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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

Feature requests

15 May 2018 Edited
#1
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@Shade,

I think some of these features would be great for bankpipe!

1- ability for an admin (configurable in the admin cp via uid) to get a PM/email when someone subscribes to a plan you have set up

2- when someone subscribes, require fields (customizable) to be filled out and submitted. these fields should be sent along with the pm/email an admin gets when someone new subscribes
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andrewjs18 15 May 2018
#2
another feature which might not be a bad idea....

with another plugin I use, I have the ability to copy myself in on the PM/emails it sends out. I like doing this so I know that a PM/email was definitely sent out to a user.
katos 15 May 2018
#3
I think I’d also like having the ability to use it without a subscription model. So for example having a marketplace and accepting payments through this, but the site admin can set their PayPal to take a small cut of the payment (configurable in ACP) ?
Shade 15 May 2018
#4
Thank you for purchasing and using BankPipe. Your requests have been accepted and will be included in beta 2.

@katos: not sure what you mean. BankPipe already supports attachments; @Harry K. suggested adding a coupon system which will be added in the future too, is this what you are requesting?
Harry K. 15 May 2018
#5
I think he means more of what MyDownloads has, separate from posts - a directory of "products" which can have their own pages with previews, descriptions ect.. With the added ability to add a percentage cut from user submitted downloads when they are purchased.

I'm not fussed either way, I'm happy using posts - could try use X-Threads to spice them up if you wanted. A marketplace type thing would be nice, but would basically be MyDownloads updated.
katos 16 May 2018
#6
I think he means more of what MyDownloads has, separate from posts - a directory of "products" which can have their own pages with previews, descriptions ect.. With the added ability to add a percentage cut from user submitted downloads when they are purchased.

I'm not fussed either way, I'm happy using posts - could try use X-Threads to spice them up if you wanted. A marketplace type thing would be nice, but would basically be MyDownloads updated.
Harry K. (15 May 2018)
This is precisely what I meant, but I feel the functionality and modernness of BankPipe may well do a better job
Shade 21 Jun 2018 Edited
#7
I have written down the preliminary code for notifications, I am waiting for PayPal Sandbox to be back online (their services are disrupted at the moment and I cannot test the integration properly).

As for custom fields to be sent along notifications, I have looked into it and there is a major issue going on with it, as PayPal limits the amount of custom data you can send, and BankPipe already sends a relatively big one (user/item identifiers). I'm going to experiment some fancy alternatives, but it's unlikely this feature will be implemented in beta 2.

Regarding payout cuts, PayPal used to hold Adaptive Payments but they have limited it to a restricted user basis, so unfortunately I can't integrate this feature into BankPipe.

I have also added a sorting functionality to the Payment history panel, so you can filter out payments by username or dates, and receive an instant feedback about the total revenue.

Last but not least, a copy of sent PMs is saved by default in the sender's PM box already.