• sup@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Is it just me or is usenet a bit expensive? One would need to pay for both an indexer and a provider. Regular public trackers have majority of the content for, well, free. Is obscure stuff on Usenet easier to find?

    • thisusernameistaken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      i wouldnt waste my time with torrents now. it is one of those things hard to explain but once you make the jump for yourself you will just know and wish you did it long ago. if you are all in for under a $100 per year, i dont consider that expensive at all.

      • Grandsinge@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        Agree! I turned on the arr/nzbget/nzbhydra/Emby docker stack several years ago and it just works. I add content from my phone and it’s downloaded and organized in Emby within 10 minutes. I started with several providers and indexers at first and whittled it down to Eweka (Omicron)/Newsdemon (Usenetexpress) for providers and Geek/Drunkenslug/althub for indexers.

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          1 year ago

          how good is althub? seems like they are focused on ebooks are they good for other media

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            1 year ago

            It’s my go to for ebooks, but with tv and movies it only pulls ~5% in NZBHydra stats vs the 65% of DS.

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        1 year ago

        that’s $100 too much for me

    • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Not having to worry about seeders/leeches, ratios, using a VPN, or waiting to download is worth the $6 for everything I pay per month. I can get a 10gb movie in a matter of a few minutes. Once you experience Usenet for yourself, it’s really hard to go back to mucking about with torrents. Feels like the dark ages.

      As for obscure stuff, yeah, you can still download anything on the server at full speed, no matter how old it is. Most servers have 3-5000 days retention. Never had any trouble finding a TV show, and the oldest I’ve personally downloaded is a 10 year old show, which of course I downloaded as fast as my connection could handle. No searching for a torrent that’s not dead, as long as it’s still there, it downloads. No wait, no hassle, just click a button in Sonarr/Radarr and and 30 seconds later I’m watching it.

      • ffhein@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Sounds like usenet isn’t something for me then… I think 90% of our movie/tv library is more than 10 years old

        • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          Maybe. But the 5000 day retention most servers have is since upload. It doesn’t relate to how old the series or movie in question is. If you search for a title, you’re almost certainly going to find a few dozen or so versions of that title in various definitions and age. For example, just for kicks, I searched for episodes of the Andy Griffith show, and the oldest files I found were 3700 days old. The series is a bit older than that, of course.

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          1 year ago

          You can get plenty of older shows on Usenet it’s not like you won’t find something like Star Trek from the 60’s. Hell I recently started downloading V from 1984 so…

    • richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It’s just you. I get easynews for $45 a year on their valentine’s plan, includes unlimited nntp, unlimited web (which is really useful given the search) and a free VPN to boot. Bargain of the century