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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] 0x4E4F 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the recommendations 👍. Torrentgalaxy seems like the best option for what I need currently.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

https://torrentcore.xyz/

Total files size: 11.16 PB
Today files size: 65.42 TB
Total files count: 96,961,201
Today files count: 624,586
Today added torrents: 28,546

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's probably too complicated for a lot of people who got used to using torrents or they just don't know what they are missing out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Eh, one they get radarr/sonarr/lidarr setup- it does EVERYTHING for you.

The only downside, you do need a usenet account, which costs a few bucks. But- once you go usenet, you will never go back.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (8 children)

"once you go usenet, you will never go back." true.

Been a torrent kiddie since the old days and thought this was the end all be all of online availability of stuff i want.

Friend of me got an unlimited account on fastusenet and let me hook into it. 20€/y for a very nice german & international newsgroup forum with unlimited API access that was made with sonarr / radarr in mind.

I can and don't want to ever go back...it's blazing fast, whenever i find something, i can be certain that it's there and ready for download; Unlike torrents... just bcs u got a magnet doesn't mean there are enough seeders. And then it takes sooooooo long. On usenet i get my 350mbit/s and it can even be unpacked while being downloaded.

That way i can request a movie and watch it in ~20min even if it's a BR-REMUX that is like 80~90GB

I happily pay for that!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The only time I ever even consider using torrents, is for an obscure piece of content which I cannot find on usenet.

And even then, I do it all manually. There is too much "bad" content hosted there.

Edit- Please ignore my random downvote. nohbdyuno really... loves downvoting my comments for some odd reason.

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[–] Difficult_Bit_1339 3 points 2 years ago

Usenet is very nice for home use. I used it for years. SSL encrypted, no need to use Bittorrent over VPN. Always max download speed. The parity part was annoying on a HDD but now that I have a Gen5 NVME it is incredibly fast.

I'm back using the same setup on a Seedbox and private trackers. I share access to my media library and I have Ombi setup so my family can add their own things to Sonarr/Radarr. Since it's on a 50Gb connection it can handle bittorrent with no issue so I don't bother paying for Usenet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just started using Usenet in March. I use FrugalUsenet as my Provider and NZBGeek as my Indexer. Anything better I should consider?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

My only recommendations- look for usenet providers hosted in the netherlands. They have been the most reliable.

Also, if you use multiple providers (improves reliability), make sure to get providers from different parents.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Usenet_Providers_and_Backbones.svg (I don't know how old that image is)

Lots of the providers are just re-sellers, and will be hit with the same DMCAs equally. By- choosing providers from different "roots", you can mitigate this issue.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use TorrentGalaxy to know about the new releases and RealDebrid + Stremio. I think nothing else is actually needed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yea I've been using torrentgalaxy aswell. They seem to have a newish release group called "infinity" I think. There releases are very similar to the HEVC ones RARGB used to do. Still miss there clean layout tho.

Edit: new to me at least.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It is missing the clean layout, but being able to search specifically for TV Series Packs is really handy

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Use Jackett to search many free trackers at once. BTDig is also good, but as just a simple DHT search engine, it won't tell you the health of the torrent.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jackett or prowlarr. I’ve used both and prowlarr has been easier and more reliable for me.

You can also use qbittorrent’s in-build search.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've recently started using Rats Search, basically a p2p torrent indexer. I don't want to bother with private trackers so this is pretty much perfect.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Torrent search engines that crawl the DHT seem like they'd be the least likely to be taken down, as they don't host any torrent files or run their own trackers, they simply crawl the torrent DHT directly for magnet links.

Here are my two favorite DHT-based torrent search engines:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anything wrong if I have been using 1337x for my torrents? 🤣

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not wrong per se but rarbg was probably the best open tracker when it came to well-encoded film/TV releases. Excellent moderation.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Torrentgalaxy and 1377x is are doing fine for me

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't 1377 is garbage/malware one and 1337x the correct one?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Private trackers as I only get remuxes.

[–] 0x4E4F 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I used to care about that (when I did recodes and releases), but I haven't been active on that front in years. Do they have just rips? And what trackers?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I usually go to 1337x or TorrentLeach. It depends on the release date and type of movie though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I always go to torrentgalaxy and 1337x

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I gave up on visiting torrent sites. They're all horrible to navigate. I just use the built-in search in qBittorrent (including Jackett).

To figure out what I want to get, I use metacritic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is the pirate bay not good for this? I was surprised I didn't see them mentioned.

[–] cyanarchy 14 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I don't think TPB is strictly recommended for anything anymore, I could be out of the loop on that.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Radarr is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Private trackers and some public trackers as a fallback. I rarely browse them directly though, mostly using Sonarr and Radarr, and I use Prowlarr for configuring trackers.

[–] 0x4E4F 3 points 2 years ago

I don't actually have that much free time on my hands, but thanks for the recommendation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Good quality for the lower size, which is still important to a lot of non westerners, but they also don't look great on our 70'+ screens.

I've found P2P as viable and have switched to Usenet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

70'! I'd love a 70 foot screen.

[–] 0x4E4F 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I watch movies on a laptop now, so... not really into quality any more.

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