I would like to suggest to keep the downloads feature, but include it into overall workspace size.
The lack of downloads (at that time) was the reason why i had to use Bitbucket instead of Github. Now it seems that situation has reversed.
Sometimes it's really needed, for instance if you build packages for embedded Linux: it's much more convenient to have a package available in downloads instead of making folks to build that package by themselves.
It's not really a big deal, as i don't need downloads anymore. Just wanted to point this out.
I hope it will turn out okay. Good luck.