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

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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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[–] reddthat@reddthat.com 51 points 6 months ago (12 children)

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

[–] drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] reddthat@reddthat.com 8 points 6 months ago

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

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