What search engines and networks do y’all visit when searching for what you need? The search engines on fmhy.net just don’t return the right results and I have to !s on a network’s channel to find out…
EDIT: It seems like I just got unlucky, https://xdcc-search.com/ works mostly, atleast for rizon
I have three bookmarked, the first also being a search bookmark, and listed there and works for me.
sunxdcc seems to be shutting down 😢
Same - have to !s Just gotta overcome the embarrassment
I don’t think there can be a good search engine due to bots constantly reorganizing their offerings instead of just incrementing their list to add a new package.
But if anyone does know a good index that can keep up with the bot’s changes, I’d appreciate it as well.
Whats !s ? Search command in the chat?
Yup, it really depends on the bot, it can be
!s,!search,@searchand so on, depends on the person who created the bot …
Okay, thanks for confirming.
Coming to networks, the ones mentioned on https://xdcc-search.com/networks should be good right? Have only been to rizon and irchighway so far.
I primarily use xdcc.eu and download from #beast-xdcc, #elitewarez, #moviegods (irc.abjects.net), the.source (irc.scenep2p.net), #elitewarez (irc.rizon.net), and sometimes #zombie-warez (irc.abandoned-irc.net)
That engine gives wrong results half the time, bots offerings keep changing I guess…
I’ve only had wrong IDs <=10%.
Maybe I got lucky, or it changed recently. Or you got unlucky.
It seems like I just got unlucky!
I use the search engine to determine which network and channel has what I want. Usually it’s the same bot too. Then if the send command offers the wrong item, I just have to !s to figure out what the current pack # is.
I use irc.scenep2p.net
XDCC never sent me anything on scenep2p. Dunno what’s wrong there, regarding networking or something. It works fine on multiple other networks.
Passive vs active bots? I stopped using xdcc because nowadays lots of networks stopped using the right naming for passive/active bots. However in scenep2p the bots seems to be well named.
I have no idea what you mean by passive/active bots. I have heard of passive and active DCC but not this.
I don’t look at the bots’ names, just do a
!sand get the xdcc command sent as a private notice
You need to be registered on the network to be able to PM the bots, the network supports ssl and ircv3 as far as I can see. I am able to get files via xdcc.
