greetings from the new king and queen!! PART III - Page 23 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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oh, I want on the mailing list to flood king scott!
Long live queen mary! See I knew my hard work would pay off some day...LOL
Breakfast this morning is: eggs (your way), sausage, bacon, hashbrowns, cinnamon rolls, pancakes, coffee, tea, water, soda, poptarts for all!
Ty my dearest Kristen. Your service is greatly appreciated. I will miss you tonight. If I get service on my cell up there in them mountains then I shall give you a call. I do hope that dinner is adequate and to my standards
have fun but not too much fun without me or OFF WITH YOUR HEADS!!!
I really think there should be an adult fairy godmailing list...if there is one being made, count me in too! Breakfast sounds yummy! I am currently at the office watching the nice candle flicker.....as we try and get the smell of SKUNK out of the office!! The management company has tried to capture our stinky friend for seven years...we are hopeful thta he/she will soon die of old age.
You have my deepest sympathies as we now have another squirrel (at least) habitating on our front porch AGAIN. So hopefully DH can get rid of them while I am gone this weekend.
Ugh...squirrels. We had one in the shed. DH is from the city and was NOT happy there was an animal in the shed. He heard it and was was talking to it telling it to leave. I went in the shed to get our bridge for GS (at 10pm) and started pulling pieces of our christmas float out so I could get to the bridge. I saw something brown/red on one of the boards, and since I'm getting old and don't see to well anymore I leaned in to get a closer look.....IT WAS THE SQUIRREL!!! DH had also been lifting the christmas float boards (Earlier in the day)to look for the bridge, and somehow he had managed to drop the boards right on the squirrels neck! It was dead on the board. I was out of the shed like a shot. I ran in the house, and pointed at my DH for him to get his butt out to the shed, I was so grossed out, telling him there was a...there was a...finally he figured out I found the squirrel. He did remove though...he tentatively removed the long board with the dead squirrel and threw it into the woods. YUCK!
Well unfortunately DH broke a window on the front porch so either that or the one that he left open is how it got in. So now it is DH's responsibility to get rid of it as I won't even go out on that porch til I know for a fact that it is gone.
Good luck Mary with your camping trip and with DH getting rid of the squirrel!
Good luck getting rid of the Skunk smell Patty (we have them in our yard several nights a week).
Thanks for breakfast Kristen!
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Some Day My Prince Will Come!
Katie - WDW - August 2011
We have a groundhog living under our deck. We were told to use Fox urine around his hole and he would leave. NAH, not so much, he was sunbathing on the deck when we got home yesterday. When I tapped on the window, he ran right under the deck to his hole.
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The funny thing is I live in the country and I have less smell than I do in the office, and it's in the middle of town on Main Street, on the campus of UNH! I've seen the little sucker too, walking along by a group of students in the parking lot of the store 24 and neither the students or the skunk was upset by the other being there.
I haven't seen a skunk at home in years! Thankfully...
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