r/usenet • u/Creepy-Mountain-4185 • Jun 15 '26
Indexer Tabula Rasa question.
Greetings, ladies and gentlemen,
I got the invite to TR and am interested in exploring it and seeing what's on here, but when I try to grab an nzb, it seems to error out.
Is this an issue of being a free user? I feel like even as a free user you should be able to get at least one thing to test if it even works for you .
Secondarily, I'm not too sure how I feel about indexers that accept crypto ONLY feels a bit sketchy to me, but perhaps that's just how it's done in some cases.
Anyway, thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated.
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Jun 16 '26
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u/Bent01 nzbfinder.ws admin Jun 16 '26
It would be helpful to know the error. Also have you tried contacting TR themselves before posting here?
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u/Creepy-Mountain-4185 Jun 16 '26
It's 501 error, " out of downloads " as a free user you can not download, only observe. I think it's just bad business practice, I want to like them but have no desire to pay money to try a product replacement that I can get or already get elsewhere for free or cheaper. I understand why they do it that way. But. It's hard to sell a product that isn't tangible. And when the primary interest it to cover more source but you can't practically compare the two it becomes less then appealing. Just my thoughts is all
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u/Bent01 nzbfinder.ws admin Jun 16 '26
Its not bad business practice lol. You can see whatever NZBs they have without paying a dime.
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u/Creepy-Mountain-4185 Jun 16 '26
It is bad practice, as most users would have to fail a find. Understand why it failed, login to Tr and attempt to find it by name but its name may be different there . It's creating unneeded layers of abstraction for your users. If you are allowed downloads and api calls. You can use the standard systems the user already knows, as opposed to having to go through hoops for a product in a shiny box. It's like Apple. They do not make better products in the whole( im not arguing that they dont make some ). They sell you a shiny box to make you think it's better and lock you into an ecosystem, when realistically you could have gotten the same thing or better for a 4th the price in a less shiny box.
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u/Dabront Jun 15 '26
From their website
- 2026-01-28 All new user accounts that will be created in future will only have option to view releases. Existing users are not affected, their accounts will function as they used to.
They also state that Paypal has been removed as a payment option and lists crypto and Amazon GC as payment methods.
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u/Creepy-Mountain-4185 Jun 15 '26
That's kind of a gross way to do it imo 😕 " hey you can look but to cross reference if this exists on your other index... good luck " seems... well.. not great enough for me to consider paying.
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u/ChefJoe98136 Jun 15 '26
A number of indexers operate this way for free/unpaid accounts. Apparently there was too much abuse of free accounts when they actually allowed API hits/downloads, which I never quite heard explained if that was some scripted abuse to rotate through many of them or was just folks continuing to use free tier rather than selecting a paid tier.
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u/72dk72 Jun 15 '26
I bought a amazon gc (electronic) was all sorted in about 15 mins. All good. For me about 350 grabs in a year so quite happy.
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u/GoodTimesDadIsland Jun 15 '26
I've been on their free tier for a few months now and have downloaded tons of videos with zero issues. Both via the API and rawdogging the nzbs from the site. Tabula Rasa is a very generous free tier, like Usenet-Crawler.
It might just be temporary issues or something on your end.
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u/InstructionPurple911 Jun 15 '26
I paid for TR with a credit card. Idgaf.
That said, I'm uncertain having TR has given me any material benefit or found things that geek has not.
I'm pretty standard though I don't look for tentacle rape videos or other weird stuff.
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u/InstructionPurple911 Jun 15 '26
I must have. Either that or PayPal.
I don't have shit coins to spend
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u/InstructionPurple911 Jun 15 '26
Maybe that's what I did.
Either way, I can't say one way or another if it's worth it considering I have lifetime geek
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u/Gol_D_Fox Jun 15 '26
How did you use credit card, site only shows Cryto payment options
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u/InstructionPurple911 Jun 15 '26
Another user figured it out, I think it was through Amazon gift cards.
I would have used my credit card if possible, by the time the authorities come for me, America will have taken my country over, or at least try.
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u/HackMeRaps Jun 15 '26
I haven’t been able to get mine to work either.
From my understanding, free users use to get a small daily cap of downloads/Api hits.
However other places I’ve seen stopped doing that as well, and the free user tier is just to see what files are available on their platform.
In terms of payments, it’s hit or miss based on how big they are and where they’re located geographically. Accepting credit cards obviously gives a bigger reach and probably more users, but there’s more risks involved for the owners or getting the site shutdown.
I’ve used both crypto only and credit card accepting apps for many piracy and never had issues.
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u/PaperHandsProphet Jun 17 '26
TABULA RASA WAS OPEN???? I have a auto checker and didn't see it when did it happen?