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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

Current bugs - beta 1

28 Oct 2019 Edited
#1
This issue is marked as solved
1. Notification text for new private messages has an error that needs to be changed from pmid to convid.

It seems like global.php needs a change
from pm.pmid
to something like pm.convid as pmid

Then global.lang.php needs change from pmid to convid

global.php
https://github.com/mybb/mybb/blob/84a63e...l.php#L854

global.lang.php
https://github.com/mybb/mybb/blob/bc287e...g.php#L410
https://github.com/mybb/mybb/blob/bc287e...g.php#L411

2. The default avatar is not set if the user has no avatar.
This is how I fixed it
if(empty($user['avatar'])) {
$user['avatar'] = '/images/default_avatar.png';
}
3. The user can't send PM via /private.php?action=send&uid=1

PS: Shade is it necessary to have both symposium and old private message table, because it is doubling the size of sql for private messages?
Shade 28 Oct 2019 Edited
#2
I've fixed number 2 and 3 already in my local version. I'm going to fix the first as well soon.

Yes, it's necessary. Symposium does not save PMs, but relies on the old table to display and handle messages. Symposium's tables are basically just metadata and are necessary to associate each PM with its own conversation. Each convo has an unique hash generated by the sorted array of participants.

Size should not be doubled though, as Symposium just saves the last message per each conversation per each user; also most of the VPS/hosting allow unlimited or very high storage caps so it shouldn't be much of an issue.