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submitted 10 months ago by noraa_r@startrek.website to c/usenet@lemmy.world

If anyone has a Drunken Slug invite, I'd love one! Been trying to get one via Reddit r/UsenetInvites, but I'm always just a bit too late responding to the offers.

Thanks!

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[-] m_randall@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I’m right there with ya friend. I have the tab open and check every day for open enrollment!

Curious to see how this works out.

[-] Majoof@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago
[-] Majoof@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago
[-] biazt@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Same situation here. I've been looking for an invite for quite some time but it's been harder to come by than I had hoped.

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

What's drunken slug? Their website doesn't give many clues.

[-] noraa_r@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Premium (and invite only) NZB indexer.

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago
[-] noraa_r@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

NZBgeek? I'm honestly not sure. I currently use NZBgeek, and for the most part have been very happy with it. Lately, however, I've been running into some issues with articles no longer being available. I've tried a couple of different Usenet providers (had been using NewsgroupDirect - tried Newshosting and Eweka) to see if that would make a difference, and they didn't.

From reading around online, and specifically Reddit, Drunken Slug came up a lot as a good indexer. Some claim it to be better than NZBgeek, many say they're about the same. But most everyone agrees that having NZBgeek AND Drunken Slug is an ideal combination.

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I didn’t find that to be the case. I let slug drop last year after running them concurrently for 2 years.

I’ve read they scrape each other from people posting on Reddit. Having done a lot of manual searches in Sonarr that certainly seems likely, there was nearly 100% overlap, at least for what I looked for.

this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2024
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