Nzbgeek and nzbplanet are good. From my experience these 2 have very similar quality.

Drunkenslug is a lot harder to get into but it does find items the other two don’t have on occasion. On the downside, drunkenslug lacks a one time subscription and the other two have a one time subscription. It does however have a free tier so you can probably be fine still using it as a last resort to try finding harder to get content.

But the robot has to run windows vista

Of course it’s Ohio!

My favorite part is guessing what they do that results in the bug!

Yep OAuth 2.0. Changes are already merged, just waiting for next major release.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2731

Next major version will support OAuth. If you wait till then there is probably providers that can do that maybe.

Lock down registrations so approval is needed and create your own service that does the invite stuff and call the Lemmy api to register the user / approvd them.

This blog post talks about the image proxying mode here

It basically downloads the pictures temporarily. This wouldn’t account for your existing ones. Assuming you are on one of the most recent versions, you should be able to lookup and delete images on the admin UI as well, but image proxying would only apply to new content.

I didn’t see your Lemmy config much but have you looked at setting in Lemmy for pictrs?

image_mode: "ProxyAllImages"

This stores images temporarily on your pictrs instance, I am sitting at 8GB since this feature came out.