The jQuery team just posted news about changes to their plugin repository to their blog. This really only impact jQuery plugin developers (like me) and not end users so most of you don’t need to worry about this. However if you’re like me, you have some changes to make. In a nutshell the blog post says:

• 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!

So it looks like I’ll have to get everything moved over to github and make some updates to the plugin packages as well. In the meantime you can continue to download the plugins from this site. One of which is currently being completely re-written :)