NZBGrabit will shut down on April 9th, 2024

[anon]

A heads up for those who haven't seen this. If you have stuff bookmarked, get what you can before you can't.

Dear Members of our Community,

It is with a very heavy heart that i am forced to write this message to all members regarding our community.

As you are aware, we have always tried to be one step ahead of possible restrictions imposed or implied by server host's, DMCA and FACT trying to close us down.

For a few years now we have relied upon being firstly offshore (the old .SX site) and more recently by being russian based.

Unfortunately, the sanctions imposed globally because of the Ukraine conflict now means we fall foul of global sanctions against russian businesses.

Our server host has informed us that at the end of our current period that they will be withdrawing all services and be terminating our hosting on the 9th April 2024 due to EU sanctions. This decision was not easy for us, as we have always strived to serve our community to the best of our abilities. However, due to the reasons above, we can no longer continue our business operations.

We are fully aware this news will be as devastating to you as it is to us. we have all built and enjoyed our community as a safe space proving us with reliable information and knowledge to explore the Usenet.

Due to the size and format of our site, we do not have a host for the Community.

We have a plan to continue forward but as the community only without the NZBs due to hosting issues and wanting to keep the community together.

We wanted to take this opportunity to express our sincerest gratitude for your continued support throughout the 12 years we have been around for. Your loyalty and trust have been invaluable to us, and we are truly grateful for the relationships we have built within our community.

Transparency has always been one of our core values, and we wanted to ensure that you were informed about this decision as soon as possible. We believe in being open and honest with our valued members, and it is important to us that you understand the circumstances leading to this unfortunate outcome.

Once again, we would like to express our deepest gratitude for your support, and we hope that our paths may cross again in the future. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

Thank you for being a part of our community.

Donations received were always used to pay for all the site resources and only that and are non-refundable which was explained when donating. We will be continuing to give you all the latest content until this day comes, and we will also open the supporter up so you can also access the XXX content. Thank you again for the support that kept us around and the best for this long.

The request rules will also be relaxed, and you will now be able to ask for Box Sets and 5 more requests per month so go and use them to get the stuff you wanted before we can no longer provide it.

This thread will be left open for you all to discuss and say your goodbyes or swap contact information so you can all keep in touch.

The Facebook page and the Twitter pages will be kept live as long as possible.

We look forward to ideas and input from any and all members.

We thank every one of you as without your help, input and support we could not have survived this long.

Sincerely,
The NZBGrabit Team.

[Caballero]

Did not renew my membership when it came up end of last year... Seems to have been the right decision.

Something about a blind chicken.

[crazycabbie702]

NGL a bit sad to see the matrix close after all these years and domain hops

[anon]

Matrix closed a long time ago, making headlines in the process

Since obfuscation is mandatory these days, this leads to a paradoxical situation where the files are technically still available but effectively lost (unless someone makes and shares a backup of all the NZBs like with BD25).

[Bewegter]

How well connected and supportive are different Usenet forums and indexers to each other? I feel like that the German forums and indexers now work more together since the German Usenet community faced a big hit a few years ago. Like gathering and sharing dumps of discontinued projects with each other.
You all seem very well-informed ^^

[anon]

How well connected and supportive are different Usenet forums and indexers to each other?

Competition is abundant and all indexers need donations to survive, so under normal circumstances there isn't much incentive to cooperate - a few will ban you for sharing their NZBs elsewhere, even.

sharing dumps of discontinued projects with each other

This is such a good thing. One of Usenet's strong points compared to BitTorrent is that NZBs don't need trackers or seeders, and therefore remain fully downloadable even if their source dies... assuming you have a copy.

[Bewegter]

Competition is abundant and all indexers need donations to survive, so under normal circumstances there isn't much incentive to cooperate - a few will ban you for sharing their NZBs elsewhere, even.

That is true. Sharing NZBs is a no-go in the German Usenet community also. However, I think that after some important projects got shut down by law enforcement and inexperienced people tried to start new projects too, from which most got discontinued, other people wanted to give the uploaded files a long-term purpose. So these people try to get as many NZBs as possible to be able to "resurrect" the uploads. However, I am not well connected in this community yet, just now some people who are. Maybe the admins of those projects shared their NZBs too. But I think most didn't.

Well, I guess back to the topic. Sorry for going off the track. ^^

Too bad to lose another Indexer :/

[anon]

Maybe the admins of those projects shared their NZBs too. But I think most didn't.

Everyone assumes they'll live forever, and no one learns from those who were proven wrong

[crazycabbie702]

After three days the followers removed the boulder from the tomb and found their messiah not there.

Not exactly like that but NZB has risen from the shroud of "doubtin "