Comment by BrenBarn

> if i've got any of the above wrong please just say, rather than downvote :D

Maybe it's not necessarily that any of those are wrong per se as that they just don't address several other important issues raised in the article, such as (copied from headings in the article):

* Needs constant cleanup

* Database grows out of control

* Element X is now recommended as the new and better client. It is not.

* Calls are not backward compatible

Also saying the info is "outdated" because a bug was fixed two weeks ago (and you're not even sure if it made it into a built yet!) seems pretty disingenuous. More generally, I think the timeline on which info becomes "outdated" is maybe different for you than for actual users. Actual users expect to install it and have everything work. If there are major bugs, protocol changes, and app-throwaway-and-rewrites happening on a timescale of 2-3 years, that's still too fast for most people to consider their info outdated. If everything were going swimmingly with none of these problems for like 5 years, then yeah, okay, but that's not the situation.