Having the AppImages on the PATH is for sure an advantage. But ~/.local/bin is hidden from GUI-only users. Ideally we need a place that satisfies both.
I already thought about adding a single-line copy-paste install script that you can just paste into your terminal, just like Homebrew does. The downside is, that this trains users to blindly execute any potentially malicious terminal commands they find in the internet.
I will for sure recommend also installing appimaged. Let’s hope for it to be included in many distributions as soon as possible. But I like the fact that it is not strictly required. This is the main benefit over snap or flatpak.
If AppImageHub or AppImageUpdater (or other services) don’t extract version information or other metadata from GitHub Releases, we will stick with Bintray for now.