As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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I understand exactly what is being said in the e-mail, but I send out my sympathies to all those that have made plans for this event. Hopefully you will all be able to go, have your meet and greats, but just without the official recognition.
Well, that's a bummer, but let's hold out hope for a return to MF in 2010. With the thousands of active WDW fans in dozens of communities all over the web, I'm sure that he Executive Committee can find a new chair in time to begin planning for MF2010.
In the meantime, WDW is still the same, and even though we will greatly miss MouseFest, we can all still plan WDW trips and gatherings until MF comes back.
MouseFest began as a fan gathering, and although it's the biggest and best fan gathering extant, there are still plenty of others, from the 2-person lunch meet to larger web community meets.
MouseFest is taking a year off, but the rest of us don't have to.
That is a major bummer because I am planning on going to my first ever solo Mousefest and I have already made my reservations and am really looking forward to it. Without all the meets, I am not sure if I will still be going.
I could cancel my December plans and go during the Decade of Dreams Tour. I think you have to book thru MouseFan to play and I won't do that. May is nice but I've been there in May a few times. I adore WDW at Christmas.
I could also go during Mouse Guest Experience. It's kind of like a mini-mousefest but held in October. I love their podcast but am not active on their forum. PP is where my friends are located. It's also October which IS nice but still not Christmas.
I would still like to go during the time that MF was scheduled and meet with PP friends. Hopefully we'll have others commit to that time as well. Anyone?
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Well, why can't PP friends to their own thing. I belong to another forum that was sort of breaking off from MouseFest for those who wanted to, the others were still planning to go to MF. It might be the same one you're talking about Lorie. I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head right now. We are going back in Oct., so I was planning to go the week they're having theirs to meet some of them.
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I also received the email. While it is sad that there will be no official Mousefest in December 2009, I can certainly understand why they need to take the year off. DH and I still plan on going during those dates in December. I typically had only attended a few Passporter meets in the past but they were fun. Looking forward to December.
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There is no reason at all why members of this and other communities can't still keep their reservations for December and meet up with their friends. It just won't technically be "MouseFest." It would be unofficial meets, that's all.
There is no reason at all why members of this and other communities can't still keep their reservations for December and meet up with their friends. It just won't technically be "MouseFest." It would be unofficial meets, that's all.
I'm 100% with Sara on this. OK, so we haven't booked yet and could technically change our plans, but why should we, when we already know that so many of you will be there at the same time as us? I don't want to miss you guys, so we'll still be heading there on 10 December as planned (economy permitting! ) I hope everyone else will stick to their plans as well.
To be completely honest, all the meets we've attended in the past - with the exception of the MegaMouseMeet - were PassPorter ones, rather than MouseFest ones, so I can't see it being that different, provided we plan some events for us all to enjoy.
Although we're sad there won't be an 'official' Mousefest as this was to be our first, we're still going in December if not to just see the Christmas decorations. But it's good to see so many others not changing their plans as well and I look forward to meeting some of you!
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It just won't technically be "MouseFest." It would be unofficial meets, that's all. 
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OK, so we haven't booked yet and could technically change our plans, but why should we, when we already know that so many of you will be there at the same time as us? I don't want to miss you guys, so we'll still be heading there on 10 December as planned (economy permitting! 
) I hope everyone else will stick to their plans as well. 
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