Now that we are officially (yay) a part of SE, we can revisit one of the main issues that has "plagued" our community and been largely inconsistent with our derived meta of how our site should work.

We want a familiar place to permanently store blend files as opposed to random services such as mega and temporary hosts such as pasteall.

This is not a want, it's a need now

* [Can we have a service for uploading blendfiles?](https://blender.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/297/can-we-have-a-service-for-uploading-blendfiles)
* [Where to upload .blend files - non-expiring links](https://blender.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/344/where-to-upload-blend-files-non-expiring-links)
* [Should all "Ask A Question" pages encourage the poster to upload their blend?](https://blender.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/373/should-all-ask-a-question-pages-encourage-the-poster-to-upload-their-blend)
* [Can we re-upload .blends to more permanent hosts?](https://blender.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/827/can-we-re-upload-blends-to-more-permanent-hosts)
* [Including a .blend file](https://blender.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/658/including-a-blend-file)

Huge thanks to [GiantCowFilms](https://blender.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/630/announcing-blend-exchange-a-new-solution-to-blend-hosting) for stepping up with a solution that worked well but we are in need of something more convenient now. For one, we would like this to be intuitive and normal as in we don't have to remind or tell users to attach files (see 3rd point above).

I won't go into any more detail since this has been discussed many many times, see my [answer here](https://blender.meta.stackexchange.com/a/305/12) for a quick overview.