It’s definitely progress and seeing myself in one of the top results was nice but it’s going to take a lot more work and tbh the decentralised nature of the links might also hurt because clicking on the dbzero link looks like a hackerman link if you know what I mean

Yeah I’ve noticed my library has changed quite a bit and my storage needs are going to have to increase thanks to friends and family but is what it is.

I’ll look into overseer but seems like a lot more work than doplarr to setup

The most useful comment in this entire thread, the search results are a bit of a mess currently and that’s a huge stumbling block.

I tried a simple search query with lemmy and the way results come back is not good

it’s going to take a long time for that to change but just as a casual user I doubt I’d click anything past the first few reddit links.

All I could think about after reading your comment

Yeah I mean I can’t complain I’m part of the problem not posting content that isn’t memes just commenting…

It does make me wonder though sometimes, my feed is nothing but these kinds of memes being repeated daily…

It’s also why most people suggest multiple server providers on different backbones that solves that issue most of the time.

usenet is almost always faster, there’s never an issue with torrent lacking seeds and it’s theoretically safer as you do not upload any content when downloading which if you do download a lot using torrents will put you in a certain legal grey area about distributing files.

but aside from all of that the integration with the arr stack and the automation makes it just so much more god damned convenient.

I use Eweka/usenetprime and use Nzbplanet/NzbGeek these days.

You can get plenty of older shows on Usenet it’s not like you won’t find something like Star Trek from the 60’s. Hell I recently started downloading V from 1984 so…

For my less tech savvy friends/family I just have a bot in Discord that can do requests to sonarr/radarr https://github.com/kiranshila/Doplarr

Other options can be using something like tailscale and giving them the web access to sonarr/radarr

I feel the same way, but as others have said commenting is also participation

One of the first things I made sure of

100% get 2 providers 2 indexers and setup the Arr stack and never touch it again

this is me also, I’ve used transmission for over a decade across three operating systems it’s incredibly simple to get going but relatively powerful if you need it to be.

Honestly Plex/Emby/Jellyfin whichever you prefer is a gamechanger because if you have a large library of content then it just cuts the cord from the subscription services.

I’ve always been happy to pay for them until I went on holiday last January and realised that none of my services were working due to going to a country that was out of the way and the only way to access them was to use a VPN.

So having my own Netflix is a great thing.

Tailscale while doing the above is also really cool