It’s good. I hadn’t used Usenet until last year. You need a provider and an indexer. The provider is like an ISP that gives you access to Usenet. The indexer is like a search engine that tells you where in Usenet you can find this or that.

It works very well for new content with the arr stack. They do take things down via DMCA, but by the time things are taken down, your arr stack has grabbed what it needed. And it even though things are taken down, most of the content is still available.

You can use Usenet and torrent together in your arr stack as redundant sources.