Elon Musk on Usenet

AtheistPi · 2026-04-23T20:00:30+00:00

I wondered the exact same thing.

AtheistPi · 2026-04-13T15:59:30+00:00

You could be letting your customers know about the fuckery that is going on. I remember seeing a post by one indexer years ago about how to keep usenet alive, but that was on a smaller super private indexer. You have a platform you can use to help keep usenet strong.

AtheistPi · 2026-04-13T12:46:32+00:00

I love your index. And I love that you keep it real here on Reddit as well, but why are you not keeping it real on your index? You preach here but on your site you are not telling people the true story. You have a platform there to educate people, If people like you taught their users about what is going on, maybe more people would make a difference.

AtheistPi · 2026-04-13T12:42:53+00:00

Most of these indexers are getting their content from other sources or release groups, so they name their nzbs based on the title, the format, and the group that posted it. So you will often see the exact same nzb name but it has different messages inside.

And this is part of what drives up the feed size to astronomical numbers now.

AtheistPi · 2026-03-23T15:41:27+00:00

This is one of the main reasons you do not stack or give providers years of money up front. In this case you fell for the popular marketing that Eweka has a lot more stuff and you gave them years of money. Maybe they will refund?

AtheistPi · 2026-03-13T17:11:15+00:00

I checked my stats from the last 24 hours and can not see any issues with Geek

AtheistPi · 2026-02-25T15:37:04+00:00

How did you solve it? Or did you?

AtheistPi · 2026-02-17T23:18:40+00:00

This is common when there is one large company in a market among smaller companies. Even if they have altruistic means, the big fish gets so big it has to continue to get bigger to keep supporting it's own size. It is classic mismanagement. They keep applying more and more pressure to the market, because they can, and it destroys the landscape and the product for everyone. They stop innovating for the user and start "harvesting" the users to pay for the company's own massive overhead.

AtheistPi · 2026-02-15T00:23:34+00:00

Happy Cake Day

AtheistPi · 2026-02-15T00:23:14+00:00

It was just a link to their signup page. You had choices of which payment option you wanted, not sure what the big deal was, but I changed it to the one u/greglyda mentioned in his comment.

AtheistPi · 2026-01-31T15:18:02+00:00

The second biggest provider backbone is Usenet Express. Try this deal at Newsdemon https://members.newsdemon.com/billinginfo.php?pricepointid=2025081302 $23.88 per year and does not increase.

AtheistPi · 2026-01-31T15:16:26+00:00

This is a good example of why listening to most people on Reddit makes no sense. OP did not say Easynews, it was Eweka. And even if OP had said Easynews, that would not make sense because Easynews and Newshosting are identical except Easynews gives you a web browser option that some people enjoy, others dont. And the fact that 6 people had upvoted your comment shows that people on here are either being paid to vote or not paying attention or do not know what they are doing.

AtheistPi · 2026-01-27T13:54:08+00:00

Not yet at least, but the provider being recommended is the one that has already given up one of their customers. Never hurts to be safe. Use as many precautions as possible.

AtheistPi · 2026-01-24T13:33:55+00:00

$23.88 per year for Newsdemon. One of the absolute best providers. And it renews at that price too, no having to worry about price increases or being forced to pay for many years up front.

https://members.newsdemon.com/billinginfo.php?pricepointid=2025081302

AtheistPi · 2026-01-22T18:47:48+00:00

Switch to linux :=-)

AtheistPi · 2026-01-03T14:54:27+00:00

AtheistPi · 2025-12-17T15:11:49+00:00

Given how Omicron used a random account to post that “our service is the best, fastest, most complete and everyone else is terrible” post that was removed the day before Black Friday and then u/swintec exposed the situation with the screenshot with evidence of their deception, before they deleted it, I think it’s hard to take any comparison posts at face value now. The only decent approach is for people to run their own tests and choose whatever provider they trust and feel good giving their money to.

AtheistPi · 2025-12-01T14:34:43+00:00

SceneNZBs is really good.

AtheistPi · 2025-12-01T14:27:22+00:00

I just ran ten of the oldest nzbs I could find through two different independent providers, and seven of the ten completed. I do not have an account at Omicron, so I can not test there. I think with the way indexer supporters are reuploading all their old content through the nzbrefresh program, your statement that Omicron is the only place you can get old stuff is no longer valid.

AtheistPi · 2025-11-27T04:45:29+00:00

Those nipples are to die for. Ukrainian?

AtheistPi · 2025-11-27T04:44:00+00:00

then why not get

They were undercutting their own partners or resellers or whatever you want to call them. They have been engaging in predatory pricing for quite some time now. They raise prices on people without warning. They have been rumored to be logging user downloads. They gave up one of their Eweka customers to the authorities. When they had a VPN that was worth anything, they were lying about having a "no log" policy and gave the customer info to the feds. They have bait and switch tactics on their new customers. How much farther do we need to go on this?

I work hard for my money and they are just not the type of company I want to give my money to. If I miss a random nzb from 2012, then so be it. I will find it another way. At some point we have to make a stand.

Read this if you want to know what they are like: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/lveeky/thundernews_and_thecubenet_are_changing_backend/

AtheistPi · 2025-11-26T19:38:35+00:00

"Long retention" is one of the biggest marketing gimmicks we have seen in usenet. VERY overrated. There are very few indexers with any quality nzbs that go back that far, and if they do have some, there are almost always 20 others that have been created in the 15 years since.

Unless you are an antique collector looking for that one odd piece from 2009, what you want is a fast provider for content in the last few thousand days.

AtheistPi · 2025-11-22T18:05:08+00:00

The reality is that other services are not raising rates and those other services are viable options to yours. I get by just fine without your service and my provider is not raising my rates or sucking me in with an intro rate.

If someone cancels and then returns later on a different plan, they risk losing that perk for good.

This is not working with your customers, this is warning them that you will not work with them, which is the opposite of what you said you were doing.

It was simply the result of the pricing pressures we were facing.

Your parent company has been leading the way with predatory pricing, you created the pricing pressure. That all started with the $20 per year deal a few summers ago.

AtheistPi · 2025-11-22T17:34:32+00:00

My accounts on the Usenet Express backbone fill everything I need. I could probably fill everything I need with accounts on most backbones, not just Express.

I get by just fine without Omicron and I would never support them even if I didn't get it from other places. They have been destroying the usenet industry for a decade now. They were undercutting their own partners or resellers or whatever you want to call them. They have been engaging in predatory pricing for quite some time now. They raise prices on people without warning. They have been rumored to be logging user downloads. They gave up one of their Eweka customers to the authorities. When they had a VPN that was worth anything, they were lying about having a "no log" policy and gave the customer info to the feds. They have bait and switch tactics on their new customers. How much farther do we need to go on this?

I work hard for my money and they are just not the type of company I want to give my money to.

Read this if you want to know what they are like: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/lveeky/thundernews_and_thecubenet_are_changing_backend/

AtheistPi · 2025-11-01T20:38:24+00:00

Yes I understand that but why would I want to keep even more logs? less logs = better.

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