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Spottarr: A modern spotnet client and index for your *arr apps. (github.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The aim of Spottarr is to provide a more modern application that aims for efficiency and more precise search results, while leaving the media management and browsing to the existing *Arrs.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For those who are unfamiliar with the Spotweb client for Spotnet:

Spotweb is a Spotnet implementation in PHP. Spotnet only shows actual Spots - spots are manually created by humans which categorize them and provide an image and description for the spot. You cannot compare Spotweb with for example Newznab or other such systems as its a moderated and curated system with manual intervention.

This makes Spotweb slightly slower for new content but should most likely raise the bar on quality - depending on the Spotters.

Spotarr is an alternative client.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is a Spot?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A spot includes a downloadable file and accompanying metadata and is intended to be shared with other users. A spot can be compared to a traditional search engine index entry. However, the difference is that it is user-generated and is intended to help people identify, organize, and share content.

The layman would think of it as a file. So music, movies, text, whatever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So is this just like a free usenet indexer? If so does it get more takedowns because there's no account?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Wait it wants to connect to a provider as well, is this a Usenet downloader with its own indexer system built in?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish Usenet wasn‘t misunderstood as a file sharing network anymore.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And we went back to it being used as forums?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I still use it as forums. That's what it can do best.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was just confirming. It seemed to me that use had tapered off completely. Glad to know that's not the case. In a way, Lemmy is essentially a reimplementation of Usenet. Decentralized, federated forums.

What server do you use?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In a way, Lemmy is essentially a reimplementation of Usenet. Decentralized, federated forums.

Usenet was never really "federated". All servers mirror slightly different hierarchies (with the free ones usually focusing on text and the commercial ones focusing on binary files).

What server do you use?

I've been a happy user of Eternal September (the name alone was awesome enough!) for quite some time now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks! Was it always not federated? I thought it was, in is halcyon days. Might be just my faulty memory though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Maybe there were days when all Usenet servers had all hierarchies. I’m probably too young.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anybody tried this Spotnet thing in practice? How do the results rank vs centralized indexers?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I’m running SpotWeb to browse spots. It’s kind of a curated list of NZBs. So, most things you can find a spot for, are still actually available to download.

It was heavily used by the Dutch to distribute movies with baked-in (“ingebakken”) Dutch subtitles for older media players.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Sorry so this is a prowlarr-like?