Ensisoft releases Newsflash Plus 3.3.1

[ensisoft]

Hello,

Newsflash Plus 3.3.0b5 has been released with some major improvements. Please do note that it is a beta version so there are some rough edges. Any feedback is appreciated.

Also note that this is a completely free release for both platforms Windows and Linux.

http://www.ensisoft.com

I hope you enjoy using Newsflash Plus as much as I enjoy developing it.

[zot]

Great news. It's always nice to get communication from a developer. There's nothing like releasing free software to stand out from the pack and to build up a userbase.

As I said in another post, Newsflash's lack of fill-server support is what keeps me from using it, as just about all other modern clients support fill-servers (and it's bailed me out plenty of times). A lot of people just use a single provider (and complain about incompletes), but I preach the gospel of blockaccount fillservers. Hopefully it's on the list as a future feature.

[maphongbax]

I thought it was only free for linux. Do you intend to keep the program free permanently ?

[ensisoft]

I thought it was only free for linux. Do you intend to keep the program free permanently ?

Yes.

[stillwaiting]

Hello Sami ,have been testing it for couple days now and


1.Amazing what a man with a coding skill can do

2.Sami,you got the only good free program that handles headers,very good indeed!
even altbinz can not do that because he dont have the skills.

3.change name to sami the headerbinzer,name newsflash plus is not my cup of tea
was name newsflash taken(irony) flash is fast but with a plus does it go faster than speed of light
yes, im ranting but you got a great program so,why not a better name.

couple points i want to make, its was first very confusing how to manage headers.
and also to limit the header downloading is in %,but now when i got hang of it i like it.

using words like flush,expunge,boost,prefer secure,yield,clone is also little bit confusing.

use of search/newsnab,open nbz tabs must be better explained.
(search shows only old files)

here is faster par: http://paulhoule.com/phpar2/index.php or
http://www.chuchusoft.com/par2_tbb/download.html


reqs:

a start button before pause

a button go to downloads folder

when adding a server: enable disable server and max conn per server

RSS-feed import,(if this is done there is no other programs that is better out there!)

adding search by https://www.nzbindex.com/ and https://www.binsearch.info/


bugs: it doesent del dl rars and pars?

help - protocol c not supported

[ensisoft]

Thanks for the feedback guys. Most people just don't bother to provide any feedback and as a single developer without the resources to do usability studies etc. so developing end user friendly software is difficult.

@zot - Yes server priorization is on the list potentially, just got few things to sort out. I.e. it's easy to get it working for NZB based downloading (RSS feed/Search/NZB files) but for headers it is trickier. Anyway it won't make the coming 3.3.0 release.

@stillwaiting - Thanks for the phpar2 link.

RSS-feed import,(if this is done there is no other programs that is better out there!)

Can you clarify what RSS feed are you referring to and what does importing mean in this context?

it doesent del dl rars and pars?

Yep, although this is more like an unimplemented feature though. Easy enough to do with the embedded python.

help - protocol c not supported

Sorry, can you clarify what does this mean?


Thanks guys!

br,
ensi

[zot]

@zot - Yes server priorization is on the list potentially, just got few things to sort out. I.e. it's easy to get it working for NZB based downloading (RSS feed/Search/NZB files) but for headers it is trickier.

Then to speed up implementation, I'd suggest prioritising servers ONLY for NZB downloading (and falling back to a single server for headers). I think that header-originated downloads will tend be much less in need of fillservers because many people -like myself- only use headers for smaller files like MP3s. And without compressed headers (as it seems Newsflash doesn't support header compression) a person would be crazy to try to download headers in large groups like a.b.dvd.

The big files (most probably downloaded by NZB anyway) when incomplete can take an extremely long time to par-fix on an old PC -- even longer than to re-download over again from another server. That's one reason why I think fillserver support is a lot more important for NZB downloads than for header downloads.

[stillwaiting]

You truly have taken a big task to code a usefull usenet client by yourself ,once again kudos for that

Zot,you are spot on, i do like a client that can dl headers and also uses a search indexing sites to create and import nzbs.

you should see how Unzbin client(http://www.unzbin.com/) handles custom rss-feeds from search engines like nzbindex.com or binsearch.info
exmpel:http://rss.binsearch.net/rss.php?max...lt.binaries.tv it also have a auto-download feature.

about rars and pars: yes,there should be auto delete box for those files

bug: when i click on help? firefox popup (Firefox doesn't know how to open this address,
because the protocol (c) isn't associated with any program).

[ensisoft]

Hello all,

I have released Newsflash Plus 3.3.0b6 (yes beta6). This version will be quite close to the final release which will come in sync with the first Newznab release. This version includes some 20 odd fixes and a few small enhancements.

@stillwaiting
I've added a script for deleting all .par2 and .rar files after successful repair. One can now enable/disable this feature in settings. Also I've fixed the help bug you reported. Thanks for reporting.

About Usenet indexing and searching. I am not going support search for different sites with each one of them having different APIs and response feeds (such as binsearch.info, nzbmatrix.org, nzbs.org etc) because this would be too tedious.
What I am going to support however is the FREE INDEXING SERVICE called Newznab (www.newznab.com). However please do note that the currently Newznab is still under development and the first official release is coming out soonish. So hopefully in the future sites running Newznab will provide enough searching potential to cater for most needs. Additionally the Newznab WEB API is well documented and provides a simple API even for all clients to use (afaik Sickbeard is doing integration).

For other searching purposes and automation it's easy to have Newsflash Plus watch a group of folders for .nzb files and then just save the .nzb files in those folders with the browser etc. and have the application pick them up for downloading on the background.


Thank you all.

- ensi

[c0ld]

newznab is going to be awesome. hopefully we'll have more niche community run indexing sites.