Omg, wow, you're such an idiot and a jerk.
I just dropped by to see if there was any discussion going on only to find this shit. I'm not trying to revive the argument but I feel obligated to speak up for my many friends at Franky House.

If you've started reading manga 3 years ago, then you probably don't know that Franky House did do it's share of HQ scanlations in early 2007. I don't remember how they compared to the Japflap of that time but I do remember they were solid quality, better than many HQ groups at that time. Around that time FH didn't deal with speedscans at all.
You say FH started the speedscan race? Bullshit. Before FH even started dealing with speedscans, each week we had at least 4 or 5 releases of WSJ series. How do I remember? Because I was a one man team at that time, doing speedscans myself. And believe me when I tell you, that what you call LQ now is light years ahead of what we've been calling MQ 6 years ago. And though many say LQ is worthless, nobody can take from me the 10000 downloads (from a single server) I got in one day for a few hours of work. It made me feel really happy and appreciated.

What FH did was try to end that stupid speedscan battle. Venicia (our leader) reached out to all those individual scanlators and invited them to create one big group that could split work to produce better results faster. And it worked. It worked only for a year but it did. We did produce more releases more steadily and our quality was improving with each release. We had some great people back then, I made friendships that still last. Of course HQ groups were releasing better scanlations but they were taking weeks to do so, while we were releasing in hours. The only group that competed with us in terms of quality at that time was Binktopia and while I admit they were often coming at the top, they were only releasing the most popular WSJ titles, while we were often releasing as many as 10 chapters per week. And no, there were no better alternatives for Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHolic and others (until binktopia picked up xxxHolic 6 months later only to release few chapters and drop it, then pick it again few months afterwards).

Now, that was a great time for FH (late 2007, early 2008) and anyone who says we were releasing crap at that moment clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. And now that's where a problem occured. In 2008 we were at our game, releasing solid MQ at crazy speed. We started getting more trainees, some of them great, some of them not so much. What we lacked was a good release flow. The only person with real power in the group was Venicia. Which means that everyone else was basically equal. We didn't have a clear quality control process, so many trainees went on to release LQ scans without consulting anyone. And while we produced many good scanlations, we started mixing some crap in. We were a big group, it was impossible for one person to have everything in their grasp at all times (even if only for the time difference reasons) but the leader didn't fancy the idea of creating a chain of power. And eventually she ended up in a hospital and left the group without a leader to manage itself. We held onto it for 2 years afterwards, I believe. Longer than I thought will be possible but it wasn't done without some sacrifices. By then most of the original staff was gone, so the group was riding on the backs of enthusiastic newbies. Some of them did a great job, some of them released crappy scans, some of them started forwarding everything to money earning sites (thefolenangel). As far as I remember, work stealing occurred twice. Once sometime early, maybe in 2007, before FH turned speedscans, I wasn't there at the moment and I don't remember what it was about. Second time much later, I believe the perpetrator was again thefolenangel.

It became too long already, so I'll just sum it up. FH is NOT a villain in the scanlating world, who released only crappy scans, stole translations and rushed speedscans battle. FH did it's share of solid scanlating work. Everyone who says different without ever scanlating anything should go and scanlate one chapter from magazine RAW. Now imagine we scanlated 1500 of them. And while there are many groups releasing much higher quality scans, a great majority of them uses volume scans that can't even be compared to magazine scans. The only group I'm aware of who did a similar share of mag scans as FH is Binktopia. They did a great job and they deserve their credit.

GGpX, I respect you as a scanlator but why are you generalizing like that? FH had many great scanlators and few shitty ones. All the stealing that occured (I remember only two cases but if you insist there were more I won't argue) can also be associated with one or two people. I know thefolenangle made a huge mess, I was the first one who tried banning her back in 2008 but I didn't have the power to do so and our leader was not listening.

Please think before you call FH putrid. We did a lot of good work and had a lot of great people. You may throw your harsh words easily but it does hurt to read all these comments after sacrificing literally weeks scanlating for no reward but kind words of people who did enjoy our scans (and believe it or not, there were many of them).