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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Toni....
Have a great trip and bring back some sun! I am having the "OMG, Winter is coming" issues. I just want to go somewhere and do something exciting! It's been less than a year since my last vacation, but I am soooooo burned out. Think all the politics here at work are making me crazy!
Drive carefully and don't get caught speeding! Enjoy your trip and eat a Mickey Bar or Dole Whip for me!!
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Jennifer / Eeyore is my favorite!! OMG - He's sooooo grown up!!!! And an EAGLE SCOUT!! I can still remember my cute little Tiger Cub! 2016 Reading Goal - 75 books
Jennifer - I will do my best to bring good weather back with me, but I fear this year is a lost cause on that front! Sorry about the work politics, I'll just be glad that I won't be around for the aftermath of the election. The senate race is killing me! So sick of the back and forth stuff. lol So I will leave you to the mess!
I will do my best to drive correctly. Erin's mom sent us an email about California's ticket charges as well as rules and it has us freaked out. I don't speed (the most over the limit I go is 5 miles over and that's just to bump it up to 60 on the Peninsula lol as pretty much everyone else does) as a rule - especially if I don't know the area, but it's like go 1 mile over and we'll get you! YIKES! And with us having out of state plates, you can bet we'll get pegged!
Jennifer - I will do my best to bring good weather back with me, but I fear this year is a lost cause on that front! Sorry about the work politics, I'll just be glad that I won't be around for the aftermath of the election. The senate race is killing me! So sick of the back and forth stuff. lol So I will leave you to the mess!
Yeah, the weather is pretty much shot for the winter. Maybe we will have a mild winter with LOTS of snow....I can handle that!! I just hope it's not vicious cold the 13th-14th of Nov - DS has a boy scout winter campout! I worry about him not staying warm, even though I make sure he has all the right gear.
I, too, am SICK of the senate race. And unfortunately, DH and I have differing views, so it can make for some tense discussions. He hates this one, I dislike them all! So, basically I can't win! I just try to avoid the discussions all together - but of course that makes me look like I don't care or don't get it!
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I will do my best to drive correctly. Erin's mom sent us an email about California's ticket charges as well as rules and it has us freaked out. I don't speed (the most over the limit I go is 5 miles over and that's just to bump it up to 60 on the Peninsula lol as pretty much everyone else does) as a rule - especially if I don't know the area, but it's like go 1 mile over and we'll get you! YIKES! And with us having out of state plates, you can bet we'll get pegged!
Are you renting a car? That was the problem a friend of mine had down there. People passing her left and right, but the cop picked her to give the ticket to...She scrapped it for her vacation album.
Again - have fun!!!!
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Jennifer / Eeyore is my favorite!! OMG - He's sooooo grown up!!!! And an EAGLE SCOUT!! I can still remember my cute little Tiger Cub! 2016 Reading Goal - 75 books
I'm the same way I am so close to just writing in the dogs name as at this point I'm not happy with any of them! ugh! (Though I do feel sorry for McAdams, he is so out of his league! I wonder what Tony Knowles is thinking. He'd have a great shot at this point, IMO - oops! politics, gotta stop! LOL)
and no we're not renting a car, Erin lives in Montana so we're driving her car.
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