I've been really curious, is it like a super good algorithm or are all the chapters community user entered? If it's the latter then how does Tony prevent like ten of the same chapter being entered at once? Thanks!
Bots. Here is all the info you could need. One of which has basically the same title as yours. http://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/new-novel-updates-bot-added.25652/ http://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/how-does-novel-updates-work.21477/
For 2 years this maid have always thought, that NU has overseas Labor camps. Which does the whole thing manually... XD
Your going to have to be silenced now you know the truth. No one can know about Tony's forced labour camps
There was a small rumor way back when NUF started That @Tony had many elves slaves doing his work which is why he was called The Overlord before he forced everyone to forget
You know, it probably isn't all that difficult to make a bot check if a chapter has already been uploaded to NU. He likely makes them check anyway, since there are multiple bots running in parallel. Or, depending on how he programmed the site, he might not even have to make them check before processing.
What do you mean slave elves? @Tony obviously put traces of his Divine Will on every translator in all the planes of existence to keep track of updates.