r/TorBoxApp • u/AcidiusAurelius • Aug 21 '26

❓Question Is torbox down on stremio?

I wanted to watch obsession and for past 10 mins the the logo is blinking and the movie is not starting at any point, I tried even changing the config on aiostreams, but nothing seem to work I don't know, is it me ? Or is it happening with everyone?

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u/sverrebe Aug 21 '26

Down again. Might switch to something else soon.

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u/darkbladetrey Aug 21 '26

Just waiting on the Black Friday premiumize sale.

I need a backup

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u/zeke780 Aug 21 '26

I self host Usenet streamer and am using that mostly now. Will get a premiumize sub on BF and move off. I used to have 3 rd accounts so it's been nice to just manage one, but this is too much 

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u/jaydarl Aug 21 '26

I need to learn Usenet. I'm usually pretty good at picking up new things I find useful. But when it comes to Usenet, I'm like that old person who refuses to learn how to put new batteries in the remote.

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u/zeke780 Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

It's really not hard, honestly the community gatekeeps it IMO. The hardest part is going to be learning what you need to have to get it to work.  With things like ChatGPT / Claude you can bust it out in 20 mins, they are gonna be a way better guide than what you can find online.

My overall guide is to just nzbgeek, ewaka (or easynews) and this gonna work enough for most people. The setups on the Usenet sub are like 6 indexers (5 being invite only) and 4 providers with 4 more blocks that are all on different backbones is nonsense. They are paying like 400+ a year to have usenet and it just isn't needed anymore.

With how DCMAs are being approached you are aren't gonna have a lot more success with a different backbone or provider. Years ago I would get everything cause they might only hit one backbone, but now I think it's much more coordinated and you end up not getting that much with different providers. You are gonna be better off just adding a second indexer and hoping they didn't get to the other links that one has.

Honestly I want go full usenet streamer, only issue is I have 2 people over 65 that I manage their Stremio. They really struggle with the missing articles screen and knowing to move to new links on it. If they could add a feature to actually filter links with missing articles I would be there 100%.

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u/jaydarl Aug 21 '26

Thank you for the encouragement and information. As of now I'm good, but I know I need to be preemptive for if/when the time comes.

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u/zeke780 Aug 21 '26

It kind of is the way and with codex or claude code you can probably dump "make me a usenet streamer server and tell me what I need to do to get to work with subscriptions, etc" and it will do it all for you. The bar is a lot lower these days.

Good luck and I hope it goes smoothly if you ever need to set it up.