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mbruel / ngPost

Command Line (or minimalist GUI) usenet poster for binaries developped in C++/QT designed to be as fast as possible and offer all the main features to post data easily and safely. Releases for Linux, Windows and MacOS are available.
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How does one add posts to categories on indexers? #188

Closed King-0f-Hero closed 9 months ago

King-0f-Hero commented 9 months ago

Excuse my lack of knowledge - I'm just starting out posting to Usenet and I've got a question to which I can't find an answer literally anywhere across websites, forums, subreddits and the indexers themselves and so I hoped to maybe get an answer here. My problem is that I was posting several movies (of course only open-source ones...) to alt.binaries.boneless and can't figure out how categories on indexers work. How and who (people or algorithms) selects which posts end up in which categories?

With tests I did beforehand with ngPost (with a trailer for one of these movies for a quicker upload to test out several settings) only one of them ended up in the intended subcategory of movies (only on one of the indexers I use - namely drunkenslug) maybe because I named them correspondingly ("3D" was included in the Title and file name so it ended up in the Movies>3D category) but I've named all the other tests and actual posts/uploads similarly. And everything else I've tried (even by posting to alt.binaries.3d and alt.binaries.movies) ended up in other categories like TV>Other. I want to make it easier to find these posts for other people who are searching for this specific kind of content and like I said - I couldn't find any resources or information about this topic out there. So can somebody here help me or at least point me to somewhere where I could educate myself further on this topic?

mbruel commented 9 months ago

This is not a question about ngPost... ask on other forums or communities. please not here!