What exactly is the appeal of Usenet when almost everything is available through torrents for free? I also never really understood trusting giving out your payment information.
Do people use Usenet as forums besides the ability to share files?
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usenet is almost always faster, there's never an issue with torrent lacking seeds and it's theoretically safer as you do not upload any content when downloading which if you do download a lot using torrents will put you in a certain legal grey area about distributing files.
but aside from all of that the integration with the arr stack and the automation makes it just so much more god damned convenient.
Provider: Eweka Indexer: Geek
Same here. Would recommend both!
lol imagine paying for pirating
lol and now imagine you can use usenet for free
eh, i don't want to juggle free trials
who speaking about free trials? clearly you dont pirate enough to get things for free (speaking about usenet)
Broken packages everywhere
lol imagine being so poor you can't afford 10 dollars a month
10 dollars a month is a big sum of money in my country.
dollar has gone to shit in the US too. saving $5/month doesnt do crap for my finances when cheapest houses around here are still above $2.5M
yeah, I've been seeing how fucked up the minimum wage and salaries in general are over there. like, everything is affected by inflation BUT the salaries/wages? fucking joke.
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?
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.
that's $100 too much for me
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.
how good is althub? seems like they are focused on ebooks are they good for other media
It's my go to for ebooks, but with tv and movies it only pulls ~5% in NZBHydra stats vs the 65% of DS.
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.
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
Frugal Usenet, I did the one that gets you the block storage then ended up adding more block storage after that ran up
I use Eweka/usenetprime and use Nzbplanet/NzbGeek these days.
Do you mean provider (the guys you pay so you can access usenet at all) or indexer (the guys who organize the files so you can find anything)
Both
I think my provider is newsgroup direct and my indexer is nzbgeek
When I first tried Usenet, I wanted something cheap so I could see if it was right for me. I haven't bothered to change since, so I use Frugal Usenet and Geek to index. Both work quite well for everything I've tried except ebooks.
#bookz on undernet is great
frugal usenet here as well but i have collected block accounts over the years that really never get used so they just sit there.
Block accounts?
Block accounts are a preset amount of gigabytes that you buy and then you can use them up as you see fit without a rebill every month or year and then buy more when you want.
I've been looking at eweka since mullvad removed port forwarding but i now have 1000/400 internet and like seeding so vpn recommendations are welcome (and indexers)
No VPN necessary. Eweka and Geek is a great combination.
Fastusenet.org
Usenight
Use night - it's by far the cheapest I've found (20 euro for a year). Gives you fast speeds at night and throttles during the day. Not an issue for me.
I don't know what the fuck use net is i just want to steal from people like new business insider owner or whatnot the channel name is
Usenetbucket
I have a Block News account that I add to every now and then. I haven't used it in a couple years since the indexer I was using shut down. Haven't really looked for a new indexer though.
GigaNews for my procvider, NZBGeek and PlanetNZB for indexers.