Human effort

Human effort

Yes, that was an utterly stupid change: someone imbued with "social" karma thought that tags were somehow better than categories and replaced them. From that point on, Freshmeat was not even good for trove searches (e.g. to look at programming language popularity).

And, as some other commenters said above, the step of requesting human approval was unneeded and uncalled for. Modern package managers (PyPI, npm) work completely without human intervention: you want to publish a package, you just press a button. Removing human approval would have been an improvement (no more waiting for updates) and would have lowered operating costs. Contrast this automated approach with the walled garden of iOS apps which require human approval; on npm we are all adults.

Please, please someone create an automated version of FreshMeat (libre software only) which doesn't suck.