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

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Both.
Personally I have one subscription and one block account on a different backbone.
So far i rarely had a missing article (usually older uploads).

[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] max2078@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Personally, I lean more into torrent

Why not both. Both is great

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I'm in some better trackers in and I usually prefer those over usenet.
What I actually like usenet for is that I can bypass my seedbox which has only so much space and I try to seed longterm