The plugins site is currently in development.
We've been looking to provide a higher-quality, spam-free experience at the plugins site for some time, and a major error on our part forced us to shut down the current site before we could put the new one in place. We are developing a new site, and you can follow along with its development on GitHub. For more information about this transition, including steps you can take as a plugin author to prepare, please read our post about what's going on.
News ticker (BBC style) 2.0
Upgraded to allow controls for stop and resume, which get automatically appended after the item list for the ticker (unless the option is overridden). Additionally, there is now an option to trigger the stop on hovering over the link.
The addition of the controls and the stop on hover both default to 'on'.
There is currently no option for a "next" button to manually loop over the items, but work on this is underway for a 2.1 release in the very near future.