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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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07-15-2006, 06:05 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 3,651
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Is there an easier way?
I really want to put pictures in my next trip report, so I suggested the imagestation web site to Jay and he tested it out. However, it took 15 minutes to upload one picture from his computer! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] (We're stuck in dial-up land.) At that rate, I don't think it's worth it to put the pictures in. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Is there an easier way to get your pictures to a place where they can be linked to in your trip report?
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07-15-2006, 06:32 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
Posts: 14,165
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Re: Is there an easier way?
Since you're on dialup, not really. Do you have access to high speed internet elsewhere? You could put your photos on a disk and then upload them to Imagestation or Photobucket from there in no time at all, and then the hard part's done.
One thing---TR photos can't be too large and I wasn't able to resize my photos on Imagestation. It's easier to resize at Photobucket.com, and they provide cut-and-pastable easy links, too. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/luck.gif[/img]
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07-16-2006, 07:17 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: Is there an easier way?
Unfortunately being on dial-up is a downfall to wanting to post pictures Christie [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] As Rachel mentioned, you could resize them, then put them on a CD and upload them to Imagestation or Photobucket from a high speed connection (maybe your local library)?? I don't know if those two sites accept mailed CDs, but that's what I used to do with Shutterfly (mail them the CD and they would upload them to my account).
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07-16-2006, 09:18 AM
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The Original BagMan
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Shalimar, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 22,002
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Re: Is there an easier way?
The key is to resize them to your posting size before you upload, I use 400 x 300 pixels. This makes the photos very small in physical size and they upload much faster. On dial-up it will still take a long time, but it's much more tolerable.
After resizing, I've uploaded them from my laptop (using an air card which is as slow as dial-up) while traveling down the interstate, usually taking a minute or less per photo...
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07-17-2006, 04:40 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 3,651
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Re: Is there an easier way?
Thanks, everyone. Well, when Joshua finishes one more year of preschool and we don't have to pay his tuition anymore, we can afford to fit high-speed internet back into the budget. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
Until that time, I will make sure Jay resizes the pics and see if that helps. Hopefully so, since he took some awesome nature pictures with his new camera. Also, I'll bore all of you to tears if you have to read "we walked on this trail and looked at this waterfall, then we walked on another trail and looked at another waterfall" with no pictures to look at! (We were in Gatlinburg.)
Thanks for the suggestions, we'll try them out tonight when Jay gets home from work. Then hopefully you'll see a trip report beginning pretty soon.
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07-19-2006, 06:32 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 3,651
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Re: Is there an easier way?
Thanks, Bill, the resizing did the trick! I'll start the report soon.
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