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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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'm a huge advocate of Freecycle, the group that lets people post stuff on their site for other people to pick up - free. Stays out of the landfill - great! Well, people post wanteds on the site too. That's fine because it's cool to help other people out.
Well, someone posted that they wanted firewood; they would take your old dead branches, logs, whatever. I felt compelled to respond to that request, saying that we shouldn't transport wood due to the Emerald Ash Borer invasion in our area. It's been all over the news about transporting unknown wood. To please use firewood that has been certified to be Emerald Ash Borer-free.
For that, I got BANNED!!! What a surprise! I can no longer view or post to this Yahoo group. So much for raising awareness that you shouldn't transport wood.
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I wish they would ban me, I have repeatedly asked to be taken off the list and wish to no longer be apart of the "community" about 5 times. I have had to get a new email address because I would get about 300 or more emails a day from freecycle and just couldn't keep up. CRAZY!!!!
Its strange sometimes people who want me to act/think a certain way do more to turn me off then anything. Once I was really into recycling everything. I mean newspaper/cans/bottles,oil,all that. Then one day I went into a coffee house just to get a cup before work. After I bought coffee this woman demanded that I use her stir stick to save a tree(She was a stranger to me) I told her I would use my own stir stick...thank you anyway. She said idiots like me were why the Earth was so messed up. I spent the next few months just throwing everything in the garbage. Who in the heck was she?? I don't know and I don't care.
Its strange sometimes people who want me to act/think a certain way do more to turn me off then anything. Once I was really into recycling everything. I mean newspaper/cans/bottles,oil,all that. Then one day I went into a coffee house just to get a cup before work. After I bought coffee this woman demanded that I use her stir stick to save a tree(She was a stranger to me) I told her I would use my own stir stick...thank you anyway. She said idiots like me were why the Earth was so messed up. I spent the next few months just throwing everything in the garbage. Who in the heck was she?? I don't know and I don't care.
LOL, that is just disgusting!
that's ok, our "Recycle" company that picks up the recyclables is the same as the people that pick up the trash. On numerous occasions the "Recycle" truck didn't come around, but the "Garbage" truck guys picked up the "Recyclables" and disposed of them into the "Garbage" truck! I was so angry because I not only dispose of the "Recyclables" properly but I wash them out! So, I started throwing the "Recyclables" in trash and my DH asked what I was doing? My reply, I am just helping out the Garbage Men.
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. That is something people should think about before they start transporting wood across the area. I'm sorry they did that to you.
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