+1. I'm not against making a fancy front-end if people are willing to maintain it, but I'm a big fan of building something simple at first, and then adding features later.
I'm not sure. I think we'd transfer at least a few of the recent ones to seed the new list. We can go further back if someone wants to scrape it. I see it more as a way to showcase new games and tools rather than an archive, but other people may disagree.
I hope that the old site will remain accessible after the DNS changes at something like
old.Pygame.org, for as long as that server stays up.