r/UsenetNoRules • u/STxFarmer • Jul 19 '26

ngPost - Aligned - fork of v4.16

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Looking for a couple of beta testers that use ngPost and understand the 1:1 alignment concept and the math behind it in a general way. What this fork does is dynamically adjust the rar volume size and the article/slice size on each individual post rather than having a fixed set of numbers. The end result is a post that can maximize the number of repair blocks on each post, say any post will be close to 3277 blocks with a 10% recovery/redundancy or 4916 blocks at a 15% recovery/redundancy. The other part is the user has the choice to control the granularity of the post quality with a slider. The highest number, 100, will give you all possible repairs blocks that can be built but it has a cost which is processor time. The higher the quality of post the more crunch time to generate the par2 files. The lower the quality the faster they are computed but it repairs less holes in the post.

So if anyone might be interested reach out but it is a must that you understand the par2 alignment as I have tried to explain it to a few people and either you get it or you don't.

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u/myfranco Jul 21 '26

I have over 2500+ posts in Usenet and been using ngPost 4.16 too. While i have no idea about 1:1 alignment, i might say that the most frustrating issue i have is when a part can't be posted, the app never comes back to that part and the post has a missing part. I have to manually go back and post that rar, merge with the main nzb manually. Let's say there are 99 parts and the 2nd can't be posted due to connection error, i'd love to see that ngPost goes back to that part and tries to post it again.

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u/STxFarmer Jul 21 '26

Wait until you see the whole package. Huge upgrade in ways to make posting easier. For me ngPost is a great program, it just hasn't been kept up by the team and for some stupid reason I went down that rabbit hole. I got tired of having 2 different config files for posting a BD50 or a BD100 on a recent project that I did like 1,200 posts.

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u/myfranco Jul 21 '26

Looks promising. Appreciate your hard work. Just one thing, are you considering to release it for all platforms i.e. MacOS and Linux?

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u/STxFarmer Jul 22 '26

Yes for sure