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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

demoting users after expired subscriptions

4 Jan 2019 Edited
#1
This issue is marked as solved
it seems as though when bankpipe demotes a user after they failed to renew their subscription, rather than changing their primary user group to the newly demoted usergroup, it'll just change their secondary usergroup as the demoted user group and leave their primary user group as it was originally. this kind of defeats the purpose of demoting a user account.

also, it seems like bankpipe changes the 'display user group' option from 'use primary user group' to the actual user group the user was originally in.

ideally if a user was demoted, it'd change their primary user group to the demoted user group and have the display user group set as 'use primary user group' so it's not confusing.
Shade 5 Jan 2019
#2
Got to check that as well, because as I designed it initially, it should reflect each subscription’s type of upgrade - meaning that if the user is upgraded by changing the primary usergroip, he will be demoted by changing the primary group as well. And the option change suggests me that maybe I screwed this up somehow. Will get back at you ASAP.
andrewjs18 5 Jan 2019
#3
thank you, @Shade
Shade 5 Jan 2019
#4
I can confirm BankPipe changes the displaygroup option. But it also switches the user back to the original group according to how the subscription's option is set. There's no other way it could revert the display group other than changing the primary group to the same value. Mind to check again? By looking at the database dump you sent me the other day, the user should have been moved to the usergroup with gid "13". If it has another primary group, I'm quite confident something else might have changed it.
andrewjs18 6 Jan 2019 Edited
#5
I can confirm BankPipe changes the displaygroup option. But it also switches the user back to the original group according to how the subscription's option is set. There's no other way it could revert the display group other than changing the primary group to the same value. Mind to check again? By looking at the database dump you sent me the other day, the user should have been moved to the usergroup with gid "13". If it has another primary group, I'm quite confident something else might have changed it.
Shade (5 Jan 2019)
here's my subscription:
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the expected functionality is different than what's listed in the description, at least for the expiry usergroup.
personally I think it the same user group (primary) should be changed when someone buys a subscription and when it also expires. it shouldn't change the 'display user group' option at all, I don't think.
Shade 6 Jan 2019
#6
Indeed, this is the expected behavior and it should already work like this (except for the display group which is also changed when the primary is changed).
andrewjs18 6 Jan 2019
#7
Indeed, this is the expected behavior and it should already work like this (except for the display group which is also changed when the primary is changed).
Shade (6 Jan 2019)
why is the display group changed though? why not just keep it set to the mybb default of "use primary user group"?
Shade 6 Jan 2019
#8
The problem is that the display option may be changed by the user himself, so there would be a mismatch if it's set to – let's say – the Merchant group, and then BankPipe changes the primary group to Ex Merchants. I can probably edit it in a way that it changes the option just when it's different from "Use primary group" though.
andrewjs18 6 Jan 2019
#9
The problem is that the display option may be changed by the user himself, so there would be a mismatch if it's set to – let's say – the Merchant group, and then BankPipe changes the primary group to Ex Merchants. I can probably edit it in a way that it changes the option just when it's different from "Use primary group" though.
Shade (6 Jan 2019)
mybb allows users to change their display groups on their own?

it might be best to add a yes/no setting so that an admin can decide whether it wants to allow bankpipe to alter which display user group is displayed. I know on my site, if it's even possible (I'm not seeing it as an option in my user cp on the mybb community forums), I do not allow anyone to modify their display group without admin interaction.
Shade 6 Jan 2019
#10
Yes, as long as you can access the usergroup manager in the UCP, you can change the display group as an user.