I have to admit that I am going to drop freshmeat.net from my news
feeds … for now.  I am really disappointed about this. 
From people not familiar with Freshmeat.net, it is a great resource to tracking Open Source projects, and updates to those projects.

I have relied on the Freshmeat
RSS news feeds for years now to learn about what is going on out in the
Open Source world.  It has been a tremendous resource for me to
learn about new projects, and even some old projects.  The feed,
although it is high-volume, contained a brief entry each time a project
was updated.

A few months ago (or less) they did a major change to their RSS feed
… and it’s for the worse, IMHO.  With the old feed, each entry
was the name of the project and a short description … not more than a
few words.  The new feed is a huge paragraph of text, along with
images!  My news aggregator is now overwhelmed with a flood of
constant paragraphs … more than I could ever hope to read! 
Bummer.

I contacted Freshmeat, and they indicated they are going to fix this
… but it’s taking too long.  I’ll have to drop the feed for now,
and check back to see when they fix it.  I’m not sure what they
were thinking when they did this … anyone who tracked the volume
would know that it’s too much to see and/or read …