Late to the party, but I'd suggest signing up a year of Frugal and configure your downloader for all the servers they provide, with the correct priorities set. I had Frugal and Eweka both for a brief time, with Frugal's servers prioritized higher, and it was very rare that Frugal didn't have what I was requesting
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Frugal imo is best bang for your buck and you get usenetfarm to go with it.
I agree. Although Usenet.farm is not as useful as it seems at first glance. They say 3000+ retention but that's only for text. Actual files they apparently only save for up to 70 days and only heavily accessed files for longer. That said, their Eweka still mainly fetches almost as much as if going with Eweka directly. The 2600 max retention can be a bit of a disadvantage if looking for very old niche stuff, but you might be able to find that stuff with the blocknews account if paid for a year.