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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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SNOW! That is a four letter word I do not like! :
We have had absolutely beautiful weather here the last three days! Warm sunshine, blue skies and I have enjoyed every minute of it! I know the bottom will soon fall out of it and I so don't enjoy cold, damp, gray days!
Dh is out mowing right now and I have the windows opened. I know by Wednesday, the furnace will need to be back on!
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We woke up to 9 inches of snow. Sun is out now and the wind is blowing. Snow isn't bad, it is the wind that comes with our winter that drives me to the brink of insanity!!
wow really early for snow good luck and have fun and enjoy. My son has a friend in Florida who has never seen snow and wants to see it really bad its just funny to me that some people have never seen snow.
Ugh - snow is the nastiest four letter word in the dictionary. But it was a glorious 85 deg here today. Love those last warm days of autumn. Is it politically incorrect to call it "Indian Summer?" If yes, what do you call it now?
Here in MT we've got at least 5" so far with no sign of it letting up, you guys. I just went out and shoveled the really wet gunk off the deck and off of the sidewalks. We've lost power for just a blip of a second, but the power lines and trees with leaves still are really suffering. My poor ash tree out back has had a few limbs snapped off. I went around and shook the snow off of everything I could reach. It blanketed me with a shower.
The satellite tv isn't coming in because it's snowing so hard and the cloud cover is too thick. The boys have occupied themselves playing a marathon of Disney monopoly and trading Pokemon cards. I managed to get all of my essays corrected by 3:00 pm. Who knew all I needed to get motivated was a snowstorm??
We'll be keeping our eyes on the weather tomorrow morning as I suspect we'll be delayed in starting school. I say delayed because we NEVER close. :
For all those with temps in the glorious 60's-80's...I live vicariously through you.
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Ughhh...
shhhhhh......
snow is the 4 letter word I hate the most.... we've had the most beautiful weekend here in NH, but I know the yuckiness is just around the corner....
We woke up to 9 inches of snow. Sun is out now and the wind is blowing. Snow isn't bad, it is the wind that comes with our winter that drives me to the brink of insanity!!
Sounds like you are like me... it's not the snow that is the worst - it is the cold weather that lasts for 6 or 7 months.
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Here in MT we've got at least 5" so far with no sign of it letting up, you guys. I just went out and shoveled the really wet gunk off the deck and off of the sidewalks. We've lost power for just a blip of a second, but the power lines and trees with leaves still are really suffering. My poor ash tree out back has had a few limbs snapped off. I went around and shook the snow off of everything I could reach. It blanketed me with a shower.
The satellite tv isn't coming in because it's snowing so hard and the cloud cover is too thick. The boys have occupied themselves playing a marathon of Disney monopoly and trading Pokemon cards. I managed to get all of my essays corrected by 3:00 pm. Who knew all I needed to get motivated was a snowstorm??
We'll be keeping our eyes on the weather tomorrow morning as I suspect we'll be delayed in starting school. I say delayed because we NEVER close. :
For all those with temps in the glorious 60's-80's...I live vicariously through you.
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Wow, snow storms in mid-October! It seems kinda early for that. We are still in the mid-80's here.
It's not the first time that there's been a bad snowstorm on (our) Thanksgiving weekend. I remember 8 or 10 years ago we went "back home" for Thanksgiving and got storm stayed for a couple extra days. DH missed work and the kids missed school as a result. We've never gone "back home" for Thanksgiving again because the weather can be so iffy.
But then again, we have years where mid-October is beautiful. Canadian Thanksgiving weekend is the weekend DH & I got married 23 years ago and we had beautiful weather.
Wow, snow storms in mid-October! It seems kinda early for that. We are still in the mid-80's here.
In this part of the world, snow in September is more the norm. The past two years we have been fortunate with long autumns. Apparently, we were overdue for a good storm!
Like WDWJAMBA mentioned, the broken limbs are a huge downfall of early snows as the trees haven't lost all their leaves, so therefore, a heavy snow can break a tree in half. Not good! This happens in the spring as well when the trees are leafing out. Neighbors lost 80% of a maple due to this.
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I just went out and shoveled the really wet gunk off the deck and off of the sidewalks. We've lost power for just a blip of a second, but the power lines and trees with leaves still are really suffering. My poor ash tree out back has had a few limbs snapped off. I went around and shook the snow off of everything I could reach. It blanketed me with a shower.
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