One tiny little problem that no one may have noticed. Bandwidth and webspace.
Believe me, I used to run a theme site, themes are big. Add to that that they're getting far bigger still. A few dozen themes will quickly overload that 250 mb server.
Due to the nature of such a site it automatically becomes high-traffic as you have the same mass of people returning very often. They're also gonna download many themes... many large themes.
I was lucky enough to have a friend who had a friend in a high place and so bandwidth and web space were free and unlimited. You should also know why versiontracker started with tons of ad space and VT pro. You simply can't keep something popular up for a long period of time without it funding itself.
btw, one way to help with the bandwidth and space problem would be to link to the files on the theme maker's server. Then again some people would et burned due to the massive amounts of downloads from their site.
Believe me, I used to run a theme site, themes are big. Add to that that they're getting far bigger still. A few dozen themes will quickly overload that 250 mb server.
Due to the nature of such a site it automatically becomes high-traffic as you have the same mass of people returning very often. They're also gonna download many themes... many large themes.
I was lucky enough to have a friend who had a friend in a high place and so bandwidth and web space were free and unlimited. You should also know why versiontracker started with tons of ad space and VT pro. You simply can't keep something popular up for a long period of time without it funding itself.
btw, one way to help with the bandwidth and space problem would be to link to the files on the theme maker's server. Then again some people would et burned due to the massive amounts of downloads from their site.