Ask HN:What happened to Download sites?
SwellJoe: They are useless vestiges of an age in which search didn't work, and maintaining a website for a project or product (and handling the bandwidth demands that entails) was harder than it is now.They are the wrong tool for the job on the modern web, and they were never very good at it even when they did provide a tiny bit of value.  In short, they're a waste of space.