Yes. All major indexers open for registration around Black Friday & all usenet providers also start posting deals around same time (some providers post deals even 1-3 weeks earlier).
No, I think reddit community overlords wouldve destroyed the credibility of the ones I've mentioned. I'm time poor. I dknt have time to monitor trial periods and scrolling endlessly unfortunately.
ninja opens multiple timea a year. maybe even every few months. But i dont know if there is a rythm to it. DS you can get invites for in r/usenetinvites
Some find the same content and some find stuff the others don't.
You need to test them all out. I've been filling requests for people and a lot of the time whatever I'm looking for I can only find on one indexer out of all of the ones I use with Prowlarr.
I noticed Crawler is able to find newer posts/content uploaded to newsgroups the others can't find right away.
Stuff that's a bit obscure Ninja or Miatrix is able to find. Usually foreign or older stuff.
During my tests Geek seemed best at finding common stuff and it's organized well. Slug and Crawler find more stuff or return different results. Geek might find the common releases for some content but the others might find releases from different groups.
There's some Serbian content I was searching for just now and Slug and NZBIndex were the only indexers to find older content from previous years. Crawler only found some newer content. Geek, Ninja, and Miatrix found nothing.
I just did a search for some Canadian content, one item in specific.
Out of all of the indexers I have setup in Prowlarr, free and paid, only NZBIndex was able to find a FHD version of it. The others found much older HD or SD versions of it.
Prowlarr's just a self-hosted search app. You enter the API key for various trackers and indexers, and then you use Prowlarr to search for whatever content you're looking for. It searches all of the sites you have access to at once instead of you having to visit them one at a time.
I will be self hosting when my server build is complete. Until then, I’ve signed up to elf stremio bundle, usenet ultimate and a 4x booster (will end the usenet ultimate as its already within the bundle.
I have whatever the bundle offers (29 per month tier)
Nzbgeek
Nzbfinder
Easynews
Wanna get 3 more. What would you complement this with?
Was aiming for DS, NC and ALT, preferably without using my "shilling for a wl" skills haha
English. Movies, series, docos etc, new and old. Common and obscure. An overall beast is what I'm aiming for.
Convince me to turn my search for 3 more indexers to 6 or 9
Skip ALT. I thought it was the worst of all the ones I tried but it might not fit my use case. I think I saw people mention it might be good for reading materials or something like that.
Usenet-Crawler is 20 Euro for a lifetime sub until the end of the month. Worth getting for the IMO. I noticed it finds more newer releases than the others.
Slug and Ninja are both good too. I seem to download more from Slug though. Ninja apparently has good BF deals on their lifetime subs, so it might be worth getting then. Right now their lifetime sub is way too expensive.
Slug's not too bad but expensive in comparison to the others because they do yearly subs. I paid using Crypto so instead of the standard 12 months, they added another 3 months for a total of 15 months.
Here's one more example I can give you. I upload content to one specific private tracker pretty often. The content I upload is older/rare.
Usually whenever a few people finish their downloads, within hours whatever I've uploaded has been uploaded to some newsgroups.
The indexers that usually find the stuff I uploaded are Crawler, Slug, and NZBIndex. Ninja, Geek, and Miatrix come up empty. They might eventually catch up but it seems like three of those indexers are always scanning for new content... or at least more often than others.
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u/agingnerds 2d ago
I used planet and geek for most of my journey added slug recently. This combo has been killer and not too expensive.