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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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I can't even remember when we started its been that long!! DMom's neighborhood is 713 but if you move into it now they will either get a 281 or 832 number, very confusing! I'm just glad that anything you dial on a cell can be the 10 digits and you don't need the 1 in front. That makes programming cell phones easier than home phones (if anyone still has one, i do lol). I remember when everything outside the Houston metropolitan area was 409, not anymore. Some places have changed area codes and Richmond/Rosenberg have grown so much that they have been realigned and given new zip codes in some of the areas. Talk about confusing!
Another Houstonian here! I think it was in the late '80s. I graduated from high school in 1990, and I know we were already doing it then, but it was relatively new. I remember going to my college roommate's house in Connecticut for fall break and trying to call a friend at Yale. I was dialing all 10 numbers because that's what I thought was "normal" and the call wouldn't go through -- it took my roommate a few minutes to figure out what I was doing wrong!
Another Houstonian here! I think it was in the late '80s. I graduated from high school in 1990, and I know we were already doing it then, but it was relatively new. I remember going to my college roommate's house in Connecticut for fall break and trying to call a friend at Yale. I was dialing all 10 numbers because that's what I thought was "normal" and the call wouldn't go through -- it took my roommate a few minutes to figure out what I was doing wrong!
Has it really been that long! I knew we had been doing it for quite a while.
Too funny about the college story. I never knew it wouldn't go through. I've never been anywhere long enough to need to use the local phones. Always the cell and that has me using the 10 digits anyways.
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I remember the old days when we only had to dial 4 digits to call someone else in town. Some of the bigger cities had to dial 5.
Even though we only have to dial 7, the calls do go through with 10. I prefer to have ten in my cell phone because I no longer have most numbers committed to memory and found it annoying to have to dial manually when traveling.
Teresa, when I got married years ago, we too were on a party line with my in-laws. We were usually the one who had to wait for a free line.
That's funny!! My in-laws had 5 kids, their "neighbors" (relatives), had 4, there were always at least 3 other teens living with my in-laws (they took any all their nieces and nephews that their loser siblings couldn't or wouldn't care for - and there were a lot of them - in a small 3-bedroom ranch). Then, a little down the street there was a family with 7 kids. That was about it on the street - but if you're counting - that's a minimum of 19 kids, all in their early to late teens. I'm surprised anyone ever had a phone conversation.
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DMom's neighborhood is 713 but if you move into it now they will either get a 281 or 832 number, very confusing! I'm just glad that anything you dial on a cell can be the 10 digits and you don't need the 1 in front. That makes programming cell phones easier than home phones (if anyone still has one, i do lol). I remember when everything outside the Houston metropolitan area was 409, not anymore. Some places have changed area codes and Richmond/Rosenberg have grown so much that they have been realigned and given new zip codes in some of the areas. Talk about confusing!
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