https://www.newsdemon.com/usenet-newsgroup-feed-size

We last made a post about this around four months ago, when the feed size pushed past 300TB per day: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/1bpe8xs/usenet_feed_size_balloons_to_over_300tb_for_first/

This means we have seen a 60TB/day increase in roughly four months, which equates to about a 20% increase. Assuming a 20% increase every four months, we will be pushing 500TB+/- by the end of the year.

Pretty amazing to consider that only a year ago it was at 200TB/day.

We are now storing 11PB+ per month, or roughly 90X more than would have been stored in 2009. We continue to see 90%+ of these articles going unread. As the feed size has grown, a higher percentage of articles are going unread.

Pun intended, but really, a lot of work has gone into these and I’d love to help them all out

I just got into Usenet and have been loving it so far. Currently set up with Frugal Usenet as my Provider and have NinjaCentral and NZBgeek as my indexers. As I’ve gotten more comfortable with everything I came up with a few questions:

1. What exactly are the differences between indexers? Would it be worth it to get more indexers? In Radarr and Sonarr, I often see both Ninja and Geek showing the same files.
2. How exactly does an indexer work?
3. What is the difference between a provider and a backbone? Is a backbone an infrastructure for data like a server? I see that Frugal Usenet uses the Its Hosted backbone here: https://svgshare.com/s/14tF.svg
4. I got a block account with BlockNews through a yearly Frugal subscription. Would it be worth it to get another block account on another backbone/provider? If so, what’s recommended? I saw in my research that NewsGroupDirect is a good pair with Frugal, are there others I should consider?

Thanks in advance!

I recently received an email from NinjaCentral, and I’m a bit concerned about its implications. Here’s the email:

Dear [Username],

Your role has been updated to NINJABF22. Your current expiry date is 2024-11-29 00:00:00.

Best regards,
NinjaCentral Team

NINJABF22 is the discount code I used to donate $60 for a lifetime membership. When I log in, I see that my role expires in “4 Months, 1 Day.”

Does anyone know what this update signifies? I’m worried that this might mean I need to donate again; and now lifetime costs 150 EUR. Any insights or similar experiences would be greatly appreciated. I tried to access their discord but it says invite expired.

Thanks!

Edit: emailed admin@ and they were able to get me sorted.

I was on the fence about purchasing a subscription from them, but it has filled the gaps ds and geek couldn’t so I ended up sending them a btc payment today. I wasn’t sure how they confirmed it so I sent a email to the admin@ account, and was expecting to wait a few days but my account just got disabled because it was the end of the trial. I thought it wouldn’t and I would just have to login every few days. Any ideas if it will get reenabled once they get back to me or am I just sol.

EDIT: Account got re-enabled with the subcription in under 24 hours

I’ll go first.

• Futurama

I absolutely have no idea what season we’re on right now. Some sources say 9 while others indicate 11 or 12.

I know that some seasons are split into parts and that might contribute to a higher number but internet sources are even divided in how many episodes we have for season 1: 9 v 13.

What a mess 😞

^^inb4 ^^no ^^delete, ^^only ^^hoard

My current storage sitatuation is a bit tight, with sharing my library to family and friends, the amount of requests I get are unbelievely high, and I noticed that months later, a large majority of my requests have no been viewed.

Tautulli does obviously have the feature to show you whether media has been watched or not, but I wanted to go further and see what has been watched, but not played for over >6months.

I couldn’t find a method online that made sense to me, or did what I was wanting, so came up with this relatively simple way that takes a couple minutes (first time will take a few minutes as your read my instructions below, but next time will be easy) to generate of list of tv shows or movies with the requirement of:

• months since last played >6
• months since added >6 + 0 views

I did this using microsoft excel, I’m sure it’s possible to do it with other spreadsheet programs, but the feature specific I used was …

Ive been doing lots of research on various devices you can build or buy to store your content for plex. But am curious what the actual community uses and their thoughts on how it works for them?

https://preview.redd.it/elyx3f0srnfd1.png?width=894&format=png&auto=webp&s=ea88de8a4235797ef407e4fc53db4ba9b7908c05

I’ve been using Plex for about a year now and it’s been a great experience but I’ve only ever ripped Blu-Ray & DVD. I’m still nowhere near done with ripping my collection and probably won’t be caught for another year or two. I’m going to start ripping 4K Blu-rays soon and want to know what is the best playback client to make sure that Dolby Vision, HDR10(+) playback correctly. I’m currently using either Apple TVs 4K Gen 3 & 1 or Firestick 4K, 4K Max Gen 1 & 2 depending on what tv I’m on at the time. I’ve heard that there can be an issue with Plex and Dolby Vision not displaying correctly so before I even bother with ripping 4Ks I thought I would check and see what client works best for proper playback. Thanks

I created a tautulli script for downloading the next X number of episodes.

It is available here: https://gist.github.com/jasonp2009/eba06614b21a38e06e5fbb2ff91bde67

Please setup your script with the following:

Triggers: Playback Start

Conditions: Media Type is episode

Arguments: -tvid {thetvdb_id} -sn {season_num} -en {episode_num}

And also set the variable in the script

SONARR_URL: The URL you use to access your sonarr web UI

SONARR_APIKEY: Can be found in sonarr under Settings -> General -> Security -> API Key

Other variable you can edit are:

EPISODE_BUFFER (default 2): The number of next episodes to download

SET_WANTED (default True): Whether you want to mark the episode as wanted in sonarr (might be good to set this to False if you have a separate script to delete episodes after they’re watched, wanted episode may be re–downloaded)

AUTO_SEARCH (default True): Whether you want to automatically start searching for the next episodes

I’m having issues for series that do not disclose their episode names until the air date. Sonarr takes forever to refresh the series so it will automatically import. See: https://imgur.com/a/k2pn4xk

I don’t like having to manually refresh every couple of days as this should bbe automated. Why can’t I change the refresh interval to something like 1 hour?

Any solutions for this?

Is anyone getting the Olympics working in Sonarr? Posts from last week seemed to not know if it was working or would work, but now that things are underway I thought I’d let you all know that it’s working. TVDB has separated each sport into a different “season” which seems like a great way to handle such a volume of content.

https://thetvdb.com/series/summer-olympics-paris-2024#seasons

I cant for the life of me searching the wiki or Google on how to grab the office superfan episodes through sonarr. Can someone point me in the right direction.

Ok so basically I downloaded a pack of the Simpsons season 1-29, and manually imported it. However, for some reason Sonarr refused to import the first season and half of the second season, saying that the items were already imported or something. So I went to the queue, where it showed that it had all the episodes it refused to import. So then I deleted all those episodes from the queue, hoping Sonarr would import the actual episodes I had. Keep in mind that Sonarr imported everything else fine, but these like 20 or so episodes it didn’t import. Anyway, after deleting these 20 episodes from the queue, Sonarr nuked the entire seasons 1-29 I had downloaded. This software is so fucking buggy and useless, I literally don’t understand how anyone can use it. This isn’t even an isolated issue, go online and you’ll see people with similar issues, Sonarr just randomly deleting things, etc. Not even a confirmation message, just straight up deleting 180 GB worth of stuff I have to go and …