After nearly 6 years (including the stint when we were called nmatrix.co.za) of maintaining the site, it’s time to ask for help.

Within the last 2 years I’ve started a new job which is proving to be exceptionally time consuming and demanding, I guess as jobs should be, which has led to a neglect to the site.

I’m sure you’ve noticed recent and extended downtime as well as the severe lack of content being posted to the site.

I simply cannot keep up with the Usenet scene as I’ve used to, including having the latest regex, indexing new groups and making sure the API is running smoothly. That means the site has two options:

Get an additional human, or humans onboard to help out with general site development Shutdown the site

Obviously the second option is far from ideal and I’d hate to see almost 6 years of work and building up a community around the site go to waste, but I’d prefer to have it shutdown as opposed to see it die slowly as it’s currently doing. While I figure this all out I’ve closed registrations as well as disabled any kind of upgrade options. It would suck having to pay for a membership only to see it gone in a few months.

If the site were to shutdown, it would be at the end of October 2018.

Onto (hopefully) a more positive outlook, it’s time to get some fresh eyes on the code and get things up and running properly again. We’re a few revisions behind on Newznab’s code and very far behind on any kind of regex to create releases. Potentially hardware too.

If you’re interested in helping out you’d need some experience with:

Regex creation and review

PHP

MySQL

Ubuntu Server

Sphinx (not necessary but beneficial)

SVN

That should cover the basics, there’s probably a lot more to do than just this. I’ve said from the beginning, I’m a hardware guy, not a software guy, so this project has been a pretty ambitious one.

Drop me a line below if you’re interested in helping out.

Regardless of the outcome, I’ll post an update soon.