Hey everyone,

The small but passionate team behind the Usenet Providers Map is back with a major update!

After countless hours of research, design tweaks, and community feedback, Version 2025-02-23 of the Usenet Providers & Backbones Tree is live! 🚀

Check it out here:
🔗 Interactive Map: https://usenet.rexum.space/tree
🔗 Direct SVG: Click here

What’s New?

• Ownership clarity: Added real company names to untangle the corporate web behind providers.
• Bye-bye Frugal Bonus: Removed from the map (it’s no longer on the Its Hosted backbone, and its status is murky).
• Streamlined info: The dedicated table page now hosts all extra details (linked at the top of the map too).

Why This Matters

Use this map to:
✅ Visualize provider/reseller connections and ownership.
✅ Identify backbones you *might* be missing (though one backbone is usually enough—they peer with each other!).
✅ Compare retention times (some keep data longer than others).

A Heartfelt Thanks… and a Small Frustration

First, …

The latest update to NZBGet introduces three major improvements designed to enhance performance, usability, and automation.

• Built-in Internet Speed Test – A new network speed test tool allows users to measure their connection directly within NZBGet, eliminating the need for external tests.
• Native Deobfuscation Support – NZBGet now includes long-awaited deobfuscation, automatically renaming obfuscated files after unpacking. This removes the need for extra deobfuscation extensions.
• Bug Fixes Based on Community Feedback – This update resolves several long-standing issues reported by the community, improving stability and usability.

These changes are part of an ongoing effort to make NZBGet faster, more reliable, and easier to use.

Key Enhancements in v24.6

Improved Deobfuscation

• Enhanced parsing of the subject field in NZB files for better validation of downloaded article filenames.
• Added filename obfuscation detection after unpacking, renaming excessively obfuscated filenames to …

Are there any indexers other than Geek that publish the available subtitles in the API?

This is super useful information to include so if other indexers could include it also please do :)

Also if anyone has access to Geek support and can mention the space at end of “subs ” to get it fixed it is difficult to use as a filter as it is :)

Thanks

Just a heads up to anyone in Australia getting poor speeds or not meeting their expectations.

I’ve always used Newhosting and once I switched to fibre 1 gigabit down I could only ever receive around 65MB/s down at absolute best. My system was more than capable, with bandwidth showing 110MB/s and the rest of the hardware showing 400MB/s+

I read countless discussions of people with similar experiences in Australia, if anything I was getting a better experience. And when I started my own discussion the verdict was I won’t fully saturate a gigabit connection in Australia.

I tried many different providers but everyone else was actually worse. I got absolutely flamed here and on other discussion boards for it being my config and hardware

Yesterday I looked into it again and thought I’d try Frugal. Instantly, I was pulling 110MB/s down with their Sydney server (I’m in QLD)

So just an FYI if you’ve been trying to saturate your gigabit connection

I just got into US and I said I should get Frugal since it’s US-based, figuring it’d mean faster speeds for me here. I tried Eweka, and even though its servers are in Europe, I’m getting better speeds, maxing out my connection, while Frugal lags behind. My ISP, setup, NZB client, and downloads are all the same between tests. I thought distance would matter more for Usenet, but maybe it’s network issues on Frugal’s end? Curious if other US users have seen Eweka outperform like this.

This is the feature I use the most on Plex to watch anime with my friend, I’m pretty sure if they implement it back next it’s gonna be a paid option.. sucks.

About an hour ago, my plex account was accessed by some jabroni from Russia. They changed my password and my email address as soon as they got in. Thank goodness that plex sends out an email with the email address change with an option to revert to the prior email address within 7 days. I’ve gotten my account back, changed the password and enable 2FA for future logins.

I just wanted to share and recommend 2FA for anyone else that runs a plex server. Keep your account safe!

Absolute insanity that they’re removing this feature. “So what, I never use watch together” you might say. That’s not the point, the point is for those who love and rely on this feature to watch shows and movies with friends and families across the world, this will be a devastating loss of entertainment and connection.

Are there any functional alternatives to this from other competitors or clients, or do we have to go back to the dark ages of “1 2 3 play” again in the hopes shows and movies are synced again.

While this isnt my main client obviously, every once in a while i still use my Star Wars Edition X360, and when i do i see if the plex app still functions. So weird seeing it, in some ways i prefer the simplicity of the old ui

🔹 I can ask my AI assistant (Home Assistant’s voice integration) to shuffle a random episode of any show.
🔹 It can automatically turn on my Apple TV, set the right input and volume for a particular show, and start playing.
🔹 If I pause a movie, the lights slowly brighten. If I resume, they dim again.
🔹 Movie night? Home Assistant detects when a film is playing and turns on Hue Sync for an immersive experience.

It’s one of those things I didn’t know I needed… but now I can’t go back.

If you’re into automation, check it out and let me know what you think!
📺 Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfb-PNY5uQ8

Also curious, anyone else using Home Assistant with Plex? What are you using it for?

It’s fairly crude at the moment as it has to parse the stdout from the command line tool, but I’ve developed “iplayarr”which runs in the background and presents itself as a newznab indexer and sabnzbd download client. I’ve tested with a few shows and this very early alpha version works with very few hiccups!

https://github.com/Nikorag/iplayarr

If anyone has any tips or suggestions they’re absolutely welcome.

This keeps happening. My understanding is that it should “fail” these downloads and they should be deleted if I have selected:

Fail Downloads: Executables, Potentially Dangerous

Am I getting confused?

https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/pull/7397

Edit: for the sake of clarity. I am not asking my downloader to block downloading lnk files. I want sonarr to fail torrents which have lnk files as per the github above

Just want to make sure I’m not wasting time trying to fix shit on my end if the program itself is busted at the moment. Is flaresolverr working for everyone else right now?

I’m not sure if the issue is related but I recently migrated from NordVPN (🤢) to AirVPN and everything was setup and working fine prior to this. When Flaresolverr starts up, it does its little “test” successfully, but within Jackett, every tracker is returning a “The cookies provided by FlareSolverr are not valid” error. I’m no expert but I don’t think it’s the VPN causing havoc, as I’ve tested both split tunneling jackett+flaresolverr outside of the VPN, as well as testing it with the VPN turned off altogether. Same results.

I’m at a loss here, and unfortunately there’s not even any alternatives for Flaresolverr as I do not run docker. Anyone got any ideas?

edit: oh and I’ve also navigated to the trackers in a web browser and searched …

Hi Everyone,

I have a movie database around 20TB and i have recently upgraded my media system to include aTV and soundbar that support Dolby Vision and Atmos.

I have used the trash guides notifarr to update all of my profiles and custom formats in radarr, however im not sure what to do now to get radarr to upgrade all of my movies to the new verrsion with DV and DA support.

Ive read and apparently it does it automatically but i dont see a setting anywhere that explains it.

my questions i how can i set radarr to upgrade all of my movies to the new formats if available and when it does so get it to delete the old version so that i dont double my storage use?

Many thanks

a side note i would also like to eventually download a 1080p copy of everything so that my family can watch from their phones, how would i go about getting this setup too?

Thank you for your help

I recently migrated to the docker container, so I’m finally on v4. Some new specials for The White Lotus popped up for me today. However, “Specials” don’t appear in the series view, so I can’t unmonitor the “Specials” season. Any clue what I can do? I could obviously unmonitor the episodes, but I don’t want to have to do this every week.

https://imgur.com/Unr2hJM.jpg

https://imgur.com/VECfbqL.jpg