Originally Posted by Hambil
The exception does not make the rule. I'm not saying don't make a way to search outdated mods, I'm saying don't make it the default.
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The issue, however, is that "hasn't been updated in a week/month/6 months/a year" doesn't necessarily mean that it's OUTdated - just that it hasn't been updated in the last X time period. A mod only becomes "outdated" when it becomes "out of date", usually in reference to its code no longer working with the current API. A piece of code can go weeks, months, even a year or more without an update, if a) it is coded well, and b) the API that it hooks into either does not change, or changes little, or otherwise does not break the mod.
If it ain't broken, it ain't outdated. As such, older addons can be 100% viable as a user solution, as long as it still works, regardless of that last date it was updated.