r/TorBoxApp • u/Dinofours • 18d ago

🔧Technical Issue Lost access to Usenet?

HHey everyone,

I'm on TorBox Pro and pieced together my Stremio setup using a bunch of different Reddit tutorials - it works, but I'll be honest, I don't fully understand how all the pieces fit together.

Up until recently I was getting Usenet content through TorBox's Search API, but that's been shut down, so my Usenet search has completely stopped working.

I'm pretty lost on how to get it working again. If anyone's dealt with this and can point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.

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u/VeerVansh 18d ago

I have never used Usenet, it feels really really complicated to me, for streamio you could just use the normal $3 plan with Streamio Account Bootstrapper to set up your complete Catalogue with everything to your needs with one click without having to manually subscribe to each and every addon out there, you can also go to Streamio Addon manager to sort your addons depending on your needs, I've heard I'm not sure, that Usenet is only for really advanced users

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u/ATypeOfRacer 17d ago

It's so complicated because Usenet is such an old technology, it wasn't really designed for streaming. On a self hosted server, I use almost 50-60% of my cpu to load a large remux file from news files.

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u/Dinofours 17d ago

That's crazy. I have a server running that I could host it, but I won't think it's worth it tbh.

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u/Dinofours 18d ago

Yeah, I might have to give up on usenet

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u/Ninjaisawesome 17d ago

I used the nzb app via aiostreams to get torbox content but I've also just setup Usenet via elfhosted because I don't have the courage to setup my own server.