient enough, and for those who wanted to be caught up with Japan for spoilers (what little there could be) they now were up to date and just needed a second scanlator to jump in at the further place.
But maybe the situation is worse than I think, due to my aforementioned mostly only obscure reading habits. I rarely run into any groups who are big on monetization or any of the problems you laid out (other than the retarded sniping shit). The only time I saw it was Jamini's Box with Kaguya, who were so hated that when they shut down it became a meme for everyone to scanlate the next chapter to celebrate their death, which is why chapter 200 has dozens of versions.