Did you know most coyotes are illiterate?
Oh my god my biggest pet peeve is every single new project awarding itself “modern, lightweight, blazing fast”. Seeing these words actually negatively affects my perception of your new super cool project. Along with the fucking emojis.
aka:
Modern: “I couldn’t understand the codebase of the previous solution, so I rewrote it using stuff I’m familiar with”
Lightweight: “Featureless/no features that I don’t use”
Blazing fast: “Doesn’t have any edge cases handled yet”
Yeah that sounds about right. It also depends on which indexers you’re using, as I imagine the more public indexers will have a higher chance of getting takedowns from trolls. It’s worth noting that I believe the running theory is that a lot of 2021-2023 articles were voluntarily deleted to save space, resulting in issues even for .nzbs that weren’t takedown’d. It’s also theorized (and outright stated sometimes) that providers do silently delete data that is rarely or never accessed as well to save space, so that can be a random issue too.
Personally, I lean more into torrent technology because usenet can be fickle for these reasons even if you’re in the secret indexers, whereas if you’re in at least some semi-good private torrent trackers you’ll never have completion issues (just potentially slower downloads). I also feel like usenet’s scalability, future, and pricing is sort of uncertain.
It’s generally better to instead have more indexers, or indexers that repost stuff. Articles on the various providers often get taken down at the same time, so while it’s not a bad idea to get a lot of blocks just in case, you’ll get a better chance of completion by just trying a different .nzb
One of my pet peeves is that adage about how the modern internet is just 4 websites stealing content from each other. Because like, the websites themselves don’t make the content - the users do. There is no difference between a meme originating from instagram or ifunny; it was made by a person who wanted to create a unit of culture, and it’s your duty to make sure it spreads around.
Better yet, why put yourself at the mercy of something that can enshittify in the first place? I’ve never understood why people get into selfhosting and then go right back to giving power over their network to a 3rd party again.
I already read a lot of the lutris devs’ honest feelings about AI and their willingness to obfuscate what they’re doing with it in the initial issues/discussions. No offense, but I’m not all that interested in watching them attempt to whitewash and downplay what happened after they’ve had time to figure out how to spin it.