The content is still a little out of date, but the basic functionality is complete enough for me to re-post Steve’s Star Wars Timeline. Yes, the timeline that just won’t die resurfaces once again!

I’ll be phasing in a few more updates to get it back to its former state, and hopefully add new features from there. As always, I appreciate your feedback and hope you find the timeline to be a useful resource.

“Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if you had a community-driven site where folks could write about Star Wars.”

That’s always been the mission of Jedinet, so this latest development is just part of the natural evolution of a Star Wars based website. Again, it is regrettable that content on this site has been scarce as of late, and for various reasons my contribution has has been lax lately. But with a fresh start, I’m resolved to change that. I’d like to encourage everyone out there, the loyal readers of Jedinet, to register and contribute news and information. The internet is changing, and there’s still a lively community out there. Things are a lot more interactive now.

For the moment, if you have Star Wars related news or information and wish to see it posted here, you may contact me at my temporary address via fazimoto at gmail dot com. Otherwise you’re welcome to join and post away!

I was a long time fan of JediNet and frankly, after the prequels I didn’t venture out much online to any Star Wars news sites.  I didn’t want to be spoiled and my interest in finding out the latest on the movies was dwindling.  Simpy put, there wasn’t much that was bigger than Episode 3.  The series was finally coming to an end and I’d found other avenues of interest to keep me occupied in the aftermath:  the EU.

Like Club Jade, I’m not surprised JediNet has gone down the path of the blog.  I like the change although it’s always sad to see a little piece of fandom history losing a part of itself to accomodate modern practices

With the success of the StarWars.com blogs, I hope to see more people encouraged to continue to post their opinions and other fan interests to keep the fire burning.

It’s cool to see that JediNet is still here in some form. The ASP site was really dead anyhow. Long live the Bloggy JediNet! I think it’s a good idea to have the entire community be your staff. Good luck and I’ll be keeping an eye on this…

Hey everyone,

You are either saying “Man, JediNet has been down for the past week! I wonder what’s up?” or “Man, I guess JediNet finally gave up the fight. That site had been dead man, dead.”

Well, first off, I’ll be the first to admit that posting Star Wars news hasn’t been my top priority in this post-Revenge of the Sith world. Not that I disliked the film, I actually enjoyed it quite a bit — more than I expected to. However, I personally don’t have a lot of interest in the whole EU scene and JediNet’s staff had dwindled over the years. It turned into Shada posting collecting news and my hopping on every once in a while to post major news.

Well, technical matters intervened and lit a fire under me. Last week when I was uploading pictures from a friend’s wedding to a personal site I had hosted on the JN server, I noticed that there were some issues. My FTP transfer kept cutting off, and when I logged onto the server remotely I couldn’t stay connected. A phone call to tech support was placed. I was told that my hard drive was toast as well as the motherboard.

I had been hosting JN on a Windows 2003 server because the site was running on a custom ASP program. This cost about a hundred dollars a month, and that made it necessary to fill the site with ugly, annoying banner and interstitial ads — when I took over JN in 2004 it was paying for itself every month, I’ll be the first to admit that the revenue from the months surrounding Episode III’s release helped to pay for my new computer (a PowerMac G5, which seems so outdated now a year and a half later)… but as of late, well, not a lot of Star Wars news being posted, less people visiting and I was paying out of pocket monthly even with all the banners. Had I not been hosting some other sites on the server I may very well have pulled the plug a few months ago.

The server crash seemed like a perfect opportunity to do just that. However, after a day of work and a lot of reading of The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Engadget, I said to myself “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if you had a community-driven site where folks could write about Star Wars.”

JediNet, as an established domain, seems like a good stepping stone for just that. So here’s the deal. I’m inviting you, the person reading this, to set up an account here and post. It could be a review of the latest Star Wars book or comic, it could be news that just broke and you’d like to share with fans, it cold be something about an interview with someone you’ve done for your web site. I’m going to leave this open and unmoderated to start — consider it an experiment. If folks start abusing the posting, I’ll be forced to add moderation… and of course we’ll be working on bringing back some of the old JediNet content to you in the coming weeks. If anyone would like to lend a hand, set up a user account and drop a comment in here. In the meantime, enjoy and happy posting.