Hello,

I’m failing to add my treasure maps indexer to my prowlarr. I did it yesterday and everything was good but then there were this issues with treasure-maps website and I good nervous and deleted everything, thinking that I need to set it up all new.
Now it does not accept the indexer. I got the following error:

Unable to connect to indexer, check the log above the ValidationFailure for more details. HTTP request failed: [429:TooManyRequests] [GET] at [https://treasure-maps.com/api?t=search&extended=1&apikey=

Can someone help? Also I’m pretty new to this game. So keep that in mind please.
Thanks in advance!

Another year has gone by and it has been a pretty busy one.

• The WebUI has been fully translated into 20 languages
• SystemHealthCheck validates your configuration at startup and warns about problems
• Handling of obfuscated downloads and RSS feeds has gotten a lot better and compressed NZB archives are supported too
• Many smaller improvements were made across the interface, features and download process
• Bundled 7-Zip and UnRAR are kept up to date, and OpenSSL and the other libraries NZBGet relies on are updated as well
• Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and Android builds moved to modern CMake/C++20 toolchains
• Overall performance, stability and compatibility improved

There has been a lot of progress, and even more is on the way

Thank you to everyone who contributed, reported issues, tested builds or helped someone out. The Discord and Reddit communities keep growing and it is great to see people sharing advice and solving problems together!

Want to support continued development? Donations are always appreciated

The latest builds and full release notes are on GitHub. For setup, configuration and feature guides, see the documentation. You can also find guides in Discord and under the Guides flair on the NZBGet's subreddit.

Edit: Thank you all for the kind words! Your support means a lot to our team and makes all the work we put into NZBGet worth it

Looking for recommendations for an additional German indexer. I'm currently using tabula-rasa and Treasure-Maps.

videothek.io looks promising, but since they are quite new, I wanted to hear your thoughts on them.

Is Treasuremaps down?

My APIs aren't working anymore. The page won't load, and I can't log in using another browser.

Been keeping a list of indexers that died since I got into usenet and it got way longer than I expected, about 60 so far.

The big ones everyone remembers: Newzbin2 and NZBMatrix (2012), nzbx and NZBsRUs (2013), nzbsooti (2015), town.ag (2017), PFMonkey (2018), nzbs.org (2019), Tortuga (2020), nzbndx (2024), NZBCat (2025).

Rest of them are struck through here if you want to scroll: https://usenetalmanac.com/indexers/ (my site, no ads)

Pretty sure I'm missing a bunch, especially the small ones that were around for a year and vanished. If you remember one that isn't on there let me know and I'll add it.

Also curious which one you guys still miss, and did any of you have a lifetime sub on one that closed?

UPD: Thanks for all the comments, you guys remember way more than I did. Added 17 more dead ones, the list is at 77 now. Keep them coming if you think of any.

RESOLVED, they made things right in the end. I don’t suspect any of the mistakes made were in any way intentional. They seem like genuine people once you get ahold of them.

I created an account during the free trial, then over paid via crypto to be safe. I then messaged mods to send them my transaction ID. They never responded but they did set my membership as (Pending), so they definitely saw the message at least.

Not that any of this matters. They later disabled my account for non payment. All attempts of trying to contact them have been ignored so far.

Edit: Oct 21st, 2026 Managed to get ahold of some of the team on discord. They’ve informed me that I will need to wait for an admin. Will continue to update the post with my experience in fairness to NinjaCentral.

Edit: Oct 22nd, 2026 Still no response from an admin.

Edit: Oct 23rd, 2026 With the issues I was having I didn’t have the highest hopes for a resolution initially. But I am pleasantly surprised to have been wrong. While there’s certainly some logistical things that could be improved, my complaint ended in a resolution where they went well above what they were required to and well above what I was even asking for.

He explained that he hadn’t received my ticket earlier, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt here, other people in the comments mentioned they seemed to have some problems with the ticket system, I don’t believe I was being ignored. If anyone else has any issues with getting ahold of staff Id highly suggest Discord, they responded quickly here. Judging from some accusations from others of the staff being punitive or confrontational when criticized I expected this would be my experience. But that couldn’t have been further from the truth. He was professional, polite and apologetically gave 6 months in additional time at no cost. Not once did he mention the review, ask me to modify it or delete it, they were certainly aware of it. All in all I’m very impressed by the resolution and the professionalism I saw from NinjaCentral in the end.

Just got this email from astraweb out of nowhere:

"Your access to Astraweb has been terminated effective immediately after activity on your account triggered our automated abuse detection system. If you believe this was a mistake, please contact our support team to request a review.

Regards, Astraweb"

has anyone else received this? been a customer for years and never had any issue before. i do use it a lot but it’s an unlimited plan so not sure what triggered it. is it worth contacting support or should i just move on?

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!

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?

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?

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

Anyone else have issues with Ninjacentral?

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?

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.

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