Originally Posted By doppio I'm sad now. I didn't know any of these people in real life but they all seemed like friends any how. Good bye Mouseinfo, I certainly will miss you. Thankyou for all your hard work Michael and Jennifer. >>To All MouseInfo Members & Staff: Being huge Disney Fans Jennifer and I thought it would be great to open a Disney Web Site where we could provide information about Disney and have people from all around the world visit. We accomplished this for almost 10 years. Friday evening, the server took a turn for the worst. The sql software decided to die and I was unable to fix it. For the past six months, both Jennifer and I have been buried with life demands and that hasn't left us much time to devote to MouseInfo. Financially, it is costing us more than 5 thousand dollars a year just to have a server that can meet the demands for all the users visiting. Advertising revenue only cover a quarter percentage of our costs. So it is with deep regret that I have to announce that MouseInfo has been closed. We would like to thank all of the dedicated members and moderators. It is what YOU brought to MouseInfo that kept us open for all these years. I would like to invite all of you to visit the MySpace MouseInfo page for you to find your friends. We will miss you all! Michael & Jennifer
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Wow. That is surprising. And surprising to learn just how much it costs to run and operate a website like this and Mouseinfo. Kudos to Michael and Jennifer!
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x So does that mean that LP will be getting a huge influx of new users?
Originally Posted By CHRISTYCA Hi Doppio--I was a fellow MouseInfo person for over 7 years and now I feel displaced on finding a new home....after alot of research I will call Laughingplace.com my new home....It will take a lot of getting used to but since we all are Disney Fanatics I know this should be a fun place to be.....
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Welcome CHRISTYCA -- I also participated on MouseInfo. Welcome!
Originally Posted By DlandDug I am sorry to see any Disney fan site close. MouseInfo attracted a very pleasant community. I hope anyone looking for a new home on the web will feel welcome here.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Well, that was a surprise. I used to post there a lot, but hadn't posted there in a few months as it just sort of became predictable and rather staid, but I still popped in occasionally to see what was up. I'll miss "Marcie" and her hilarious spin on things the most. I imagine most of the MI regulars will drift over here for the most part, as I don't see them taking up residence on Micechat too easily. Still, it is surprising how quickly that website shut down and disappeared. I would have thought one or two other Disney websites (that will go un-named) would have gone first before Mouseinfo.
Originally Posted By DJ7K Welcome, ChristyCA! I don't know much about MI.com, but I think a lot of can empathize what its like finding a new home to adapt to no matter what the form. So I really hope you and fellow members of MI.com can find another good Disney home to come to here on LP. =)
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder I read somewhere not long ago that jonvn was a moderator at MouseInfo but they kept that quiet.
Originally Posted By jonvn I was, and it wasn't kept quiet. I know where you read that. It's not true.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "I was, and it wasn't kept quiet. I know where you read that. It's not true." I wish you would tell me then, because I forgot where I read it. "who cares if he was??" Apparently you don't, but I was simply making a comment, nothing more, nothing less.
Originally Posted By jonvn "I wish you would tell me then, because I forgot where I read it." Probably on Fab's board, because that was said there. I was in charge of the world events board, and there was nothing secret about it. You had to actually PM me a message at first to get on it (it was a separate subscription) and I had to approve it. I also wrote stickys in that forum telling people what their behavior had to be like in order to stay. So, unless you were about as dense as you could be, you probably could figure it out since I was flat out the only one running that section of the board.
Originally Posted By TP2000 You know who else I'll miss besides Marcie?... that guy from Tampa whose screen name I now forget. He used to get so wound up over the whole Disney World Vs. Disneyland thing, and it offered some hilarious threads. Oh well. But mostly I'll miss Marcie and her "insight".
Originally Posted By jonvn KNRG? He posts here as mousermerf. We're working on seeing what we can do with the site, too. There was no notice whatsoever to anyone. So, we're trying to figure out what we can do.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Yes, KNRG. My brain isn't as young as it used to be. I'd been on Mouseinfo for about six or seven years. I think I joined in mid '01 if I recall. Some fun threads were had over there. Although, again, I really stopped posting there regularly this past Fall for whatever reason. Only so many hours in the day. I wonder if Marcie will show up on another site? Although she had sort of fallen off the radar a year ago, with both her articles and her posting, and didn't offer much information for most of calendar year 2007. Still, she was so adamantly the "Anti-Al" for a few years there during the 50th era that her personality continued on even when her posts did not.
