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

Don't you need to spread your accounts across multiple providers due to the partial uploads in other to get a complete archive?

Last time I looked, ever the .par technology to deal with missing segments was useless. I got the impression I'd need multiple accounts to have a chance at getting a complete download

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

What indexer(s) are you using?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it was newsbin? This was years ago admittedly...

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

Wow it really was ages ago if you mention newsbin as an indexer. Nowadays, indexer usually refers to privately run services that index nzbs for you. Most require a subscription fee, but are worth it because without them you can't really find anything manually anymore since the file names are all obfuscated. This really helps prevent copyright takedowns.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't think there were discrete indexers.

I've missed a few rounds of cat and mouse