They had a plugin site running for a long time, but one of the admins accidentally deleted more than half of the database one day when trying to purge some spam

They had a plugin site running for a long time, but one of the admins accidentally deleted more than half of the database one day when trying to purge some spam, and the most recent backup was over a year old, so they decided to scrap the whole thing and move to a git-based system.