UPDATE: Just checked and subscene is now down for me

So… what’re your guys favorite alternatives?

The ones I’m aware of but haven’t used much are:

UPDATE 2: needed subs for an ep of a moderately popular crime procedural show that aired 4 days ago on a regular tv channel, so updated to note experience with them. tested in librewolf on vpn:

  • english-subtitles (dot) org : had latest subs, no issues downloading.
  • subdl (dot) com : site was realy fast compared to some of the others. had latest subs, no issues downloading. that said, it had creditted the uploaders from subscene so it was easy to see that the subs were just copied from there. i probably need to retest this stuff again in with something else in a few days to see which sites are getting new uploads that arent just copied from subscene.
  • my-subs (dot) co : did NOT had subs for latest ep. did have subs for previous ep. no issues downloading.
  • podnapisi (dot) net : had some weird css fuckup on the search results (i use always https mode so maybe realted to that?). but they had latest subs and no issues downloading.
  • subtitlecat (dot) com : mostly for translations. Otherwise I generally avoid this one since I prefer my subs to be spot-on. had latest ep, no issues downloadig.
  • yifysubtitles (dot) me : they did not even have current season of the show. if they did, then there search sucks balls so hard you might get a ruptured testicle.
  • opensubtitles (dot) org : update: these guys use fucking google fucking recaptcha which has been extremely fucking assholish in firefox/librewolf lately especially when on vpn (im talking you can submit 15+ correct and it still say you wrong and dont let you pass). so they can fuck right off my list until they decide to switch to literally anything else besides recaptcha. seriously guys how can you call yourselves “open” anything and using fucking google recaptcha. you can do better than this.

Happy to hear complaints on any to avoid too.

edit: for any curious why, I found this is from an older thread from before the final closing announcement:

24 February 2024

Yesterday, we received unfortunate news from one of our trusted admins stating that the owner of the site intends to shut it down due to insufficient revenue.

Where I can find Arabic subtitles??

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OK going through the comments seems like something fishy is going on. lots of people willing to take it over and no answer to why it has to be shut down

@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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Could be a legal issue

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If it was me I’d be posting whatever they sent me to shut down

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Kowalski, analysis

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well, also it was not long ago with a short-time frame…

If it all turns out to be a prank / main account was hacked / etc, great … but could see someone who expects a lot of negative feedback or even somene who have a lot going on offline not really bothering to look at commentss

plus we all knw silent legal / state presure is a thing… rarbg, kat, and many others had people willing to take over but ithink they got legal pressure to stop.

my plan is just have a few glasses of boubron and relax. we are hydra and all that lol

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Yeah I agree but why hide it if legal pressure unless they are threatening him but still just seems weird or like some sort of power move.

Also there is a dump of all the sub’s on there from 2 months ago linked in the comments there so atleast we can grab that and redistribute without having to restart

HAIL HYDRA!

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Looks like I was wrong…

this is from an older thread before the final closing announcement:

24 February 2024

Yesterday, we received unfortunate news from one of our trusted admins stating that the owner of the site intends to shut it down due to insufficient revenue.

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OK so its a power move IMO because he could easily sell it to someone else or accept the many offers of covering it for him.

A comment in that thread said subdl has all subscene uploads now as well so looks like thatll be the place

Well that sucks, subscene was my goto for movies but at least for tv there’s still

https://www.addic7ed.com/

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The-Eye has already backed up all of Subscene into a torrent. Only 90GB.

Download the backup and never need to find subs (for older content) again

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Now how do I feed that into Bazaar🤔

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I too would like to know, just finished getting it and I’m like “now what?”

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fucking nice… is that on their public eu domain? having trouble finding it but probably looking in the wrong places

anyone feels like pm my dumbass the loc or give a hint, i’d appreciate it

edit: also tried dht (qbittorrent, solidtorrents) but no joy there either

edit2: to fellow drunken fools:

is that on their public eu domain?

the ansqer is ‘yes’. See: /public/Random/torrents

edit3: had a few drinks and forgot to add the one i got from eu domain… brought qbit up again after i sobered up and it still had the dht search open and so I figured why not and retried it… and now it was showing up there too (via bt4g dot org). go figure

now i just need to free up enough space to acually dl it (it has things packaged as multiple ~8GB .7z files, so anybody who was hping to pick-and-choose based on what you want subs for, sorry to disappoint; gotta dl whole thing and extract to do that … so really you need quite a bit more than 90gb if you account for the archives + whatever size of extracted files is)

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👉👈 … We might even meet up, in the peerlist

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Only 90GB.

What a time to be alive.

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Right? I remember being absolutely mind blown away by a 2gb SD card. Nowadays I pickup a 32gb microSD for $3 every time I got to Micro Center

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I remember when people on Twitter lost their minds when somebody posted a picture of a 1 TB MicroSD they got for their Steam Deck

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I’ve got like, 8 of the magnet part trays from going through checkout like that. So handy to have.

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I remember putting a 2GB sd card in my Palm Pilot LifeDrive and filled it with avi files. Watched the Battlestar Galactica reboot that way!

I also watched the Battlestar Galactica reboot via AVI files. Not on a Palm, tho.

On iPod color transcoded in handbrake.

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Sad news if true. Subscene had a few very consistent and committed uploaders for Korean subtitles that would share community subtitles from Cineaste, in addition to the retail stuff. For that reason I always found it to be one of the best overall subtitle sites. Rarely did I need to go elsewhere.

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Sad news for us deafys. Thanks for all the alts though, OP 😊

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I’m late to the party but damn that’s a kick to the balls. For subdl I noticed there’s also an org version, do you happen to know if they’re related to each other?

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