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Jun 20 2006 11:06 GMT - Paypal account closed
Hello
Paypal have closed the ngindex account without possiblity of dispute. This means that any customers that use paypal to subscribe will have no further money taken, and the accounts will eventually expire. When your accounts expire, you can continue subscribing with our credit card payment system. As things stand, its not looking like paypal will be an available method of payment in the future.
We are working on other payment models and systems at the moment, and will keep you posted as time goes on.
If you have any queries regarding this issue, please contact admin@ngindex.com.
Thanks for your paitence
Adam
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May 29 2006 10:57 GMT - Images status
There has been a minor problem and the last 12 hours of images have been currupted. This problem has now been fixed and the broken images are being back filled.
Thanks
Adam
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May 07 2006 13:16 GMT - Files search now properly working
Hello
The index for the files search mode has now been fixed and all raw searches are working again.
Thanks
Adam
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May 03 2006 14:36 GMT - New Server
Hello
sorry for the lack of updates on the server situation recenty, we have been unable to post any news due to config problems.
NGindex is now back up and fully running on a completly new server, and all sections are back and working!.
Sorry this has taken so long, we have had several hardware problems and many setbacks. Retention is now back to 70+ days, and images are now back too (although there are not that many yet, they are being downloaded at the moment.
The forum missing features will be back shortly.
Thanks for your paitence.
Adam
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Apr 01 2006 10:59 GMT - Downtime
Hello
Sorry for the recent downtime today, we have recovered the site and are looking into the cause of the issue (looks like a hardware fault)
Adam
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Feb 27 2006 17:50 GMT - Login problems
Hello
A small ammount of customers have been experiencing problems with logging in recently. This problem has now been solved. We apologise for the delay in fixing this. All payments have now been properly credited to the relevant accounts.
Thanks
Ngindex Administration Team
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Feb 13 2006 13:31 GMT - Missing images
We had a problem with the image storage device and unfortunalty lost the linking data for about 20 days worth of images. These images will be back filled over the next few days.
Ngindex admin team
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Jan 31 2006 13:03 GMT - MultiNZB available on Posts and 'More by this poster'
Weve added the multinzb function to the posts section, and also the 'More By This Poster' within the file set information page.
Adam
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Jan 26 2006 07:47 GMT - Loads of Site Updates
Posts update
New sections added to posts, and more items added to existing sections.
Browse files by category
Examine files within multiple groups at once
Examine PAR2 and SFV files
See a list of files in parity and sfv file, check see if the post is complete
File set and post bookmarks
Bookmark sets of files for later viewing or downloading
Quick file counts for file sets
Lists number of pars, rars, mp3s etc in a file set in the popup overview and main post information
View other posts by same author
Look at file sets which have been posted by the same author
View thumbnails for file set
Quickly view what images in a file set
Email file set to a friend
Send a email to a friend notifiying them of an interesting file set
Image Zips
Download all the images in a file set in one zip file
Also several misc fixes relating to the site and backend processing
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Jan 19 2006 10:49 GMT - Grouping rollback
We have had to roll back the file sets a few days.
This means that some data will be unavailable over the next few hours.
Sorry for the problems
Adam
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Jan 18 2006 08:51 GMT - Database Problems
Hello
As some of you may have spotted, weve been having some database curruption problems in the last week or 2. We have yet to figure out what is actually causing these problems, and apologise for any parts of the site that stop funtioning because of it.
Please keep informing up of any tables on the site that cause this error.
We are working to figure out what is causing this and will keep you updated on progress.
Thanks
Adam
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Jan 17 2006 08:33 GMT - PSP and PS2 added to Posts
2 new section have been added to posts, for PSP and PS2. Several more are being worked on and will be available when they are more ready.
Thanks
Adam
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Jan 16 2006 08:24 GMT - Slow Payment Processing
We have had issues over the weekend with out payment processing system, and any new account have had a 36 hour delay on accepting new payments. We apologise for any accounts that have been made temporarilay unavailable due to this.
The problem has now been fixed
Adam
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Dec 30 2005 10:48 GMT - Minor Site Update
Weve just put live a few small changes that were made over the last few weeks.
The include removing the NZB Store, and replacing it with the (we thing) more usefull Multi-NZB feature. It basically does the same but easier.
If people want the nzb store back as well, just shout up.
Top 10 Stats (as requested on the forum) are also now available.
There are numerous bug fixes too.
Posts has had some minore re-organisation, and has been integraed with the live site to allow us to be less carefull on the development version. Its still not finnished, but were getting there. Sections that have no data or problems have been removed and will be added as time goes on and they become finnished.
Adam
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Dec 16 2005 06:36 GMT - Downtime solved!
After many hours trying to figure out what was happening to the web server to cause the recent spells of downtime weve got it solver.
It was being caused by a memory leak in the image zip download code. This has been disabled for the time being while the bug is fixed and will be back soon.
The should hopefully no more downtime and things should be back to stable.
Also, the house and office move is done, and development is back underway, so posts shouldnt be far off!
Thanks
Adam
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Dec 13 2005 07:12 GMT - Occasional Downtime
Sorry about the occasional downtime recently. Were not sure what keeps causing this yet but are working like crazy to figure it out. We will have this problem sortd out asap, and are putting in place automatic notification and reboots for when the server stops responding.
Thanks for your continued custom
Adam
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Nov 25 2005 09:03 GMT - Delay in credit card payment processing
Hello
We have had a delay in any payment processing of credit card payments over the last 5 or so days. We sincerly apologise for any delays or inaccesable accounts during the last few days. This problem has now been fixed. If anyone still has an account that they cant access and have made a payment for please contact us ASAP so we can get your account back up and runing.
Again, apologies for the delay in fixing this, our development servers have been offline due to an office move which has slowed down response time considerable.
Thanks for your continued support
Adam
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Nov 18 2005 18:18 GMT - Slow support / no updates
Just a warning that there will probably by a delay in answering support emails due to moving house / office in this weekend, and not having broadband access for about 2 weeks. We will try and get any support answered in 24 hours, but no development or site changes will be done during the next few weeks (except critical bugs).
Things will be back to normal soon.
Adam
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Nov 15 2005 06:09 GMT - Update Problem
Hi
There has been a few problems updating the data over the last few days (not sure exactly why, the database became heavily currupted - same thing that caused nfo wieredness).
The data should have been upto data about 12 hours ago, but it has taken a lot longer due to one of our news providers being down.
We will be back to full service asap, which should be in the next few hours.
Sorry for the problems
Adam
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Nov 11 2005 10:47 GMT - NFOS files fixed
The nfo files seem to be fixed again, and are currently being re-downloaded for all the older posts. This should be done in a few more hours.
Adam
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Nov 10 2005 12:46 GMT - Mismatched NFO files
It seem that when the server crashed yesterday, the filesystem has become partly currupt. (It might have been before we arent sure).
However, this means that the current nfos are a little out of line with the rest of the data and posts are showing the wrong nfos.
We are working on a solution for this and will have it fixed asap.
Adam
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Nov 09 2005 07:55 GMT - Posts preview updated to work again
Just updated the posts preview so that it is working again (had the wrong link in it before).
Posts is taking a lot longer than expected due to various other things that have needed to be done and due to moving house / offices.
Sorry
Adam
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Nov 04 2005 20:31 GMT - Multiple days per page in browse
Added a few updates today.
You can now browse by pages, instead of by just day. Use the 'By Page' while browsing for this new feature.
The File Set popups have been altered, and no longer cause a page to be added to the browser history. If your browser doesnt support the new style popup, the old ones will be used instead.
There are a few other smaller updates too, but none really worth mentioning.
Adam
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Oct 12 2005 19:54 GMT - Posts mode in browse
While browsing the data in files (browse) mode, the mixed posts data will not be available for the next few days while the data processing is upgraded for the upcoming release of the new Posts section.
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Oct 09 2005 23:28 GMT - NZB Updates
When the recent database upgrades went live, it broke the occasional nzb file that crosses over multiple days. This is now fixed. The same problem was also occuring for the nzb store which is also fixed. A bunch of debug data has also been removed from the nzb store.
Adam
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Oct 08 2005 17:39 GMT - Posts Update
Posts is progressing nicely. The actual posts interface is still being written, but the data is quite a bit further along.
While in Files mode, you can select to view Posts data using the top right hand dropdown. Integrating the data within this section will allow the fine tuning of how it is formatted and properly categorised.
Please note that a lot of this data is still quite rough, and will be improved upon as a more standard format for it gets developed.
Any feedback on the information, or what info you would want to see welcome.
Have fun
Adam
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Oct 06 2005 19:42 GMT - NZBInfo Updated
Minor updates to the nzb info tool
You can now see date and age of each file.
Download it here or in the My Account -> Addons section
Thanks
Ngindex development team
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Oct 05 2005 21:55 GMT - Images now visible
It seems that the new table code broke some of the image permissions.
This has now been fixed
Sorry about the interuptions to service
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Oct 05 2005 21:34 GMT - Retention Increase Update
Everything seems to being going smoothly (apart from a few minor niggles)
We are aware of the odd problem on the posts sample site, and these will be fixed when we are sure that the main site is upto date and working properly.
Search is currently limited to 30 days of data, but this will be rectified in the next 48 hours or so.
The old data, 30+ days, will be filled in over the next few day, as there is a huge ammount of headers that need to be downloaded (>150Gb).
Thanks
NGindex development team
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Oct 05 2005 04:05 GMT - Retention Increasing
Were currently increasing the retention of the database.
This has required several large changes to the data structure. At the same time, the new posts data structures have been implemented on the live data.
The system is currently back filling the data for 60 days retention on all the groups, which may cause a slightly slower service over the next couple of days.
If anyone encounters any errors on the site, please email support@ngindex.com with details.
We are trying to make this transition as seamless as possible but this may not end up being the case.
Thanks for your paitence
Adam
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Oct 04 2005 21:45 GMT - NFOs now upto date
The nfo decoder is now back upto date, and the nfos on ngindex, and nfo.ngindex.com are now back upto date
Thanks
Adam
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Sep 27 2005 22:44 GMT - NZB Info Tool
Been using a little tool we created to view the contents of a nzb file.
Its now available for download incase anyone feels it might be usefull to them.
Download it here.
Adam
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Sep 23 2005 19:27 GMT - Credit card statements
Just a quick note,
The ngindex credit card payments should show up on your credit card statements as 2CO*NGINDEX.COM.
This is not always the case however, as some are appearing as just 2CO. We apologise for any problems that this might cause, but getting support out of 2checkout.com is next to impossible.
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Sep 22 2005 19:24 GMT - Quicker Updates on data
Weve increased the frequency that database updates occur. Updates will now occur every 2 hours, instead of every 6!
This should allow new files to appear on the site far quicker.
Images are update and processed only every 4 hours at the momentm but may be increased in the future.
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Sep 19 2005 01:10 GMT - Credit card payments
The notification of credit card payments has been broken for the last 3 days, which means any new credit card accounts, or accounts that needed payment may have been inaccessable. We sincerly apologise for any time that specific users have not been able to access the site.
This problem has now been recitfied.
Ngindex Support
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Sep 18 2005 03:46 GMT - .txt and .diz files
This are now downloaded like nfo files are, as requested by a couple of users.
Thanks for the suggestions, keep em coming.
Adam
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Sep 16 2005 06:26 GMT - Server Upgrades
Sorry about the brief downtime, but the web server has had a couple of Gb of ram added to it, and is now noticbly faster!
If anyone has any pages that are taking longer than normal to load, send an email to admin@ngindex.com and we will get it sorted.
Adam
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Sep 15 2005 12:57 GMT - Korean Groups
3 korean groups have been removed as they contain only the occasional complete file and are practically useless. If anyone wants em back, please say so.
Adam
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Sep 15 2005 12:30 GMT - Pending paypal payments
Hi
Ive modifed the payment system to allow temporary access to accounts that had a paypal payment pending.
This should make sure all users that have completed the payment process can fully access the site. If a pending payment fails, then access for that account will be removed.
Hope this helps a couple of users
Adam
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Sep 12 2005 12:25 GMT - Slow Site
Just a warning that ngindex.com will be slower than normal for the next 12 hours.
We have added around 100 new groups and the system is catching up slowly.
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Sep 12 2005 09:32 GMT - More images
Weve increased the maximum image size on the image browser that we download, the images that were missing from sets before are now available (upto 1.5Mb images, if there is need for larger it can be increased again)
Also, there is another 40 or so image groups in the process of being added.
These changes will only affect new images so will start to appear in the coming days
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Sep 08 2005 12:38 GMT - Decoder backend update
The decoder has just had an update to fix an issue regarding a file with articles posted to different servers instead of just the usual single server.
This fix will only affect new servers and will increase the quality and accuracy of the data on the site. Its not feasable to backdate the fix as a full database rebuild takes about 8 days, and about 200-250Gb of data transfer over the net.
If anyone comes across any nzb files with parts that arent found, and you think that the parts should be found send me an example (admin@ngindex.com), and ill look into it.
Thanks
NGindex Development Team
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Aug 30 2005 10:04 GMT - New Login System / Easier subscription
Hello
Weve changed the way subscriptions and the login system works. This means that if you credit card expires or subscripton is accidentally cancelled (or paypal cancels it for you), then you will be presented with the option to renew the payments when the time you have already paid for has expired.
It also mean that anyone with a cancelled account can easily resume using ngindex.com
If you feel that you should have access, but the system wont let you in, please email (admin@ngindex.com) us and we will look into the matter immediatly.
Along with these changes, we have made some general improvements to the my account section of the site, along with the login components regarding incorrect passwords.
Thanks for your paitence in this
Adam
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Aug 07 2005 06:27 GMT - Images back to normal
Image browser thumbnail are back fully working.
They will be a little slower until a new server can be sorted out for them, but they are working now. Changing over to a new server will be transparent and no downtime will be needed.
Thanks
Adam
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Aug 06 2005 07:48 GMT - Image Browser Thumbnail Maintanance
Hello
There has been problems lately with the thumbnail server hanging for some reason that we cant figure out. We are moving the thumbnails onto a different machine, but expect missing thumbnails for a couple of days.
We apologise for the downtime earlier in the week, which was caused by the same machine hanging.
Thanks
Ngindex
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Jul 19 2005 16:55 GMT - New Spam Filters
A new set of spam filtering software has been created which should make some groups that were unusable due to if before usable again.
This new software rids a lot of the spam/splurge that we know about, so if anyone finds more, please email admin@ngindex.com about what group and when its posted and we will improve the filter software some more.
Thanks
NGindex Development Team
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Jul 07 2005 07:14 GMT - Website Upgrades
We are increasing the number of servers we run on, and going live with a large bunch of website changes in the next couple of days.
This may involve the odd 15 mins of downtime.
Sorry for these possible outages, but it will be worth it for you users :)
NGindex Development Team
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Jun 14 2005 14:01 GMT - Whoops! NFO search
During the last set of database update, nfo searching got broken. Its fixed now.
Adam
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Jun 12 2005 15:25 GMT - Data updates
The data updates are now pretty much complete.
Several minor ui changes are present including optional image thumbnail popups, and improved file popup info.
Also the code for grouping files together has been updated. This code will be tweaked over the coming weeks, but we felt that in its current state was better than the old code so decided to let people use it.
It will take a few days for images to all be updated and thumbnailed, and missing images will be available soon.
Thanks for your patience.
NGindex development team
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Jun 09 2005 13:09 GMT - Slow Site
The site will be slighly slower than normal over the next 24-48 hours and the data may drop behind due to various database maintanance and upgrades that are happening.
These upgrades will result in an overall fast site, and the data being a lot more accurate and complete.
Thanks for you paitence
NGindex Development Team
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Jun 05 2005 09:31 GMT - Downloadable NFOs
You can now click the link to download nfos as requested in the forums.
Also updated are several small bits, including viewing nfos for your favourite groups.
NGindex development team
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May 27 2005 11:02 GMT - NFO Section Updated
Weve updated the NFO section of the site.
You can now browse nfos by category properly with the new category tree. Nfo search has also been improved.
Also in this update, weve changed, fixed or updated the following:
- NZB Store
- Image Zips
- More info popups on various places where they are usefull
- Ability to turn the info popups on and off using dropdown menus
- Adding of new groups now automated and should actually work now. Visit it here
- More items added to the knoweledge base
- NFO images now have links in them
- More stuff that i cant remember now
Thanks for your support
NGindex Development Team
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May 20 2005 08:04 GMT - Help System
Weve create a new help, support and faq system.
You can access this under the help section of the site.
You can now create support tickets when you require help on the site. This is the prefered method of contacting us, and most emails to us will automatically be turned into support tickets from now on anyway.
Also new are the discussion forums. Feel free to use as you wish.
The knoweledge base is a bit thin on the ground information wise, but were adding to it in the following weeks. If you have any suggestions of things that should go into this, please email kb@ngindex.com with suggestions.
Thanks
NGindex Development Team
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May 13 2005 11:40 GMT - Gateway Error
This has been fixed
Thanks
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Apr 28 2005 06:15 GMT - Back to normal
Hopefully, everything is now fixed and soon the indexes will be caught up with the last 2 weeks images.
Sorry for the recent troubles
Ngindex Development Team
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Apr 27 2005 05:48 GMT - Current Status Part 2
All the main data is now back up and running as normal. Were still mising nfo and image files, but they will be back as soon as we can solve the problem the crash caused.
Basically, the main filesystem on the server decided to die quite horribly taking large chunks of the data and various pieces of code with it. We have recovered a large proportion of this data so things are almost back up and running again.
Thanks
Ngindex
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Apr 24 2005 18:13 GMT - Current Status
We are currently missing all nfo and image files, along with grouped data for about 8 days of data. Also we are missing some of the group categories.
Anything other than this that is missing please email to admin@ngindex.com with details so we can ensure everything is working soon.
thanks
Ngindex development team
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Apr 24 2005 18:11 GMT - Sorry to all users
We have had a large hardware failure on our main server and our backup server has proved useless. Due to this we have had around 36 hours with the site offline. Currently the site is back up and running but has chunks of data missing, and is a couple of days behind in processing data. We are working to getting the site back upto 100% functionality but this is taking quite a while and there are only so many hours in a day we can work. Please hang on while we pick up the pieces of a complete server meltdown and get things working again.
Full service should be restored withing the next 24 hours hopefully.
Sorry for the problems
Ngindex development team
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Apr 23 2005 09:39 GMT - Images and Downtime
Due to some recent server problems, we have experienced the loss of the entire image database. We apologise for the problems and degredation in service this causes, however, new images will appear over the next few days so hold tight.
This problem has also caused several hours downtime while repairs to the database and filestore were made.
Thanks
Ngindex Development Team
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Apr 14 2005 18:16 GMT - NZB's
There was a minor problem with nzb files having no segments in them since yesterday. This has now been fixed. (Missed a file in the update).
NGindex Development team.
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Apr 12 2005 11:01 GMT - Credit Card Payments
Payent by credit card for new account is now activated.
If you want to transfer your payments over to credit card payments, send an email to admin@ngindex.com containing your username and we will inform you how to transfer the account.
Unfortunatly, due to the way the credit card payment system works, there will no-longer be a 5 day free trial.
We are also looking at creating a referals system if people are interested, involving getting free months on your account for refering other people to ngindex.
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Apr 12 2005 10:57 GMT - Site Updates
At last!! Weve had time to finnish various front end updates.
While browsing the site data, there are now tooltip popups for the post info, and also mini-nfo tooltips when moving the mouse over a nfo link. We have found these pretty usefull in testing, hope you lot do too!
There are more categories for groups now, in a tree like format too.
If needed, we can set the tooltips as a preference if some people dont want them.
More coming soon
NGindex development team
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Feb 05 2005 21:27 GMT - Slow Searches
It seems that at certain times of day, search is handling a huge load and searches are taking upwards of a minute to finnish. We are currently working on a solution to this problem, but it sould take some sime. Sorry for the inconvienice of the slow searches. When the updates are done, the search will also integrate nfo, raw and grouped into one more usefull search.
Also upcoming...
Payments by credit card as well as paypal
Category tree covering > 70 categorys instead of just the base 7
Several smaller interface fixes and updates
New grouping engine (this will eventually be finnished but its extremely complex and takes a long time to write)
If you have any comments and suggestiong for improvements to the site, feel free to email us at admin@ngindex.com and we will seriously consider implementing any suggestions made.
Thanks for your custom
The ngindex development team
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Dec 30 2004 09:40 GMT - Help For Site / NZB Info
Hello
Weve been really busy over xmas, so sorry for the delays in replying to emails, all will be replied to by the end of today.
The site is getting a completly new help system which should provide all the information which you could need. However, this isnt complete yet so for the current time, we have create a nzb information page with links to software and tutorials on those pieces of software.
http://www.ngindex.com/nzbinfo.php
Thanks
NGindex Development Team
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Nov 30 2004 08:29 GMT - DNS Problems
It seems that our dns server has been having problems and taking a long time to resolve the internal proxying used within the site. This was making certain pages to take a long while to load (such as nzb files and images). This problem has now been fixed and everything should be back to normal.
Adam
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Nov 24 2004 13:11 GMT - Some More Groups
Just to let you know, weve added another 20 or so smaller groups to the site.
Thanks
NGindex dev team
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Nov 14 2004 09:53 GMT - New Newsgroups
Weve added a whole bunch of new newsgroups to ngindex!
Some of the ones added are as follows:
alt.binaries.dvd9
alt.binaries.dvd.midnightmovies
alt.binaries.dvd.music
alt.binaries.hdtv
alt.binaries.dvd.french
alt.binaries.cores
alt.binaries.dvd.image
alt.binaries.dvd.german
alt.binaries.dvdrs
Plus many more
These groups will populate with data over the next few days.
Thanks
NGindex development Team
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Nov 09 2004 13:43 GMT - NZB Store, Images Zip and More
Weve just launched a new set of changes for ngindex.
New Naviagtion
While using browse mode, there are 2 new dropdown combo boxes. The first of these dropdowns allow the quick changindex of you current group. The other allows changing of the view style of the data you are viewing. Within this dropdown you can also enable/disable several extra features on the data listing such and a user definable filter, nzb store, and image zips. On the right dropdown, you can select different view modes for different purposes. More of these should be added as required in the future. For raw data, the 'Raw - By Author' mode give a nice list of all files in that group, and 'Grouped - Filtered' gives a quick overview.
Image Zips
This allows you, when browsing the image thumbnails, to store the selected images in a zip file for later download. To enable this feature use the right hand dropdown, and select Image Thumbs mode. When in thumbnail mode, the dropdown option 'Show/Hide -> Image Zips' will emable the zip mode. Check the images you wish to store, select a zip no, and press store to save those images. Within 'My Account -> Image Zips', you can edit and download the zips. This is a beta feature at the moment, and feedback or bugs should be emailed to admin@ngindex.com.
NZB Store
This works the same as image zips but got grouping nzb files together. When in a grouped or raw mode, use the 'Show/Hide -> NZB Store' option. The nzb files you select will be grouped together to allow you to download one file instead of many. 'My Account -> NZB Store' is used to edit the contents of these stores.
New Default Skin
The default skin has now been set to the Minimal Blue skin. If you want the old style skin back please use the 'My Account -> Select Skin' option.
Content Reporting
There is now the ability to report images which are deemed unacceptable content and have them removed from the site. This reporting can also be used to remove copyright images and other illegal images. There has been a recent set of off topic pornography posted to newsgroups, and we have illiminted this from our database.
Other New things
There have been a lot of tidying up of various pages and new small features that are too numerous to mention indivdually too. NFO search is now working full, with highlighting of the searched term in the nfo. Url links on nfos will be following soon. There have also been several
Thanks
NGindex development team
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Nov 03 2004 09:21 GMT - NZB Fixes
Its recently come to our attention that nzb files have had a few wiered problems lately. The & symbol was not being translated to a html entity, which was confusing several clients.
This has now been fixed. If anyone has a nzb file that isnt working properly, please email me at admin@ngindex.com so i can get it fixed.
Thanks
Adam
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Oct 21 2004 17:30 GMT - More Skin Things
The minimal skin has had a large update, its available in serveral different colours, and all knows problems have been fixed.
Enjoy
NGindex Development Team
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Oct 20 2004 14:28 GMT - Minimal Skin
Weve launched a beta version of the new minimalist skin. You can select this skin using the 'My Account' -> 'Select Skin' option.
There are a few flaws with the skin at the moment, but its usable but has a few minor graphical glitches. It only been tested in Mozilla Firefox PR 1, but uses standard html and css so should work with Internet Explorer too.
More color variations on this skin and a few fixes will be available soon.
Thanks
NGindex development team
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Oct 15 2004 16:09 GMT - File Survailance
File survailance is now finished. Basically, its a daily automated search, that emails you the results. Some of the email can be fairly large depending on the searches you use.
To use file survailance, go to 'My Account', the the 'File Survailance' option on the menu on the left.
Enjoy the new feature.
Adam
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Oct 15 2004 13:36 GMT - Site Changes
Weve just added a couple of new features.
Extra sort option - Author + Subject while browsing data.
When browsing groups, only display first 30 until show all is pressed.
More coming soon.
Adam
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Oct 08 2004 14:52 GMT - Coming Soon!
Just a teaser for some of the new features that should be launched soon:
Reporting and removal of images with obscene content.
Our policy is we do not wish to have our site containing pornography, but unfortunatly have no way of filtering the small ammount of pornographic content on our site. Weve implemented an image report and removal system to remove any content that people would like removed for obscenity or legal reasons.
New Grouping Engine
On one of our test servers, we have a completly new grouping system being written. Development has been ongoing for a while on this but its approaching comletions. You can expect more accurate grouping, and also less spam and text content.
Downloading of multiple nzb files at one
We have a nzb store system where you can select a large ammount of file or group nzb files to be combined into one and downloaded at a later date. There is also a link on the bottom of a page to download a nzb containing all of the checked files and groups on that page.
Imageless Skin
A cut down skin with no images and lower bandwidth requirements.
File Survailance
File survailance does a daily search on what you specify. The results of the searches are emailed to you daily, and stored on our server as web pages. This is ideal for regulary searching for the same thing.
All of these features are either almost finished or in public beta.
Thanks
Adam
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Oct 08 2004 14:44 GMT - Grouping Problems
As many of you have probably noticed, grouping has been a bit wiered lately and all the totals were wrong. Weve fixed the problems but its required a bit of database manipulation and a complete regroup of all the data.
We apologise for the interuptions to service.
Adam
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Oct 07 2004 14:04 GMT - Skin System
The new skin system has been implemented.
To change your skin, log in and goto My Account -> Select Skin.
At the moment the skin selection is limited to different color schemes of the current skin but expect more skins to become available in the future.
Thanks
Adam
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Oct 07 2004 13:44 GMT - Recent Login Problems
We apologise for the recent login problems this afternoon. We rolled out a new skin system, which due to unforseen cookie problems, broke logging in.
This has been fixed now, and the skin system will be enabled in the next few days.
Thanks
Adam
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Oct 02 2004 11:38 GMT - Server Move and Bug fixes
Finally we have completed a new round of code updates, moved to a bigger and better server and squished some more bugs.
Bug fixed
Image Browsing enhancments
Nfo search Fixed.
Image downloading re-enabled (Give it time to catch up)
New features
Nfo's now displayed as images (raw text still available see link at the top of each nfo)
File Survailance is now fully working and will even email you the results !!
Report any problems to admin@ngindex.com.
Thanks for your support
The ngindex team.
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Apr 19 2004 15:22 GMT - Site update
Welcome to the second incarnation of Ngindex.com. As you may have noticed there has be a massive site wide update recently. Many things have changed or been enhanced to provide a faster, more reliable and improved service.
Things that have changed
New servers.
Lot’s annoying of bugs fixed.
Image browsing (Click on the image link at the top of any brows page to view images in that group).
Nfo’s now integrated with ngindex.com
Better Nfo font (See the add-ons section in the My account section).
New search bar integration with Mozilla based browsers (See the add-ons section in the My account section).
New skin.
Improved grouping.
Indexing Speed improvements.
And much more!!!
Hope you like the improvements
Thanks for your support
The ngindex.com Team
Please send problem, question, suggestion and praise to Support@ngindex.com
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Feb 13 2004 17:39 GMT - nbz download format
All posts/files can now be accessed using the nbz file format.
This is an xml based file format which allows various programs to download the files from your newsserver.
It works basically the same as the ngindex.com file downloaded, except it supported by several existing news readers.
Current services / programs which support the nbz file format are:
123NewZ - http://www.123newz.net
Easynews - http://members.easynews.com/global/nzb.html
Newspro 3.72 - http://www.usenetopia.com
Newsbin Pro 4.3b2 - http://forums.newsbin.com/viewtopic.php?t=8013 (registered newsbin members only)
NewsLeecher v1.0b9 - http://www.newsleecher.com
Slicknews v1.10 - http://slicknews.com
nget - http://nget.sourceforge.net (you'll need a patch which you can get from http://forum.newzbin.com/viewtopic.php?t=520)
Thanks for you support
Adam
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Feb 12 2004 13:47 GMT - Interface update
The long over due ability allowing cookie authentication has been implemented. Allowing users assess to the site with out the need to log-on every time.
Just select the time out in the dropdown box and you will remain logged in on that PC for that length of time. Warning not for use on public computer as it will allow unauthorized access to your account !!!
Any other improvements suggestions drop a post in the forums your input would be much appreciated.
Thanks the ngindex team
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Feb 03 2004 21:15 GMT - Download client beta 2
The download client has been updated to beta 2.
This should fix most of the bugs that have been reported to us. There are still a few minor bugs existing that we are aware of but these dont affect downloading.
If you have any problems or find a bug please post about it in the forum.
The client can be downloaded from here
Help available here or in the forums
Thanks
The ngindex.com team
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Jan 26 2004 19:31 GMT - Datafeed Problems
We have bee experiencing datafeed problems along with the recent server problems. This means that the data within ngindex.com's database is now 48 hours out of date.
The datafeed is now back to normal and we should be cought up with the current data within the next 12 hours or so.
Sorry for the recent problems.
Thanks
Adam
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Jan 25 2004 11:39 GMT - Downtime
Server downtime caused by a router outage at our hosting provider took the site down for 5 hours today.
We apologise for this downtime.
Thanks
The ngindex.com support team
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Nov 30 2003 20:54 GMT - Version 0.1b of the ngindex.com's binary newsreader is released.
Get it Here
Help available here or in the forums.
This client is a binary newsreader that works along side ngindex.com allowing you easy access to your Usenet providers' content.
Warning this is a Beta and could contain bugs pleas help development report bugs in the forums.
Ngindex.com hosts no illegal files this client is useless without an account on a Usenet server. This software is proved as freeware and as is ngindex.com accepts no responsibility for damage caused by its use or the misuse. Ngindex.com only indexes the headers of file and has no way to verify the decoded contents of the files this client will down load at your request from your news server, You have been warned !!!.
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Nov 30 2003 16:35 GMT - File Survailance Beta is Live!
Ive eventually finnished the beta of the file survailance section of the site.
Any bugs you find on this, and any suggestions on improving this feature, or the site in general, please post in the support forum.
You can find it in 'My Account', under survailance.
The process runs at 4am and 4pm GMT time, so your results will only be updated at these times.
There is currently no support for emailing the results, as i though it better to activate the main section, and tag this bit on later.
Thanks
Adam
adam@ngindex.com
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Oct 27 2003 21:23 GMT - File survailance and download client beta testing!
If anyone is interested in beta testing the file survailance and download client then send an email to adam@ngindex.com and well get you set up with a beta account.
(Please note : you must be an active ngindex.com subscriber to participate)
Thanks
Adam Clarke
adam@ngindex.com
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Oct 24 2003 11:01 GMT - Nfo problems
As some of you may have noticed, weve recently had a problem with posts pointing to the wrong nfo files.
This problem has now been fixed.
Thanks
Adam Clarke
adam@ngindex.com
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Oct 17 2003 20:09 GMT - Site update !!
Various bug fixes and improvements have been rolled out today Including :-
Ability to select output style in search mode.
Better layout of Browse mode.
Various grouping improvements.
Several Bug fixes.
Hope you like it, The ngindex team.
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Sep 27 2003 21:22 GMT - Free Search and Browse for specific group
We've added a trial feature allowing you to browse and search on a specific group.
The group for the trial is selected from the largest 30 groups daily.
Have a play with site functionality before signing up for your 15 day free trial!
Thanks
Adam Clarke
adam@ngindex.com
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Sep 23 2003 20:13 GMT - New Search Features
We have now added a few more options to the search section of the site.
You can now:
Remove duplicate posts
Change the format of the output to one of out predefined formats, or define your own
Sort both ascending and descending on all columns
More fields to display incliding group, short group and author.
Thanks
Adam Clarke
adam@ngindex.com
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Sep 22 2003 06:42 GMT - Grouping imporvements - database update finished
The grouping improvements are now completely finished.
The database is now back to normal.
Thanks for your patience
Adam Clarke
adam@ngindex.com
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Sep 22 2003 00:09 GMT - Grouping imporvements
We have made so major improvement to out grouping engine. The grouped post mode will now be more accurate than ever before at determining post groups.
Unfortunatly, this means the we have to rebuild our entire grouped post database.
This process will unfortuanly make the grouped data incomplete for the next few hours.
All data should be back to normal soon.
Thanks
Adam Clarke
adam@ngindex.com
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Sep 21 2003 11:21 GMT - New pricing structure
We have now introduced a new flexible pricing structure.
The new methods to pay are monthly, quarterly and yearly.
Monthly - $2.95 per month
Quarterly - $7.95 every 3 months, equivalent of $2.65 a month
Yearly - $29.95 per year, equivalent of $2.49 a month
Thanks for you support
Tosh Brown
Tosh@ngindex.com
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Sep 21 2003 11:20 GMT - New View Added - Browse Raw
Well! Our development team have been at it again and have now added the ability to browse groups and search using a 'Raw' format. This allows you to bypass all grouping and record post processing to view the actual files on your server!
Look out for more great features like this coming shortly!
Tosh Brown
Tosh@ngindex.com
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Sep 20 2003 13:53 GMT - Forum up and running
The forum is now up and running. Take a look http://forum.ngindex.com.
Hope you enjoy it!!
Tosh Brown.
Tosh@ngindex.com
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