Thanks again! For bringing this one back to the land of the living!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Yea, took a while to import all the comments, but now I can finally go back to translating after waiting for it to finish :3

Oh, it seems you did integrate disqus. And you were even able to keep the old comments. I’m curious how people will react. Seems to be working fine.

Well, your example is slightly bad in this situation because that particular translator translates Death Mage regularly once a week, everything extra is because people paid him/her 100$ per chapter.
Quite honestly, if people paid me 100$ per chapter, I wouldn’t mind increasing the release speed either as long as it is within my capacities but that’s not a reality for most Japanese translators, if not all but Yoshi.

As for Disqus, I will look into it and try to put it on the blog. I remember I cheched it a while back already but somehow I forgot about it. As person who has to do everything myself, I kind of tend to let things with lower priority slip. xD

I understand where you are coming from, but surely you must also understand that the number of people who follow a novel is quite related to how fast it is translated. Even more so than the quality of the translation. It’s sad, but that’s just how human minds work in general. The more frequent they get something the more interested they will be in it. If it’s quality translation to boot that’s even better! (granted the novel is interesting to begin with ofc). Not everyone is like this, but for majority it works like that.

Check out translator Yoshi. He is the translator of The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time. The chapters of that novel are really long. About 3 times as long as the chapters of your avarage novel. But he could keep a translation rate of 2 days/per chapter even with such long chapters, before he took a month long break for vacation that is. I guess he did experience being burned out as you said and it’s understandable that he took a month long vacation for the new year. He has a big reader community with hundreds of people commenting in each chapter and people who are willing to sponsor $100 for each chapter. Just check any chapter and you can see how crowded the chat is. He even had to close his paypal weeks before he went to vacation so people would stop piling up donations for sponsor chapters while he is gone haha! He was barely able to finish all the owed sponsor chapters right before he gone to his vacation. With so many fans Yoshi must be doing something right atleast don’t you think so?

Anyways i have rambled on for too long. I’m just trying to give you some ideas. Just wanted to show you how another translator works and maybe you can get some inspiration from Yoshi’s example.

Also i think you might want to try implementing disqus for chat like in Yoshi’s example. It’s generally more useful and easier for people to follow up comments and it allows people to be more interractive by letting them upvote the comments they like, thus pushing it up the list. So you can get alot more people commenting on your novels and generally have a more active community using disqus. You can also try seting up a general chat room at the main page with disqus and try to create an always active community that uses your site to talk about novels and other stuff. Just some ideas that might work well.

Anyways thanks for replying back to me. Most people don’t like criticism and can outright block others without even a word if they don’t like what’s being said. The world has become such a place sadly. I had my run ins with some translators like that before haha!

You are free to have an opinion, but let me give you just one comment:

“When i started reading this novel, Birdy had a translation rate of a chapter every 1.3 days. Yeah it was really fast eh?”

And that’s why most translators quit after a bit. They start fast, then they get slower and slower and eventually they stop completely, they literally burn out.
My solution is to spread my love over a few novels so I don’t get bored of translating and/or burn out on them. If it’s a decent novel I up their release speed, if it’s a boring novel I drop them. If I see people don’t read a series I drop it too as I have no particular interest in translating for a few dozens people except for novels I really like (like Kakei Senki wo Kakageyo). That’s how I handle it. *shrug*