hoz and savedbygrace, Well spoken!
BAS has offered up many great addons in the past and I expect they will in the future. If you check the multitude of sites (OFPEC, Armaholic, BI forums, etc) you will find a lot of redundant info. I think OFPEC's renewed effort at being "an editing center" instead of catering to one particular "faction" lends itself a bit of impartiality. That is a good thing!
I for one hate the word "SEARCH", all to often on many of the other sites that is the answer you will receive when you ask a question. It occasionally happens here, but not with the same frequency and not when you properly and intelligently phrase your question.
About BAS, yes it sucks that their web site is down, How about contacting Fer personally and asking whats up?
Back in the Day OFPEC was "IT". It's where you went for all your info. I agree that a lot of the tutorials are out dated and either need refreshing or deleting. Thankfully Mr. Murray ( a relative unknown to me ) came along and wrote an amazing tutorial. It goes to show that you don't need to be a big production to make contributions to the community.