I kinda agree. IIRC, they were originally built for downloading from newsgroups, which does need a lot of automation. Personally, I do find Sonarr useful, so I don’t have to manually keep track of when new episodes come out. Before Sonarr, I used to use a tool that was configured with YAML or something, forgot what it was. I do run an *arr stack now because I have a multi-member household, and they don’t want to go searching for stuff on trackers, so they just use Overseerr.
hehe they’re clearly products of their times/ecosystems. I dont judge people for using them. I just shake my head at what people are willing to tolerate when there are far easier mechanisms to find and download. I havent had to go outside of a single tracker atm for my uses so that might be part of it.
It doesn’t fit your use case then. I check missing TV episodes once a week and i never interact with it outside of that. Once you get then set up it’s way more about organization than anything else.
It doesn’t fit most peoples usecases. Its why they’re only used by techies. I perfectly understand the utility they provide. Im simply rejecting the premise that such utility needs to be anywhere near as complicated as those systems are to setup
I kinda agree. IIRC, they were originally built for downloading from newsgroups, which does need a lot of automation. Personally, I do find Sonarr useful, so I don’t have to manually keep track of when new episodes come out. Before Sonarr, I used to use a tool that was configured with YAML or something, forgot what it was. I do run an *arr stack now because I have a multi-member household, and they don’t want to go searching for stuff on trackers, so they just use Overseerr.
hehe they’re clearly products of their times/ecosystems. I dont judge people for using them. I just shake my head at what people are willing to tolerate when there are far easier mechanisms to find and download. I havent had to go outside of a single tracker atm for my uses so that might be part of it.
It doesn’t fit your use case then. I check missing TV episodes once a week and i never interact with it outside of that. Once you get then set up it’s way more about organization than anything else.
It doesn’t fit most peoples usecases. Its why they’re only used by techies. I perfectly understand the utility they provide. Im simply rejecting the premise that such utility needs to be anywhere near as complicated as those systems are to setup