alternative: http://www.nzbsearch.net/
That's not really an alternative..
why not? admittedly, i didn't use nzbmatrix, but i do use nzbsearch and the ui is simple, easy to use - search is ok, but it seems to get the job done.
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#62I had noticed almost everything had been failing over the past few weeks with NZBMatrix... Back to torrents / DC++
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The index would be insanely huge. A lot of these indexing sites are used for their API. Dedicated applications like SickBeard automatically compile lists of wanted files (movies, TV rips and music) and use them to search against the provider. The provider returns a file (NZB) that contains references to hundreds of encoded files hosted on newsgroups. Here's a breakdown of one NZB, for a single 3.88GB file. Inside are…
There's no need for everybody to serve the entire index. Set up a DHT and let interested parties exchange the NZBs. All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection.
it's a reputational and data quality issue as well. completely decentralized content distribution doesn't usually work unless there is some kind of curation, there are just too many motivations for disruption. it's not an impossible problem, but long ago ceased being mostly about the technical occupation of shipping bits between nodes.
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They did utilize bitcoin. I purchased my VIP account with them via bitcoin.
My point was more that Bitcoin isn't widespread enough to compete with traditional payment processors yet, which would have saved these guys.
I would guess that also Bitcoin is nowhere stable enough to be taken seriously. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bitcoin_exchange.png
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#65Gotta say that I find it very questionable how many people dump on nzbmatrix or say that it was not necessary anyway.
Sure, if you only watch high quality stuff like Skyfall and listen to Lady Gaga, a site like nzbmatrix is probably useless to you. But for those who appreciate things that aren't that easy to come by, it is essential to have some sort of an index to even HEAR about them. My estimate is that at least half of the movies and games I got through nzbmatrix, I had not heard about anywhere else. And as every usenet user knows, it's basically just not possible to "browse" the usenet itself.
Then there are software releases where 95% are fake or bug-ridden. Where it saves a LOT of trial & error if people help each other out by posting only those that are for real.
And I found no other nzb site as useful when it comes to finding all new releases. And I have looked at them all because I did not appreciate nzbmatrix's own censorship.
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Binsearch is much harder to navigate.
Coupled with http://abteevee.allfilled.com and http://abmoovee.allfilled.com it's easy.
If you're looking for scene releases, just use a pre database like preDB.com. Find a release on preDB, copypasta the release name to binsearch, create the NZB, done.
Generally speaking it's very easy to find material just using binsearch. If you want a 1080p copy of a particular film, just search for the film name along with '1080p' and you're almost guaranteed to get relevant results on the first try.
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#67Gotta say that I find it very questionable how many people dump on nzbmatrix or say that it was not necessary anyway. Sure, if you only watch high quality stuff like Skyfall and listen to Lady Gaga, a site like nzbmatrix is probably useless to you. But for those who appreciate things that aren't that easy to come by, it is essential to have some sort of an index to even HEAR about them. My estimate is that at least h…
You don't need a usenet indexing site to learn about good indie movies or music. There are dozens of websites that review and discuss these things without releasing them for free against the authors wishes....
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#68Binsearch [0] usually does the trick for me. Admittedly I'm not a hardcore user.
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#69I had noticed almost everything had been failing over the past few weeks with NZBMatrix... Back to torrents / DC++
what is DC++ ?
An example of someone writing a better implementation of a program and taking over a protocol. DirectConnect was a centralized client-server file sharing program[1], with a client and server (both written in VB). DC++ was a C++ implementation that started out as 3rd party implementation of the client, and then IIRC the server. The original client/server were incredibly buggy, so DC++ client/server over-took the original client (they may have even extended the protocol).
[1]: Basically, you connect to a central server (that anyone can run), and you can share files with other connected to the server, chat with them (a single central chat room), private message connected users, and search files shared by connected users. Note: that some of this may be out of date as I'm mostly referring to the initial implementation.
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That's not really an alternative..
why not? admittedly, i didn't use nzbmatrix, but i do use nzbsearch and the ui is simple, easy to use - search is ok , but it seems to get the job done.
Sounds like NZBMatrix had an API for auto-download clients to consume. If NZBSearch doesn't have that it's not really a replacement.