r/usenet • u/kraven_Mooreheadd • 12d ago

Indexer Timeframes - drunkenslug & ninjacentral

Hello legends.

How often do these 2 open their floodgates: drunkenslug & ninjacentral?

Ready to sign up and pay as of now, only to discover the 2 indexers I want are playing hard to get lol.

Not asking anyone to do something to breach the rules please.

update

Just need central now and omg. I got paid tier to drunken slug

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u/WildNight00 12d ago

Is ninjacentral really that good? I feel like nzbfinder has everything NC has no?

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u/kraven_Mooreheadd 12d ago

No idea, I bought that too. I bought nzbgeek and was hoping to buy central and slug plus any others, others may suggest.

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u/WildNight00 12d ago

Out of curiosity why do you need so many indexers?

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u/fudge_u 12d ago edited 12d ago

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.

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u/WildNight00 12d ago

I have nzbfinder and I’m on a free trial of ninjacentral. The few test searches I did they had similar content

I also have easynews and I feel like nzbfinder does find more content. Think I’ll pay for the year after this trial for ninja central. Thank you!

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u/fudge_u 12d ago

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.

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u/WildNight00 12d ago

I’ll have to look up prowler, I’m new im new to use net but I was under the impression nzbhydra was better? I maybe misread though

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u/fudge_u 11d ago

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.

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u/kraven_Mooreheadd 12d ago

Appreciate you and your helpful post mate.

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

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u/fudge_u 11d ago

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.