Torrents in 2018?

[Flack]

Where are you finding valid NZB files these days? I haven't found anything but garbage on Usenet in years.

[RealNC]

Where are you finding valid NZB files these days? I haven't found anything but garbage on Usenet in years.

Two indexers mainly. nzb.su (now moving to nzb.life), and usenet-crawler.com. Those are the paid ones I use ($15 a year on the former, and I have a lifetime pass on the latter.) I would say nzb.life is the best one. Excellent UI and I never found an NZB that won't download or is password protected. But both have NZBs that go back 16 years. Obviously whether or not the files are fetchable depends on your Usenet provider. On Torbox I haven't encountered any that didn't work.

IIRC, nzb.life has a 24-hour trial when you register, but not sure if that trial includes full 16 year retention.

The other ones I sometimes use when I want to triple-check:

nzbfinder.ws
althub.co.za
nzbindex.com
binsearch.info (this one only has raw searching.)

I don't have premium accounts on those though, which usually means retention is only like a couple years.

This is how an nzb.life paid account looks like:

nzblife.jpg

[Roody_Yogurt]

And now for what everybody really wants, a torrent for 16 gigabytes of material related to text games:

https://www.retro-exo.com/if.html

[RealNC]

Where are you finding valid NZB files these days? I haven't found anything but garbage on Usenet in years.

This just in:

One of the best private Usenet indexers out there, NinjaCentral, is usually invite-only. But they have opened up their registration today, no idea for how long:

https://ninjacentral.co.za

I was trying to get into that one for a while. It almost always comes up in discussions about what the best indexer is (usually together with nzb.su.)

[RealNC]

DrunkenSlug (drunkenslug.com) is also opening up registration for a day. I guess it's a July 4th thing where many private sites open up registration for 24 hours.

Happy Treason Day :P