Some comments:

• It has some unique content you will not find in both of them, if you are the kind that looks for specific releases.
• The black Friday deal is usually really worth it.
• There is no in-site forum, but instead a discord channel. Their “forum” link sends you to their discord.
• The free account is deleted “after 14 days of inactivity” but it can happen earlier than this.
• Paid activation happen manually, so, if discord receipt is a privacy nightmare for you, hope they read the e-mail.
• Performance is ages ahead of dog.
• Unlike dog, they accept requests for content (via discord) and they really go after it for you, that is really nice.

Overall, it is a mix of both you mentioned, but you will find content there that you will not find on dog and vice-versa. I believe they cover geek well enough. Note that it all depends on what content you are after,

Hi, I’ve sent you a message with more info about the site, and to invite you if you want. (Since now I joined there)

Hello Lemmy readers!

After one month gathering information about indexers I created this table and I thought It would be nice to make it a markdown and share it here.

The reason to make it was the inconsistency between multiple sources of information (review sites, reddit, hydra github, etc.) and the reality I found in every site. So this table represents the data I found inside the sites themselves between August and today (09/09/2023).

A further note is that I did not add other German sites because they needed invites that I don’t have so I couldn’t get any info from them (and they are quite local). I also didn’t add a French one because it was trying to web-mine.

As the title says, only sites with APIs able to be added to *ARRs are used for this table (excepting the ones omitted).

If you have any doubt, correction or opinion, just comment!

I hope to keep it updated, (or at least release a new one if too much time passes).

Yeah, this table right now is the most updated thing you will find.

I hope you enjoy!

Thanks! I sent you the message.

Invite received. Very good international content in the site, indeed!

Thanks for sharing the existence of a Spanish language indexer! I am having a hard time with Spanish content, specially when looking for quality, even for well known Spanish Directors. I often found newseros stuff in some of the indexers I mentioned but that was all, and I know better releases for the same stuff exists, just not inside the indexers I’ve searched (and I searched in sooo many!) or maybe not inside Usenet. Same for some Belgian content.

usenetHD.li has no API, am I right? If so, every search has to be done inside the site (forum). In the other hand, when leaving automation aside, the place could have a nice forum.

Maybe if you answer their invite tweet you could be lucky, somebody was answered in 2022. (Pidelo hablando castellano, claro). Else, they seem closed for a long long time.

If you manage to get in, let me know! Even if it has no API, I would love to have a source for Iberian and Latin-American content at Usenet, as until now this area was the weak spot of my searches. I wont tweet them because I don’t use twitter. For now, lemmy became the last “social” place I still find myself logging in.

Thanks for the heads up. Almost missed it!

Anybody knows if Dog only opens during BF and February or there is hope this year before BF?

Major change i found to be noted as of May 2023: “client-side NNTP traffic to/from the vipernews.com / uzoreto.com domains are being served by UsenetExpress” So maybe the map is wrong on that backbone’s independence.

In my humble experience, some indexers have been better for non-english content than others. Some notes I have been taking while reorganizing a library:

• SceneNZBs is good for German new content and dual audio or subtitled content, but not as good for rare german movies as I was thinking (specially if you want high quality)
• nzb.su has surprised me being the best indexer so far to have a wide scope of international content. Much better then the others. (I got into almost every single one except for Planet, Ninja, Dog and the 2 that don’t like to be known)
• DrunkenSlug has some good quality content too, it came in second during this reorganization.
• Miatrix (!) AltHub, abnzb, Finder and Noob sometimes have some old European and Asian content with good quality that I couldn’t find on DS. They shouldn’t be ignored for those searching for Sandinavian, Iberian, Italian, German, French and Eastern European content. Even Stars69 sometimes found stuff that the better known indexers didn’t. Try to have those as backup free tiers.

Everybody keeps talking that dog and ninja are great for international content (alongside with su) but I didn’t test em due to lack of invitations (Ninja is opened today, don’t miss it!).

If you are looking for more specialized (less mainstream) content, you shouldn’t regret .su

Prowlarr will use it’s own folder only if you search inside prowlarr, and the downloads are kept there.

If you search and download inside radarr/sonarr, then they will move the download to theirs own root folders. (Considering you have one for each, and another to prowlarr).

Prowlarr’s search with its own folder to downloads is a good way to have somewhere where you can manually search what you want and manipulate files outside radarr/sonarr.

Thank you so much for the invite! It worked just fine!

The idea of having the information outside reddit is great. As long as github keeps it there, it even looks nicer to read! Thank you so much for the initiative, OP. We could have it pinned or sidebarlike here somehow? Would be one more nice step forward to drop reddit for good.

Answering myself here to add the experience for GEEK:

Didn’t find anything there that wasn’t on easynews search, in fact a bit less than there, but I liked a lot the organization. The site is super clean and let us check releases for a single episode or full seasons of shows. It also shows basic information based on tvdb/imdb like director, actors, etc, when looking for a show. Its open and I think it’s worth the money for the extra search option and for the site layout.

Lucky guy. I guess I’ll start a thread looking for the invite for DS.

That’s exactly the type of experience i was looking to know from the indexers! Thanks for sharing your experience with these 2. Definitely looking towards DS here, I also like to search manually.

Hi! I’m also looking for an invite to drunkenslug. I thought that creating a new topic for this would be redundant, so I am commenting on this one instead.

If anybody can send me one I will be very grateful!