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There are other changes as well.

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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.

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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!

Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!

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Old 11-01-2010, 09:54 PM   #1
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Is Passporter.com experiencing problems?

I am having a hard time going into the discussions sections,it keeps telling me the page is not available. I also cant post a topic in the DVC section. This area is the only one & top of the board that I can get into....anyone else having issues or can help me, Im having disney discussion withdraw
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Old 11-02-2010, 07:11 AM   #2
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Not that we're aware of.

First suggestion is to log off the boards, clean out your cache/cookies, reboot your computer, then log back into Passporter and see if that resets the problem...
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Old 11-29-2010, 10:25 AM   #3
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tried but that didnt work unfortuanteley apple tells me it is an issue with the passporter site possibly the GZIP ?
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I am trying a disable of the GZIP on our boards, Tigger25. Does this fix your problems?

Please note that if disabling GZIP affects the performance of our site, I will need to renable it. But at least we can give this a try to see if it helps.
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Old 12-01-2010, 09:02 PM   #5
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Thanks Jennifer, now I keep getting a page not found error. I had my sister try to log on to the site from her home in NJ and she was getting the same thing. What a bummer I miss blogging
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Old 12-13-2010, 07:35 PM   #6
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I am having problems getting into Passporter as well. The only way I can get into the threads is from the home page; I click Quick Links; Discussions; Sharing. Through sharing I can see the boards and then click "new" to bring up all the new posts and threads. If I click Discussions; Top of the Board, it does nothing. And the other options just say: Page cannot be found. Might have been removed, name changed, or temp unavail. This has been this way for probably over a month now.

I don't mind it myself, since I can still get on under the "Sharing" option. But it might be part of the problem Tigger25 was having?
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Old 12-15-2010, 07:50 PM   #7
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Hi Griffin glad to hear i am not the only one. I would email Jennifer Marx and let her know you are experiencing the same issue. I was in touch with her through private messages a few weeks back but havent heard back from her regarding the page not found issue. Hopefully it will update soon I am so anxious to blog about my May WDW trip !!!! If you hear anything please let me know!!!
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Old 12-29-2010, 11:30 PM   #8
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I haven't had any problems. Sorry-hope that get your problems fixed soon, As pass porters is very addicting. I can't go to bed from wanting to see what is going on with everyone.
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