why is ports web page so far out of date

[Mark Felder]

On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:08:15 -0500, Fbsd8 <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:

> I can not get current version of the ports system.
> The ports web page http://www.freebsd.org/ports/
> is almost 2 years out of date. Says the port I am interested in is at  
> 1.7 version when just 2 weeks ago it was at 2.2. Portsnap is also messed  
> up showing the 1.7 version.
>
>

I'm not sure what the status of this system is, but I'd recommend you use  
the official unofficial Freshports.org