I have seen custom models and some weapons though. And what's the problem with for example tracking the 25 most populair maps on openarena (which aren't default maps) and uploading those every month to the site. I could probably track and upload it, the only thing is publish it here.
(25maps and 1month for time are just random chosen, can be more, less, longer or shorter ofcourse).
Also there are tons of mods available where people might be interrested in.
As the moment, the community is widely spread. Most players are only active ingame, clanmembers on their clanforum and a few other clanforums, people with an irc client on a few random irc channels, some players with facebook are member of the oa group there, a few also regularly check the oacl (clan league) forums, and a few developers and players are active here.
I don't think there is anyone active everywhere, so we need a central place. By making this site more interresting for everyone (so adding more downloads and things to do), we can centralize a lot of things and via that probably grow the community.
Not sure how many people saw it, but WaspKiller posted an announcement for the ctf event on a Lot of forums to get players. If more people were active here, he could just post here and some people would start copying it to their site. Most likely most members of the community would read about it somewhere, while the announcement has been posted just once or at most a few times.
And how many of you know that there is an Openarena lan-party coming up in 2011? It has been announced here, on a number of clanforums and facebook, but I doubt a lot of people here know about it.
hmm actually this post is going a little offtopic, but it might be something to think about. For now, let's focus on the download section. That's what this topic was started for
