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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Trip Planner
As you may know, Jennifer has put lots of time and effort into making a marvelous set of tools that come together as her Trip Planner. To get started, just click on CONCIERGE near the top of this page and begin setting up your next trip.
You can do so much: record your transportation, lodging, and touring plans, make notes, save it all to the cloud or print it out, make a personalized trip countdown, and much more! You can also link your trip to the appropriate LIVE! Guide (after you subscribe to it) and have even more functionality right at your fingertips.
You can come to this thread to ask questions and tell us what you like about it. Hoping to hear from you!
Could you at least add custom as an option in the various fields? As it is the Trip Planner is frustrating and a waste of time for me. As an example I start my trip the night before my departure/arrival day by staying in hotel near the airport but hotel/lodging isn't an option neither is transportation for my departure days. I'd like to use it but as it is every time I start setting up a trip I'm quickly reminded of how frustrating it is and delete the trip. I started setting up a trip today and will be deleting it as the whole thing just annoys and frustrates me. I should be able to enter whatever information I want on any given day without have to try and fit it in to categories and label it with labels/titles that are pre-determined with no way of customizing them. I love Passporter and I never would have gone on my first trip if I hadn't discovered it because every other guide was either useless (imho) or overwhelming in the amount and detail of information it provided.
Yes, I will work on this. I'm very sorry to hear you're so frustrated. May I ask why you didn't you say something sooner? PassPorter's success is dependent on feedback!
So, to make sure I understand, do you just want the word "custom" as an option in each menu?
If you want to be able to create a custom-named item in a menu, that requires a bit more work. Right now, each of the menu items exist in a database. I could allow people to ADD items to a database for the various options. It would require that you first add the item to the database, and then add the item to your itinerary -- so a two-step process. Do you think that would work?
Being able to a create a custom named item would be great but adding a custom name to a database would also work. I didn't say anything sooner because even with this planner I'd still use my old school planner notebook and apps on my phone (calendar, TripIt etc.) too so it wasn't critical to my ability to plan. And I do truly love Passporter not only does it help me plan trips to Disney but the forums have become my online home for support, laughs and information. I think what finally prompted me to say something was buying my all access Live Guide pass it seems like they'd be wonderful to use in conjunction with each other.
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