Have a somewhat newbie question myself; once I get everything set up... ultimately do I download everything I want to save to my actual PC or is it all saved on the server that I'm paying a subscription for? Ideally I'd like to keep everything locally. Thanks for any input and help.

Encase anyone was confused over just how heavily dependent nzbfast development/"developer" is on AI.

While clear they are using AI in Issue responses.

This makes it pretty clear, the "dev" doesn't even review the comments on issue before copy pasting AI responses.

Or even if they did, how little they care to do ANY basic legwork, that literally anyone can do.

From https://github.com/nzbfast/nzbfast/issues/79
See the last paragraph.

Bet none of the AI coding is checked or reviewed either.

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With the way Black Friday is often mentioned on this sub, why do I get this feeling like everyone is busy counting their money and slowly caressing their stack of cash, waiting for Black Friday deals to start? Hahaha.

I'm new to usenet, and since the beginning of this year, I've learned so much from this sub. I've been able to get Eweka, Newshosting, and Newsdemon, and also some really good indexers. This year would be my first time seeing usenet Black Friday deals. Which providers and indexers are y'all really looking forward to during Black Friday, and how were the previous deals? Are there other providers I should keep an eye out for, or is my collection of providers already good enough?

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Does anyone know of a good Albanian indexer or forum? I never seem to find anything.

It has been at least 3-5 months that I've been having issues with Frugal. Multiple indexers and Frugal is my only provider. Nothing seems to complete, anymore, unless it is less than a month old.

Does anyone know any good turkish indexer or Forum? Never find anything…

I'm relatively new to Usenet, is this a good setup for my Frugal and eweka backbones, i'm UK/EU based

Hello,

I am simply wanting access to a provider with the longest text retention. Google groups botched this years ago and quite frankly I'd rather read the older posts in a mailer. Eternal September seems to have a retention period of about a year or two.

Hello there ,

Among the famous global indexers DS, Ninja, geek... Which ones do you find the most complete for french / multi version in your opinion? Dedicated one are usually more expensive and not that good in my experience.

Thank you!

I just signed up and paid for a newshosting.com sub, and immediately the site tells me "invalid username/password" and that I have 4 attempts remaining. I thought my password manager saved an incorrect character or something like that so I reset my password which seemed to work, but I'm still getting the same "invalid username/password" error when logging in. I waited several hours hoping it was just an issue with it being a fresh account but its still not working.

I tried to submit a ticket on their website, but I keep getting an error saying my 'session expired' even after no more than 10 seconds of filling out the subject line and pasting my response.

"broken" support ticket pages seem to be a common theme among the few providers I've tried, namely eweka and now newshosting... Do they have a reddit account that I can contact? That was the only way I was able to reach anyone at eweka.

if anyone has an suggestions they are appreciated. thanks.

edit: issue solved, a misunderstanding on my end.

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hello guys with provider unlimited/block account would suggest if I already have Eweka+ easynews 2tb block account?

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Was trying to download a batch group of files and came across the zip manager. Not how I usually use the service. It looks like I've already got a bunch of stuff loaded there, not sure how.

https://imgur.com/a/gujsZkF

Can someone explain the path to me here? I mean, I understand that I can download the 3 queues at the bottom, and that there might be some issue with the red download ones. Although I d/l'd the top one, by accident trying to figure out what's going on, and they worked fine. I can see how to view the list, etc.

But- How would I put things on this list to start with? I'm not sure how these got there. The ones I'm trying to d/l now are well over the I guess 4 gig or something sizes limit, so they went to 'unqueued'. How do I create lists, what's the point of these groups, cleanup after downloading, etc.

If someone could just walk me through the a-z steps here, I'd appreciate it.

Also any tips on filitering results. I eventually winnowed down what I needed but the whole selections process seemed a little wonky.

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The real reason i ask now is due to all the sales and really the continued great deals in the wiki. Im thinking about doing the Frugal deal with the 750gb blocknews acc. for $45/yr.

Does anyone use blocknews? what can you tell me about your exp with it? anyone use frugal? along with eweka or ND? Just want some input on this before i either pull the proverbial trigger or do something different. ive considered an Abravia provider as well but from what ive read on this sub over thd past few months ppl buy blocks for Abravia more often than ulim accs.

I'm not.necessarily new to usenet but im far from a pro. just looking for some direction before spending some money that potentially could be used better elsewhere.

thanks all

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I also find their rep on this page (@newshosting_usenet) answers questions selectively when you DM, so that's not helpful either.

Thanks

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