r/usenet

Has anyone else found that their lifetime discount is not actually lifetime anymore? I paid €30/y since 2019 for Ultimate + VPN, last year they emailed to say that they were putting it up by €2 a month or €54/y, nearly double what it was and I figured that was after the 80% discount but today they just billed me €90 for the next year, that's triple what I was paying and when I checked what it was to subscribe now it equates to about a 17% discount. I've contacted support as I don't use it that much anymore now anyway, and if they can't my original 'lifetime' discount and refund me the difference of what they took then I'll probably cancel as I don't get that much use out of it. I know prices are skyrocketing due to AI but this happened last year and it feels like they aren't putting their prices up but trying to erode their previous discounts. I just want to know if anyone else has noticed anything.

So I've tried:

NinjaCentral

altHUB

NZBGeek

Usenet Crawler

Drunken Slug

So far from this I've concluded slug is the best by far. So I'd like to get others opions on what indexers are good for this. Also is it worth picking up Planet or Tabula Rasa since they seem to have a good amount? Im also open to any recommendations of ones I haven't listed.

TheCubeNet has too many failed downloads... Need a complimenting backup provider for "~2 hour long videos" (and collections of videos). Suggestions?

Just for clarification, I'm trying to download a royalty free video of giant underground spaceworms that poop out psychedelic drugs that make the space messiah see the future so he can rule the galaxy, but every video I try to download through TheCubeNet has low health and won't finish downloading. I'm also trying to download a royalty free video collection of a science teacher who gets cancer and gets creative with how he can afford his cancer treatment. But again, no sources are available.

Im looking for indexers that specialize in TTRPGs (Table Top RPGs) and one that specializes in Musicals (videos)

I already have a block with Bulknews. If I buy another one, I'm trying to figure out if it gets combined with my existing balance, stays separate so I can use it after the first one runs out, or if it just vanishes and does nothing. Has anyone actually done this and can tell me what happens?

https://sabnzbd.org/downloads

Critical authentication vulnerability resolved in 5.1.1 (GHSA-xrfq-jhgh-wqch)

You are only affected if an untrusted party can reach the web interface. By default, SABnzbd is only accessible from your own device and External internet access is set to No access. If either of those is still at its default, or if you use a proxy service for authentication, you are not affected.

If the SABnzbd login page is reachable from outside your network, an attacker could obtain a valid session in version 5.1.0 and earlier, even when SABnzbd is protected with a username and password. This means that all information in SABnzbd would be exposed.

If you rely on the SABnzbd username and password to keep out other users on your network or the internet, it is recommended that you change the following sensitive information after applying the update:

• SABnzbd username and password.
• SABnzbd API-key.
• Usenet server passwords.
• API-keys from indexers used within RSS-feeds.
• Authentication information for notification services.

If you cannot update right away, the only mitigations are to ensure the web interface is not reachable by untrusted parties, or to lower External internet access to Full API or below.

More information: https://sabnzbd.org/auth-bypass

Other bug fixes in 5.1.1

• Styling cache issues could occur after updating.
• RSS items were removed too eagerly from RSS-history after download.
• The RSS-feed Clear Downloaded button did not do anything.

Changelog 5.1.0

This release brings a fundamental improvement to "Retry": instead of re-downloading any files with missing data, only the articles that were actually missing are fetched again. RSS got an overhaul under the hood, the interface is refreshed, and we added quite a long list of long-requested features and bugfixes.

New features in 5.1.0

• Refreshed the interface.
• When Retrying a job, only the actually missing articles are tried again. This only works for jobs downloaded in 5.1.0 (or newer).
• RSS items are now stored in the database instead of on disk.
• New RSS Age rule to filter jobs based on their age.
• Downloaded RSS items are cleared from the RSS database after 3 days.
• Added support for filename and path pattern matching to the Cleanup List.
• Unwanted extensions will also be removed after unpacking.
• Allow job setting changes directly from Extra queue columns.
• Added support for unpacking .tar files during post-processing.
• Improved anonymization of the logs when using Show Logging.
• Added SAB_FILES environment variable to Post-processing scripts, listing all files that resulted from the job.
• New Servers will default to 16 connections instead of 8.
• Use media duration as part of Ignore Samples detection.
• Added option to (auto) sort the queue by Remaining Percentage.
• Improved support for screen readers.
• Parsing of header-encrypted RARs will use significantly fewer resources.
• Add Ayatana AppIndicator tray support on GNOME.
• Removed redundant INSTALL.txt file.
• Dropped support for Python 3.9.
• Windows and macOS: Updated Python to 3.14.6, Unrar to 7.23 and 7zip to 26.02.

Bug fixes in 5.1.0

• Prevent incorrect warnings about non-writeable directories.
• Files unrelated to job could get removed by the Cleanup List logic.
• Prevent path traversal in orphaned job APIs.
• Disk Full errors from unrar were not handled gracefully during unpacking.
• Memory leak could occur during article decoding.
• In containers (like Docker), the Article Cache could exceed the memory limit.
• Diskspace checks would be too strict when unpacking to different disk.
• Prevent deadlock when a second signal arrives during shutdown procedure.
• Verification using SFV-checks could fail, even though files were correct.
• Don't log Warning during clean shutdowns.
• Windows: Uninstall would not remove Settings or Windows Service.
• Windows: Warn for OS-limit if more than 1024 connections are configured.
• macOS: AppleDouble files could result in failures in Moving stage.
• macOS: Restarting the application resulted in Terminal window.
• macOS: Included par2cmdline-turbo will now use all available CPU-features.

Upgrade notices

• You can directly upgrade from version 3.0.0 and newer.
• Upgrading from older versions will require performing a Queue repair.

Known problems and solutions

• Read ISSUES.txt or https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/introduction/known-issues

Code Signing Policy

Windows code signing is provided by SignPath.io using a SignPath Foundation certificate.

About

SABnzbd is an open-source cross-platform binary newsreader. It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically, thanks to its web-based user interface and advanced built-in post-processing options that automatically verify, repair, extract and clean up posts downloaded from Usenet.

(c) Copyright 2007-2026 by The SABnzbd-Team (sabnzbd.org)

Hi all,

Fairly new to Usenet and the Arr stack so my apologies if I am missing something obvious but I am coming with a very open mind to solve the problems I am having and am more than happy to be called an idiot.

I have a fairly simple setup

Radarr/Sonarr → Prowlarr → NZBGeek → SABnzbd → Newshosting

with - Custom profiles set up in both Sonarr and Radarr with a heavy preference towards remux quality level movies and 4k series downloads to take advantage of a 4k TV, surround sound system with shield and plex.

The challenge - far more failed downloads than I would like resulting in either a movie not being downloaded or series with several episodes missing. SAB shows 1kb/s download speeds and large missing article counts before it fails and moves on to the next. With those that fial outright in the end, I end up with sonarr/ radarr going all the way through it's search, going down my custom format scores until failing completely.

The solution is what I need help with. I've just about gotten my head around usenet providers vs indexers and have also done enough research to be fairly confident in saying that I need to increase my stack to include likely another usenet provider (ideally on a different backbone) and probably at least another indexer.

My question, do I need another unlimited usenet provider or am I better off going with a block approach? If so, what should I be looking at. And, assuming I need another indexer, again what should I be looking at to solve my issue.

I keep seeing references to Eweka as a usenet provider which is uses a different backbone but again, do I need an unlimited backbone or am I better off using simething like usenet. farm and paying for blocks?

Althub seems to be referenced as a good secondary indexer. I appreciate all help. thank you

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

"Lifetime" Accounts converted to Lite Tier

Now converted to Limited Account.

So there is a FB post for TreasureNZB and they are charging ~50$ for a lifetime membership. Looked around online, haven't seen a thing on them.
Does anyone have any experience with this one?

Is it possible to stack up on the Eweka summer deal? At the beginning of the year, I went and paid full price for a one year Eweka subscription, and then in the summer, they started their summer sales. I was wondering if it's possible to still use their summer sales (since it's still up on here) to stack up for the future. This is my first time getting Eweka, so I don't know if they allow stacking up. Has anyone done that before?

I purchased an Althub lifetime sub last year and only just poked my head into all this Usenet business around now. They say on their page to keep your API use limited, as low as one request every ten minutes. Tried to replicate this in Prowlarr with 6 requests an hour, but either way you slice it, this cripples automation and especially for content through Sonarr. If I don't babysit the program and manually scan for single items each time Prowlarr releases the limit, then the majority of my Usenet capability goes wasted. And if I'm going that far, it's hardly worth having the automation in the first place.

At this point, I'm tempted to put my limit to 140 requests per day (Still within the 1 req per 10 mins, just expanded over the full 24 hours) and run it that way. But I'm afraid of getting smacked down for abuse if I do so. Anyone have experience with this themselves? Any idea how much leniency they have with this rule? I know I could also just add more indexers so things are more spread, but it still feels like this lifetime sub would be horribly underutilized with the original limit set.

I use Decryptarr, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and Plex. I'm looking to move on from debrid services and not sure if Usenet is a step up or a step down. Also I'm not sure of which service to start with. Any recommendations would be Greatly appreciated.

I've been using it for years and it's worked great, but the last couple of weeks I've been getting enough failures that some of my stuff just can't be downloaded...

Hi - auch ich war ewig bei HoU und habe vor Kurzem auf Treasure-Maps gewechselt..gefällt mir bisher ganz gut..hab nur noch nicht upgegradet und somit limitierte Downloads..

Deshalb: hat hier jemand den Vergleich?
'Reicht' Treasure-Maps?

Oder sollte man doch versuchen zu SoU zu kommen?
(auch wenn ich kA hab wie..)
✌🏼

Very odd this, both have the same indexers and no filters, but Prowlarr is giving me many more results (which are valid). Any clues why this should be the case? NB I have been using both for many years

I have not used my easynews account for some weeks. Logged in now and it seems like a lot of the «colorful» groups has been removed from the web interface?

Has anyone else experienced the same?

Which indexers are still missing 2FA support? Let's put together a list and encourage them to add it as soon as possible, especially with everything getting pwnd left and right these days. I'd hate to lose a lifetime account.

List of indexers lacking 2FA support:

• Althub
• Drunken Slug
• Ninja Central
• Usenet Crawler

I noticed some recently added it and even coupled it with passkey support (👍), which made me go through my list of indexers again. I'll try and add any missing indexers to the list above.

Edit: Adding a list for providers lacking 2FA (...some of these seem to be storing passwords in clear-text also, when you do a password reset they'll send you your password in clear-text, instead of a reset URL 😲).

• Bulknews
• Eweka
• Easynews
• Newsdemon
• NewsgroupDirect
• Newshosting

 

I have:

1- providers: eweka and newsdemon. should I add more providers and from which backbone? https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers/

2- indexers: nzbgeek, dognzb, drunkenslung. there are alot of options here: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/indexers/, but i want people recommendations

3- software: sabnzbd, sonarr, radarr, powarr, seerr, nzb360 and bazarr. any more software to improve my setup flow? other arr software?

I get 90 to 95% of what I search, my use case mainly watchable media