TL;DR
So that was a lot of words, here’s the takeaway.
- We’d been planning on replacing the original, spam-ridden plugin site for quite some time
- In the process of deleting on the spam, all the plugins were deleted and we didn’t have a recent backup
- Instead of burning cycles keeping the old site on life support, we decided to make a clean break and kick development on the new site into high gear.
- The new site is powered by GitHub and a package manifest for plugins
- Plugins from the old site were never going to be automatically imported into the new one.
- The repo is at github.com/jquery/plugins.jquery.com
- We are very sorry, but also very excited!