I really think that a forum and repositroy together is the best way to draw and keep people, one-stop shopping if you will.
The ironworks forum and Ziroc are great. But, we are the smallest part of this site, and I've always thught a bigger forum with subforums would be nice. Imagine, a forum just for discussin of graphics or the GPDL
The trouble that I keep running into is the almighty dollar. There are a lot of free services out there. For example, I found a great site for hosting forums, but it's just a forum. As far as webhosting, there is nothing great for free. There's not even anything good. Most places make yahoo!groups look like the promised land. (Every email account I have offers better features than any webhosting sites I've found.)
Now, if I had more money, i.e. any to spend on webhosting, it's a different story
The best I can do right now is my
http://dungeoncraft.beplaced.com website which allows individual files to be up to about 1.85 MB with about 50 MB or so of total storage *maybe it's 100 MB, can't quite remember at the moment).
By the by, I can and would love to host other people's stuff there as well. People can just email the files and I'll put them up.
-manikus