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Farewell

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I announce that I cease all development and activity in the programming universe indefinitely. My career has reached the turning point I was not expecting for at least another year, leaving me highly off guard and without laid-out plans for this hobby's continuity. I have begun a 5-year residency program in Neurosurgery which is clearly not compatible, time-wise, with programming.

I gave in all my passion for developing, and you gave me back your loyalty and trust, even when I did not deserve that much. Now it is the time for payback. I release all my present and past work as Open Source software, in the hope some talented developer will continue maintaining and expanding my vision of a modern, sleek forum software. The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.

I hereby thank Euan, kawaii, andrewjs18, Ben, Matt, Omar G., effone, Eric J., Devilshakerz, Wildcard, JordanMussi and all the other team members I have had the opportunity to work with when I was a MyBB team member. I thank Tomm M, my mentor, who inspired me to pick up coding with his piece-of-art plugins. And finally, I thank all of you MyBBoost subscribers who have helped me getting through my toughest university years economically.

Yours sincerely, Filippo

Away until end of July

27 Apr 2017
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Unfortunately I have to announce that I will officially pause development of new and old plugins for at least 3 months due to incoming exams. The upcoming exams session is crucial for my studies (as if I fail I won't be able to move on with them), and it will probably be crucial for my MyBB involvement too.

I have already worked on Flyover development and MyFacebook Connect 3.6 updates, and with some finishing touches they will be out soon. After their release, I am going to take a total break from the coding world until the end of July, after which I will be here willing to show off the plugin I have been working on since January, Endless preview, and other exciting news.

I will not stop answering your support questions but I will inevitably reply later than usual.
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