Because my main server is running UnRAID and most things are ran in containers. I could probably do it in a VM, but it seemed like more of a hassle and it might have the same discovery issue the container had. Throwing it in an old dying server as a package is what I ended up doing, but I’m not happy about it. 😅

I could not get CUPS working in a docker container for the life of me. So now I have a stupid little CUPS server.

It does work great, even though it feels like they finished dev in 2003 and never revisited it.

It works a lot smoother for me, though I do see signs of things changing with torrent stuff.

Usenet is much more consistent and works better with automation software like radarr and sonarr. It’s all scene naming so you are less likely to pickup something joe blow made poorly. It is also much easier to find older things since you aren’t relying on active seeders.

It’s safer because it’s not illegal to download said files, just distribute them. Also no one cares about Usenet.

Never had a problem with quality, I have minimum and maximum quality settings configured for different profiles.

That said, it might be worth looking into Stremio and Debride. I’ve been seeing that pop up lately and it’s mostly torrent based.

One piece of advice if you go usenet, for good performance you want two accounts. Your main account and a secondary account on a different backbone provider. There are a lot of resellers, so make sure the parents are different. This is because they get a ton of takedown notices, so you might get holes here and there in the rars. But you can usually pick those up from your secondary. The software handles this automatically but you need the accounts.

Usually your main is some kind of unlimited subscription and the backup is a block account where you pay for a chunk of data at a time, but you do you.