Ok, this post has been a good six months in the making. I've nearly wrote it a dozen times, but always held back. But seeing as how I haven't updated this project for over three months now, the time is probably right.
I'm 99% sure I'm abandoning this labor of love. I'm leaving that 1% open because it would be silly to say I won't come back to this some day, but I'm pretty sure I'm done. Reasons why:
1) Kids
The second kid created more than 2x the work at home, as I'm sure you multi-kid parents out there understand. Therefore free time is even more limited this year than last.
2) It's not fun anymore
I used to enjoy working on this. It was neat to see who did what differently and also feel like I was contributing to the site. But I'm damn sick of the prequels, at least from a documenting perspective, and the fact that I haven't been able to make myself keep working on this for three months is proof. I made it about halfway through Kerr's EP 3 and just completely lost interest. Not in the edit, which has some really neat stuff in it, but in the process itself. It takes around 8 hours of work to do a 2 hour edit, and I just found myself dreading the work, not to mention avoiding it.
3) I have my own edit to work on now
Not only has my edit replaced this project as my "contribution to the site" (in addition to occasional mod-ing, of course), but as I said in #1, free time is extremely limited. And I love working on the edit. I look forward to it. I can't wait to get back to it. And those reactions are the complete opposite to the ones I have to this project.
Sorry for the mini-rant, I'm not looking for any "please don't do this" posts or any "thanks for all the work" posts. I just needed to get this out of my head. And as I said, it's not 100% dead, but I would be surprised if I bring it back. It's just too painful
By the way, I'd never ask anyone to share this torture with me, but if you are interested in taking the project over, you'll have both my blessing and my admiration.
Thanks to all who have provided support, advice, and encouragement over the last two-and-a-half years (seriously? :shock
-TVF