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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

BankPipe development

14 May 2018 Edited
#1

Upcoming version checklist


CROSS MARK request refund from within the UCP, accept or deny refunds from within the ACP
CROSS MARK include required fields in PM. Requested by @andrewjs18
CROSS MARK add separate module for notifications. Requested by @andrewjs18 in order confirmation pm/email changes
CROSS MARK buy Newpoints as items. Requested by @ProX in Newpoints and Bankpipe
CROSS MARK user-defined variable amount for subscriptions. Requested by @RocketFoot in User specified donation amount
CROSS MARK Hide Bankpipe on ACP for other admin. Requested by @Dr.Jeet
CROSS MARK filter by item in ACP. Requested by @Dr.Jeet
CROSS MARK Removal of one item from cart show You currently have no items in your shopping cart. Reported by @Dr.Jeet

WARNING SIGN There is no ETA. Please refrain to ask when the new version is out. The checklist might not be emptied before a new version is released. A WHITE HEAVY CHECK MARK mark indicates the item has been implemented and/or fixed.
tedem, Dr.Jeet, milpress And 5 others like this post
Shade 14 Oct 2019
#21
Yes, but still working on things.
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Shade 15 Oct 2019
#22
FYI many items in the checklist have been cleared during the last couple of days. The remaining most demanding ones are the notification system rewrite and treating newpoints as items.
ProX 16 Oct 2019
#23
Great progress Shade. What would be the ETA for next release?
Shade 17 Oct 2019
#24
Hard to set one. I’d say 2 weeks but my schedule is constantly changing so it might be 5 days or 1 month.
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ProX 21 Oct 2019
#25
That sounds like a reasonable time frame.
Shade 14 Nov 2019
#26
Most items have been cleared from the current to-do list. Rewriting the notification system is quite demanding, and might be shifted to the first release candidate scheduled after beta 8. This is true also for Newpoints as I need to perform some brainstorming about a modules design for future extensibility.

At this point, I'd say beta 8 can be feature-locked and released within the week.
ProX 18 Nov 2019
#27
Adding newpoints to the core, would that be less complicated? (As 9/10 users from here are using it, and 95% of mybb community).

Structure:

Dynamically add settings when checked - enable mybb newpoints shop.
Dynamically create items and add their cost + newpoints to get.
Insert query statement after successful payment to user id + points.
Shade 18 Nov 2019
#28
Yes, that would be less complicated, but I don't want to include it in the core as I don't think there's such a high usage percentage, and having a module loader would ease off the work for future integrations as well. I have had some unexpected duties in the last couple of days so beta 8 will come out soon.
Shade 21 Nov 2019 Edited
#29
Sneak peek of beta 8 running on my localhost:

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The new version feels very complete and clean. A new more professional cart interface has been sneaked in last minute. Polishing up this evening, will surely be out by the end of the week. Thanks to everyone who has contributed by requesting new features and reporting bugs.
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ProX 22 Nov 2019
#30
Can you post a screenshot of a separated page for items?