Freshmeat stopped being useful when they converted the well-organized and useful software trove into a worthless pile of tag garbage, and deleted a third of the information in the process.
Before, it was possible to find, for example, a TUI email client written in perl with a BSD license, thanks to the ability to drill down into the trove. After the redesign, it was goddamn near impossible to find anything -- especially things with specific licenses.
I, and just about everyone I know who used it, stopped using it not long after they started focusing on toy web programming more than information curation. I'm sad they mismanaged it to death, but I'm not going to miss it in its terminal state.
I usually updated the firebird page before the big update but it bacame useless and painfull to the the page updates after the redesign
For example befora i could do releases for beta and stable versions but after i had just kind of worthless tags
also i had svn branches for each kind of relases
Before, it was possible to find, for example, a TUI email client written in perl with a BSD license, thanks to the ability to drill down into the trove. After the redesign, it was goddamn near impossible to find anything -- especially things with specific licenses.
I, and just about everyone I know who used it, stopped using it not long after they started focusing on toy web programming more than information curation. I'm sad they mismanaged it to death, but I'm not going to miss it in its terminal state.