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[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it was newsbin? This was years ago admittedly...

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow it really was ages ago if you mention newsbin as an indexer. Nowadays, indexer usually refers to privately run services that index nzbs for you. Most require a subscription fee, but are worth it because without them you can't really find anything manually anymore since the file names are all obfuscated. This really helps prevent copyright takedowns.

Yeah, I don't think there were discrete indexers.

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