Conversely, the community-driven nature of these platforms provides resilience. As long as there is a passionate reader base demanding instant access to content, there will be someone, somewhere, building a tool to provide it. The issue on the lightnovel-crawler repo was opened “about 2 years ago” (relative to the search date), showing that community interest in the site has persisted over time.

Updates happen almost concurrently with the original author's raw chapters.