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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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03-03-2006, 09:35 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Chapel Hill, NC USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 36,592
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Re: That time a year again...ex friend issues
Robin....
You've got to move on and forget about her. Just go to the show if you must, but ignore her and don't keep worrying about your photography she's using. It's just not worth getting all worked up about (in my opinion). Things will come back to get her one day....karma you know.
Just because her life looks good from the outside, doesn't mean that it is. She probably has problems you don't know anything about.....and are probably the root of her problem in how she dealt with you.
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] Pixies for you to get over her.
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03-03-2006, 11:35 AM
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Eileeeeeeen!™
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 28,861
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Re: That time a year again...ex friend issues
If she still has the ability to make you this mad, then she's won.... and we don't like it when people like her "win"....
My advice: Forget her, forget what she did to you, forget about the negatives and the pictures. Forget her so completely that that kernal of hot anger can't bother you any more.
Live your life with joy and you will have lived. If she treats people with this kind of meanness and smallness of spirit, then she's wasted her life
Good luck
Eileen
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03-03-2006, 01:06 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Philadelphia, PA 19140
Posts: 1,293
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Re: That time a year again...ex friend issues
Robin I know that she hurt you and that it really does still bother you but you have to move on for your own sake. It is not going to do you any good to keep revisiting what she did to you.
I know she hurt you but she will get it back. You plotting on her only makes you miserable. The best thing you can do to make you happy is to move on and to let her go. I think you are giving her too much control over your life. I am not saying what she did and and seeing her is not going to still hurt you and bring back bad memories but those memories should not be what consumes your life.
Ursula
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03-03-2006, 01:32 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 16,825
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Re: That time a year again...ex friend issues
I was watching an Oprah show one time (yeah, I know - I watch too much Orprah! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/blushing.gif[/img]) but one thing she said that I always remember is, "Holding on to anger and bitterness towards someone is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die." It struck such a chord with me! Your being angry and hurt still isonly affecting you. Like you said, she has a good life (although we never know what is really going on behind closed doors) so the only person still being hurt by your past relationship is you. You're too good of a person to let that happen!
Go to the show and have a great time. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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03-07-2006, 08:34 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: NJ
Posts: 568
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Re: That time a year again...ex friend issues
On my way home from work tonight, I passed by a local church that always has an interesting or moving saying or words to live by. Today's message was something to the effect that holding onto anger over someone, only gives that person control over you. It's time for you to put this in the past and move on with your life. It can only make you feel better. Good luck.
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03-07-2006, 10:20 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 3,294
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Re: That time a year again...ex friend issues
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