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[Newsgroups] UsenetHub - Innovative Usenet Browser

Yesterday I came across of very interesting (in my eyes unique cause I've never saw this before) project - UsenetHub.com.

First of all some history. I use Usenet for many years and it gets more and more difficult to find good and verified Nzb files. The classic search engines like Binsearch or NzbCLub are full with Nzbs but there are many fakes or password protected posts. Once Newznab indexers came to the market I thought that would be a beginning of new era - but no! All they make is take money for Nzb files that has same low quality as classic searchers. There are some private forums but paying for getting Nzb file is not what Usenet community wishes.

So I asked myself about if there is any single site that would be created as browser for Usenet binaries and verify them. I came across NGRBlog where new article appeared about UsenetHub and I checked the site. I was suprised that is exactly the way I expected how it should be.

The only one problem is that there are not so many files so I decoded to ask the support and got following question:

"Dear Sir,

we launched UsenetHub a week ago - it's very powerful but very new project. We've grabbed already whole available Usenet content. because we wish to provide quality all files will be manually moderated. The files you see were moderated by 10 moderators in just 7 days. Please give the site some time to fill it with binaries.

Sincerely
UsenetHub"

What you think about it? have you ever saw something similar?

"Manually moderated"? It's destined to ultimately fail. By the time that someone has manually moderated popular content, it likely will have already been killed my a DMCA takedown request. Newznab already automates the entire process and in some cases posts are taken down just as fast as they get indexed. No way a manual process is going to keep up.

Spot checking a few different categories and such, the only thing that might save them is the very low quality of the videos based on file sizes. Plus really old, outdated stuff. I couldn't find anything that I would consider current. As such, they'll probably fly under the radar as they aren't worth the time/hassle yet.