nzb.life down for me from the UK, anyone else have the same?

AniFix.org is now live! I goofed the first post and it's now fixed pointing to the correct place sorry!

A Usenet indexer focused on strong metadata, consistent naming, and verified releases.

Feel free to take a look, ask questions, or share feedback!

Hey everyone, I have a lifetime subscription to Usenet Crawler, and I really like it because it has a lot of Linux ISOs in Brazilian Portuguese. Can you recommend any other indexers with a good amount of Brazilian Portuguese Linux ISOs to subscribe to during the Black Friday sales?

I’m looking for an all around indexer that works and plays well with ElfHosted, yes I know many people disagree with ElfHosted but I did not have the time to set things up myself, I’m looking for something what will play well with it, I was using nzb finder and they blocked my account, any other one I could use currently nzb geek with no issues but I would like a back up one what would everyone suggest

Say, for example, I have 4 provider servers and 2 indexers. The two indexers consistently fail to turn up what I'm looking for. If I add another indexer, will that give me a different result with the existing providers, or will I also have to add a new provider(s)?

What about the other way around. If I add a 5th provider, might that give me different results with the same 2 indexers?

I have decided to go with Usenet for Arrstack apps. Can someone guide me on which provider to choose among Newshosting, Eweka, and Usenetserver? Or am I missing anything else? I would also appreciate guidance on which indexer to choose. SABnbz is the application I will use.

Hi everyone,I'm relatively new to usenet,I was hoping to buy nzbfinder in this black friday sale but I'm worried if paying through UPI is safe ? Will it leak my personal data or any major security issue going forward please help me also are there any providers which accept upi ? Thanks 🙏

I'm new to this space and would like to get some of the better indexers for my setup. I want to implement some sort of automation tool that checks either the signup pages or posts on r/UsenetInvites. I don't know of any way of doing this that doesn't end with my IP getting blacklisted after a day.

Is this a thing already? Is it allowed?

For some reason, recently I cannot access any of my Usenet indexers (NZBGeek, DogNZB or DrukenSlug) via Edge or Chrome. I can access fine via Firefox. This seemed to have happened in the last couple of weeks, as I know I was on the DogNZB website about two or three weeks ago using Edge. When I try go to these sites via Edge or Chrome, I just get a "this site can't be reached" page. Any idea why this is?

Hi All , I’m tired of torrents and really want to set up Usenet and automate my downloads can you suggest software. Is SABnzbd okay , can you recommend a Usenet provider and indexer? Thanking you in advance for support

Just created my small Usenet uploading tool.

There are mostly three reasons:

- I always had issues with installing Nyuu on my systems due to dependencies
- Nyuu unexpectedly died on me during very big upload when WiFi got disconnected
- Nyuu’s checking/repairing logic makes no sense to me. It uploads article to server A, checks availability on server B, and if that fails, uploads article again to server A. In the past I was encountering some situations when there was some kind of bottleneck, and even with longer wait and three retries article had not enough time to travel from server A to server B, so Nyuu pointlessly was trying to send same article over and over to server A until upload fails. So instead of ABA logic, I implemented ABB and ABC.

Couple of things about it:

- Written in Elixir
- It’s using same .authinfo files as Emacs
- I didn’t do any speed comparisons. I suspect with modern code execution speeds we’ll hit disc speed limit/connection speed limit long before we’ll hit the speed limit of yEnc encoder function
- TUI is not really UI :) There’s nothing to interact with except pause button and Ctrl-C. It’s more of a screensaver to have something moving on the screen during long uploads
- It’s possible that I made some shameful mistakes
- There are currently not that many features. Just simple uploader

Otherwise, please check it out and let me know what you think.

Is there a way to know when registrations open? I know it’s invite only but sometimes it opens on Black Friday?

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Anyone else have issues with Ninjacentral?

Title really speaks for itself.... I currently have altHub, Drunkenslug, NZBFinder, & NZBgeek. Can I get anything that focuses solely on audio better than those?

I have been going down the rabbit hole of those artifacts of the 1990s Usenet: self-classifying codes people used to put in their signatures.

The most well-known code is the Geek Code, which full specification is still available online. This website lists more than 80 self-classification codes, but unfortunately does not link to their detailed specs (or even one example).

Does anyone know where to find more of such specs or examples, whether on the Web, the Wayback Machine, or elsewhere online?

Hey guys,

Just noticed that one of my indexers (TreasureMaps) seems to be down.
I am only getting a 502 Bad Gateway response (both on my local network and via a VPN).

Does anyone have any idea if they are currently updating some stuff or what's going on?

Every November somebody asks "is the lifetime deal worth it?" and the answers are always vibes. So I went through everything posted here since 2011 that mentions a lifetime indexer account: sales, shutdowns, angry threads, all of it.

Turns out "lifetime" has a pretty wild history. Here's what I found.

The best deal anyone ever got

In August 2014 NZBGeek's "Forever Geek" pass cost $30. On Black Friday 2016, 2017 and 2018 it was $20.

If you bought one back then, it still works today. That's 8 to 12 years of indexer for $20-30, or roughly $2-3 a year. A plain year at Geek costs $12 now.

The price climbed as it went: $30 → $20 on sales → $30 again in 2019 (announcement thread) → $60 on BF 2021 → $80 list today. Early buyers won big.

So yes, lifetime can be the best money you ever spend on usenet. Now for the other side.

Lifetime, until it isn't

1. The indexer takes it back

NZBsRUs, January 2013. Lifetime VIPs woke up downgraded. The front page said members with 3+ years would be "kept at the current 1 year vip level" and everyone else got 5 years (thread). Thread title: "'Lifetime' VIP members at NZBsRus get screwed."

Plot twist: another indexer, nzbX, jumped in and offered free lifetime premium to everyone NZBsRUs had burned. Five months later both of them were gone, nine days apart. A lifetime of a lifetime.

DOGnzb, October 2015. The operator posted it himself: "By now, most of you probably already read we decided to void the lifetime accounts." His reason was actually pretty honest: with one-time payments, the only income is new users, and that doesn't keep servers running (thread).

DOGnzb again, August 2026. Eleven years later the remaining lifetime accounts were converted to a "Lite" tier: from 50 NZBs a day down to 10 (thread). Nobody lost access completely, but it's not what people bought.

2. The site just dies

Look at the price column here:

Notice it? Almost every $10 lifetime ended badly. The nzbsooti owner said it out loud in his goodbye post: "In the past few months we have recieved almost no donations." If an indexer sells forever for the price of a pizza, there's not much money keeping the lights on.

3. The happy accident

NZBs2Go shut down, then came back in 2020 after years away, and a member got an email saying "old VIP lifetime memberships are still being honoured." Then it closed for good in 2021. So some people got their lifetime twice. Rare, but it happens.

So when does lifetime pay off?

Simple math: lifetime price ÷ the yearly tier with the same limits = how many years until you're ahead. (Comparing against the cheapest yearly tier is a trap, lifetime often comes with way bigger limits. Thanks to the commenter who caught that.)

Regular list prices, no sales, last read between Dec 2025 and Sep 2026. NinjaCentral's cheaper regular lifetime only shows up during Black Friday, at €50-60 the last few years.

NZBPlanet and Miatrix stand out: both pay off in about two and a half years at full price. Planet's lifetime has been basically £40 since at least 2021 and it went on sale in most Novembers I could find. DrunkenSlug and nzb.life don't sell lifetime at all, so don't wait for one.

What I'd take from all this

• Lifetime is a bet on the indexer, not a purchase. You're betting it outlives your break-even point.
• Old + break-even in 3-5 years = good bet. An indexer that has already survived 10+ years and pays off fast is the best case.
• New + cheap lifetime = the worst track record here. Every story in the "site died" table started like that.
• Terms can change under you. DOG did it twice, 11 years apart. "Lifetime" means the indexer's lifetime and its current mood.
• Never put your only indexer on a lifetime. Have a second one so a shutdown is an annoyance, not a crisis.

Anyone here actually lose a lifetime I missed? Or still running one from 2014? Curious how many are still alive.

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UPD: fair point from the comments, this reads way too much like an LLM wrote it. English isn't my first language and I leaned on it too hard. The data and the threads are all real, but next one I'll write myself. Thanks for calling it out

tried changing password, still same issue.

*update*

support reached out directly to me in a chat and it looks like the issue is resolved now, less than 5 minutes later. that's great support.

Does nzbnest have offers for lifetime subscription during black friday? I had setup nest as a backup not too long ago (thanks to their beta), while I have sub for geek. At that time internet told me geek was the gold standard, but I see lot better quality (and also quantity) on nest in the past couple of days. Not sure if it is due to geek's strict upload policy, getting disappointing results lately. Wonder what is the best offer I can get before year end.

Already have Newshosting on the Omicron backbone. Thinking of adding an additional service. Any thoughts on Usenet.Farm?

Some time ago I saw that SceneNZB changed to TreasureMaps, but now there is also a similar indexer with the same domain, I think: https://scenenzb.org/login.php

So which one is the real one? I need some German language and maybe Italian too.

I keep getting periodic emails from the indexer claiming I am still reaching the old url with api requests. the problem is I changed prowlarr over to the “official” .life indexer set up and ensured everything was .life etc., so I don’t know what else could be going on here.

Does anyone have any ideas for what I may be missing? I’ve checked the rest of my stack and everything just points to prowlarr, so there aren’t any other separate indexer listings being used.