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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Sometimes, I swear I'd go back to the good ol' days when you put the new tv in place, plugged it in and turned it on, then just moved the rabbit ears antenna around until you got pretty good reception.
Well, actually, I don't even know what that was like since we lived so far from the ONE station we could get when my family first got a tv that we had to have a 30-ft. high antenna.
Anyway, so we just had to replace our little living room flat screen. Got a really sweet Sony from DH Drew's work rewards points for a very nice price, FREE. Can't beat free for sure.
We were all happy once the setup process was done, and this crystal-clear picture came onscreen, BUT--you guessed it--no sound.
Daggone, there's always some durn thing with new tv setup! Especially when we have Uverse along with a DVD/VHS player so have to figure out what cable needs to connect just where for this tv to do its thingie.
Drew got this really smart idea this afternoon and had me try getting a show on Internet tv to see if it could be something wrong with the tv, but luckily, it's not the tv. It pulled in an old Twilight Zone episode from my Amazon Prime wish list with just great picture and sound.
So, now, the fun stuff of pulling out the DVD player and the Uverse box to see just where the audio outputs are and figure out what needs to connect where is next whenever I get over being mad at the thing. Ggggggggrrrrrr
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I think you need to find yourself a teenager to give you a hand with the technology. They seem to be able to work anything new and tech-ie.
Yes! This!
I'm still using an "old-school" TV. I look longingly at the flat-screens in the stores, and in the homes of most of my family members and friends, and I'll "go there" when my set finally gives up the ghost. I just hope I can figure it out when the time comes.
I also miss the good old days when you just had to take the t.v. out of the box and plug it in. I had to get a new t.v. last year, and it took forever to figure what plug goes where. Plus I had to get some sort of adapter thing, because the new t.v. did not have enough places to plug things (like the dvd player) in. Of course, I didn't know that until we tried putting everything back together. But at least I could get the Uverse working-that was the main thing at the time. But that even took awhile!
Sony support had no clue, of course. DH went methodically through any potentially relevant settings and discovered the tv somehow got set to headphone-only. Turned that off, and BINGO, both Uverse and Net tv work. We have a gorgeous picture with beautifully clear sound.
::::: doing happy tv works dance ::::::
Eventually, we'll figure out how to get the DVD player to work. Got one with our bedroom tv which we use more anyway. We'll get the living room one working eventually.
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Plus I had to get some sort of adapter thing, because the new t.v. did not have enough places to plug things (like the dvd player) in. Of course, I didn't know that until we tried putting everything back together. But at least I could get the Uverse working-that was the main thing at the time. But that even took awhile!
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