Ooo STFU....
Nobody can judge, there is only one judge...
SF may have released with bad quality and not perfect TL, but the effort they put into their scans and the heart of the readers they made enjoy speaks for itself. So RIP SF, RIP FH....
You will see one day what will happen when MS monopolizes the scanlation world.
Speaking of MS, let's not talk about their God complex.

true but in my eyes watermarks = crap quality

not sure why they're quitting, but from what i can read from their site, and feel free to correct me if i'm wrong, it sounds more like it's because they can't seem to catch up....

scanlation is a service that is up for offer. anything that is offered will always be judged, even something as pure as charity. a dollar makes you a scrooge and 100 makes you a savior. sure, you'll get kind souls who're happy with a dollar. unfortunately, not everyone are that easily satisfied.

it's been chanted for years now: speed and quality are what people look for in scanlators, like it or not. and it takes "effort" and "heart" to deliver those, something SF actually lacked. why else would they quit? if it was because of IRL issues or lack of staff, or a disagreement among them, sure, can't blame them. sh** like that happens. but because of speed?

take the "group who's website does not exist" for example; they lack speed, but their quality definitely shows heart and effort, and even more so with their refusal to quit, for nearly 7 goddamn years! and SF? what? can't catch up? they still have the choice to make it up with quality, something MS is weak with especially in the translation dept. and yet, they chose not to. what? SJ titles are not worth it and it's too competitive? there are a 1001 other unscanlated series out there i'm sure myself and others would like to discover and read. just ignore that need to get thousands of fans. a lot of fine groups are still doing ok with a few dozen to a few hundred fans.

tl;dr - as i see it in terms of scanlation; giving up, and refusal to sacrifice speed and work hard for quality instead is no proof of heart and effort.

I agree too...work on something else dammit, instead of going emo
Lots of great manga to choose from, if you don't know any just get hold of me

...and I'm the judge!

Anyway MS ruling the scanlation world, I lulz at the great joke you made there XD

I may annoy 75% of the speedscanners...but naruto, bleach and bakuman isn't the whole manga world (it's so far from it)...I refuse to call anyone who do those as the rulers of scanlations world, lol.

Please that's like telling me that watermarks are great -_-;;;; za reason why I normally jump over MS stuff is the watermarks and no dls.

PS: No one got a bigger god complex than me, hence my first line

They close instead of translating something that 500 other groups aren't already doing.

¯\（￣～￣;） /¯

I like that smiley, what key combination is that upper bar on your keyboard?
there is nothing like that on mine.

I read about this on their page, I liked their translations. Sad but it is what it is.

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I don't even know how you can ' monopolize the scanlation world'. And as if monopoly's are bad by definition.

MS delivers quality (in terms of redrawing and editing, perhaps not always in TL) and speed. It's not like you have to pay for their services. They too are a bunch of people who do things for free. There are hardly any downsides by reading their work. I don't quite get what your beef is with MS.

SleepyFans had better translation than IEatManga for Bakuman. For IEatManga, you can obviously see the direct translations from Japanese. Stop dissing them that much.