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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Thanks Jennifer, that's what I thought and just wanted to confirm it. I have a couple of clients that no longer purchase 'real' books and wanted to get a PPer.
I just wanted to say that I would LOVE it if the PP was available on Kindle. I will always buy a real Passporter but I am a serious Kindle user and would buy that version as well. I think the Passporter is a good example of a book that most e-reader people would want in hard and electric format : )
I just wanted to say that I would LOVE it if the PP was available on Kindle. I will always buy a real Passporter but I am a serious Kindle user and would buy that version as well. I think the Passporter is a good example of a book that most e-reader people would want in hard and electric format : )
I love ebooks, but the things that really set the Passporter apart in my mind are the things you just can't get in an electronic format...the fold-out maps, the planning pockets, etc.
I had maps and touring guides on my smart phone...and yet we turned to our Passporter more on our trip when it came to planning...the other apps were only used for wait-time checks after awhile.
I totally agree.... I need my Passporter in my hands...LOL
I would never buy an e-version instead of my annual Passporter, but I would love to have a second electronic copy : )
I totally agree.... I need my Passporter in my hands...LOL
I would never buy an e-version instead of my annual Passporter, but I would love to have a second electronic copy : )
Then I could really take it with me anywhere and just browse.
I know I said I was going to buy a Kindle but I bought a nook instead and I LOVE it!
Anyway, add me to the ones who said that PP is one book I actually want the original way because of the pockets, etc. But I would love to have some of the worksheets on my nook in addition to the book itself.
I know I said I was going to buy a Kindle but I bought a nook instead and I LOVE it!
Anyway, add me to the ones who said that PP is one book I actually want the original way because of the pockets, etc. But I would love to have some of the worksheets on my nook in addition to the book itself.
I don't think the Nook would allow you to fill out the worksheets, but I could be wrong about that -- I do not have a Nook to test it on. I'm pretty sure you need to use Adobe Reader on a desktop computer to fill out worksheets.
Anyone with a Nook could test this now, though, by downloading one of the free worksheets and putting it on the Nook to see if it works -- a free worksheet is available at: http://www.passporterboards.com/foru...on-glance.html
I just checked, and you are correct Jennifer. You cannot edit the worksheet on the Nook (I didn't think you could). However, I was able to view both the original and a filled in version of the test file on my nook. They are a little light, but definitely viewable. If anyone desires, I can post a picture of how the file looks.
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I just checked, and you are correct Jennifer. You cannot edit the worksheet on the Nook (I didn't think you could). However, I was able to view both the original and a filled in version of the test file on my nook. They are a little light, but definitely viewable. If anyone desires, I can post a picture of how the file looks.
Thank you for checking. I'd love to see a picture!
Please excuse the photo quality! My hands kept shaking and they didn't come out as clear as I wanted. :P
The first picture is a whole view of the entire screen of my nook. I downloaded the test worksheet and edited one line just to do a quick test. The screen looks a little blurry here, but that is me taking the picture NOT the nook. The text on the worksheet is lightish, but definitely readable and not blurry at all.
This second one is a close-up view of the same worksheet, just showing a bit better how it looks to read. Again, the blurriness is me, not the nook, and definitely not the worksheet. I will try to get better images at some point, I was just getting annoyed that I couldn't get a clear photo this time around.
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