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XDCC search engines and networks suggestions (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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What search engines and networks do y'all visit when searching for what you need? The search engines on fmhy.net just don't return the right results and I have to !s on a network's channel to find out...

EDIT: It seems like I just got unlucky, https://xdcc-search.com/ works mostly, atleast for rizon

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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Same - have to !s Just gotta overcome the embarrassment

I don't think there can be a good search engine due to bots constantly reorganizing their offerings instead of just incrementing their list to add a new package.

But if anyone does know a good index that can keep up with the bot's changes, I'd appreciate it as well.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    Okay, thanks for confirming.

    Coming to networks, the ones mentioned on https://xdcc-search.com/networks should be good right? Have only been to rizon and irchighway so far.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I primarily use xdcc.eu and download from #beast-xdcc, #elitewarez, #moviegods (irc.abjects.net), the.source (irc.scenep2p.net), #elitewarez (irc.rizon.net), and sometimes #zombie-warez (irc.abandoned-irc.net)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    That engine gives wrong results half the time, bots offerings keep changing I guess...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    I've only had wrong IDs <=10%.

    Maybe I got lucky, or it changed recently. Or you got unlucky.

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    • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I have three bookmarked, the first also being a search bookmark, and listed there and works for me.

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    • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    I use irc.scenep2p.net

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (11 children)

    XDCC never sent me anything on scenep2p. Dunno what's wrong there, regarding networking or something. It works fine on multiple other networks.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (9 children)

    Passive vs active bots? I stopped using xdcc because nowadays lots of networks stopped using the right naming for passive/active bots. However in scenep2p the bots seems to be well named.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (6 children)

    I have no idea what you mean by passive/active bots. I have heard of passive and active DCC but not this.

    I don't look at the bots' names, just do a !s and get the xdcc command sent as a private notice

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    I have heard of passive and active DCC but not this.

    Well... it's the same thing.

    An active bot will initiate the connection, a passive will wait for you to connect. If you are under NAT then the active bot won't be able to connect to start the transfer and the transfer will just die without you knowing.

    The passive bots are identified with a 'p' in the name. Usually between pipes: |p|

    Unfortunately more and more channels don't indicate if the bots are passive or active. This fucks up the user experience, specially if you are in queue for hours and then the transfer fails. I stopped using xdcc because of this. There are still some good channels though...

    Try to use a passive bot and see if it helps.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    All the bots I've come across are passive so far, and not labeled ¯\(ツ)/¯

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    But you are not the OP that complained about never getting anything from the bots 😏

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    You know the answer and still ask? It's been 5 days since I asked the question, you folks are very cool, thanks a bunch for making it possible for me to use xdcc

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