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Hi fellow forcebookers! I know the site is very quiet these days and I accept the responsibility for that. The big mistake I made was choosing a platform which has ceased any sort of support or development. It works ok and does the job but has never caught on as appealing for people to use. I feel like everyone is off having their Star Wars discussions on regular social media platforms. I really do not want to shut down Forcebook but a change is needed I think. 

So I do have an alternative platform. it looks very promising. It has an active development team and community making plugins and add-ons for it. It also lays the groundwork to create a native IOS and Android app for the site which is the No1 thing holding us back I think. 

I want some feedback. Should I migrate all users over to the new platform or just start from scratch with only the active users being encouraged to come over to the new platform ? I dont have the means to do a full data migration from this platform over to the new one. But I am hoping this would be the last time we ever do such a migration and this new platform will serve the community for years to come. Also I could get passionate and excited for the site again. I would love to hear your feedback. 

Thank you

-John

Owner theforcebook.com. Founded May 4th 2010

Hey gang! Myself and two of my friends started a project back in July based off of podcasts such as The Worst Idea Of All Time and Till Death Do Us Blart where we take the core nine Star Wars movies and continually watch them every single week in succession. Part of it is an experiment to see what comes of it, but mostly it's us being idiots while occasionally breaking out into more critical thinking and then entirely ruining anything we might say with a terrible bit, such as Downtime Darth, a bit in which we vaguely pitch ideas of what Darth Vader does on his down time. Occasionally we'll dig into the current lore and the EU or talk about the unique challenges and things we've observed by doing this so much.

The podcast releases every Wednesday at about 12 Eastern Standard Time. The show is perpetually recorded six weeks ahead so we're in the midst of recording our second rotation, however this week will release our second rotation Rise Of Skywalker episode. If this is up your alley and you're not looking to take things too seriously, you can find us on most podcasting sites except iTunes, and we highly suggest our youtube version as well just because it's occasionally aided by visual cues. Our only current social media is twitter, and you can find us there for updates and just general bull at @SWEWF.

We also recently released a new episode Christmas day, which started a new tradition of watching the Star Wars Holiday Special every single Christmas. We're very proud of the episode.

This is a passion project of ours, and we'd be honored if you would join us for the ride.

Keeping the spirit of May the 4th, we've done an interactive quiz. If you are a true fan, you can save Princess Leia from the Evil Hutts who kidnapped her.

Click here : https://surveysparrow.com/may-the-4th-be-with-you-star-wars-day-2020/