I have used plain binaries of some projects from time to time, a) to test the waters, and b) integrate a small tool into my workflow with minimal effort and disruption to my overall task at hand.

Like I said elsewhere, the fact that they are retaining upload functionality, but only for images and not for binaries makes no sense to me.

Source only distributions? This is what happens more-or-less:

https://plus.google.com/109834643338395014064/posts/4hMiZ3s4...

Someone else raised the same concerns, so in the principle of DRY: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4908007