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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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

advertisement plugin

31 Jul 2018 Edited
#1
@Shade

I'm looking for an advertisement plugin that'll hook into bankpipe to automate as much of the process as possible. I'm willing to pay for it, of course. I currently use my advertisements, so a lot of this stuff could be carried over, I think...some of this stuff was added to the plugin and paid for by me as it is anyways.

I'm hoping for these features:
- Name of banner
- Description of banner
- Exempt Groups
- Expiration (maybe add a calendar to select a date/time)
- Zones (default zones of header, postbit and footer, with the ability to create new zones)
- Advertisement code
- Email addresses to send expiration alert to
- Email subject
- Email message
- Ability to renew the banner with all of its settings if a user pays for another year (or whatever length of time)
- Ability to email out how an ad is performing (clicks, views, etc.) at set intervals. perhaps allow a user to download their data as well?

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added 8/21:

- allow users to upload their own banners and site urls (this should be locked until AFTER a user has paid for their banner)
- force maximum banner image sizes (for example, I allow 2 different sizes on my site - 400X80 for large banners, 285X85 for small banners)
- filter out image upload to only allow .jpg, .jpeg and .png extensions, or whatever the site admin specifies
- allow specific storage paths for the banners. I keep mine in 2 separate folders (ads/large, ads/small) based on their size
- allow admins to offload the image storage to something like imgur via an api
- compress uploaded images by using a free api, something like https://resmush.it/api or https://shortpixel.com/ or https://kraken.io/pricing

I'll add more as it comes to me!
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Shade 6 Aug 2018
#2
Accepted.
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andrewjs18 13 Aug 2018
#3
fantastic, I can't wait to try it out!
andrewjs18 21 Aug 2018
#4
added some more info to the OP based on the conversation we had in discord today.