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  • Some comments:

    • It has some unique content you will not find in both of them, if you are the kind that looks for specific releases.
    • The black Friday deal is usually really worth it.
    • There is no in-site forum, but instead a discord channel. Their “forum” link sends you to their discord.
    • The free account is deleted “after 14 days of inactivity” but it can happen earlier than this.
    • Paid activation happen manually, so, if discord receipt is a privacy nightmare for you, hope they read the e-mail.
    • Performance is ages ahead of dog.
    • Unlike dog, they accept requests for content (via discord) and they really go after it for you, that is really nice.

    Overall, it is a mix of both you mentioned, but you will find content there that you will not find on dog and vice-versa. I believe they cover geek well enough. Note that it all depends on what content you are after,



  • Hello Lemmy readers!

    After one month gathering information about indexers I created this table and I thought It would be nice to make it a markdown and share it here.

    The reason to make it was the inconsistency between multiple sources of information (review sites, reddit, hydra github, etc.) and the reality I found in every site. So this table represents the data I found inside the sites themselves between August and today (09/09/2023).

    A further note is that I did not add other German sites because they needed invites that I don’t have so I couldn’t get any info from them (and they are quite local). I also didn’t add a French one because it was trying to web-mine.

    As the title says, only sites with APIs able to be added to *ARRs are used for this table (excepting the ones omitted).

    If you have any doubt, correction or opinion, just comment!

    I hope to keep it updated, (or at least release a new one if too much time passes).

    Yeah, this table right now is the most updated thing you will find.

    I hope you enjoy!



  • Denuvo is the apex of a long history of bad choices.

    Maybe actually sell us the games in a way we really own it, without any sort of online activation/account/telemetry/data-gathering like when we could buy a disc and just use it, and it should all be ok.

    I feel like a dinosaur every-time I think this nowadays, but what is so problematic with the “own as in physically own” that is so hard to implement? If they want to provide a service, sell a service.

    In the past I used pirate versions of games I bought just to be able to play them offline, or because I did not agree with the terms of service. It is so much for our info, it goes beyond just knowing you are the real owner of the software copy: it comes to the point where it looks like it’s to guarantee we are not its’ owner.

    Now some DRMs even destroy gaming performance and its just faster to use 'ked versions. I hope it changes somehow.





  • Thanks for answering, I’m not trying to circumvent these sites rules, but to actually better understand em.

    I get it that they are probably defending themselves from attackers, abusers, or who knows what else. I just fear that needing people’s real IP at time of registration (and even accumulating data that links this ip to the future use of the site) can become a big problem in the future, if something bad happens to them. I mean, they can even be forced to handle their users data, some sites have done that already, using it as “bail”/negotiation when pressured (Torrent Freak has some examples).

    So I thought that since the problem could be some user causing harm to their sites, maybe having some other static ip address route (not a shared vpn address) could suffice. But I don’t know if that’s the case.

    Thanks for your suggestion, are they ok with that or would it be considered cheating?



  • Thanks for sharing the existence of a Spanish language indexer! I am having a hard time with Spanish content, specially when looking for quality, even for well known Spanish Directors. I often found newseros stuff in some of the indexers I mentioned but that was all, and I know better releases for the same stuff exists, just not inside the indexers I’ve searched (and I searched in sooo many!) or maybe not inside Usenet. Same for some Belgian content.

    usenetHD.li has no API, am I right? If so, every search has to be done inside the site (forum). In the other hand, when leaving automation aside, the place could have a nice forum.

    Maybe if you answer their invite tweet you could be lucky, somebody was answered in 2022. (Pidelo hablando castellano, claro). Else, they seem closed for a long long time.

    If you manage to get in, let me know! Even if it has no API, I would love to have a source for Iberian and Latin-American content at Usenet, as until now this area was the weak spot of my searches. I wont tweet them because I don’t use twitter. For now, lemmy became the last “social” place I still find myself logging in.






  • In my humble experience, some indexers have been better for non-english content than others. Some notes I have been taking while reorganizing a library:

    • SceneNZBs is good for German new content and dual audio or subtitled content, but not as good for rare german movies as I was thinking (specially if you want high quality)
    • nzb.su has surprised me being the best indexer so far to have a wide scope of international content. Much better then the others. (I got into almost every single one except for Planet, Ninja, Dog and the 2 that don’t like to be known)
    • DrunkenSlug has some good quality content too, it came in second during this reorganization.
    • Miatrix (!) AltHub, abnzb, Finder and Noob sometimes have some old European and Asian content with good quality that I couldn’t find on DS. They shouldn’t be ignored for those searching for Sandinavian, Iberian, Italian, German, French and Eastern European content. Even Stars69 sometimes found stuff that the better known indexers didn’t. Try to have those as backup free tiers.

    Everybody keeps talking that dog and ninja are great for international content (alongside with su) but I didn’t test em due to lack of invitations (Ninja is opened today, don’t miss it!).

    If you are looking for more specialized (less mainstream) content, you shouldn’t regret .su


  • privadesco@feddit.nltoUsenet@lemmy.worldProwlarr question
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    Prowlarr will use it’s own folder only if you search inside prowlarr, and the downloads are kept there.

    If you search and download inside radarr/sonarr, then they will move the download to theirs own root folders. (Considering you have one for each, and another to prowlarr).

    Prowlarr’s search with its own folder to downloads is a good way to have somewhere where you can manually search what you want and manipulate files outside radarr/sonarr.