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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

Infinite Scrolling

9 Dec 2016
#1
I remember reading you were working on infinite scrolling for MyBB, similar to Flarum's. Do you still have plans for this or is it just a personal project? In my opinion Flarum has created a nearly perfect replacement for pagination. To see this on MyBB would be amazing.
Shade 9 Dec 2016
#2
I've started working on something similar to Flarum's infinite scrolling, but I'm struggling to overcome some technical challenges which imply detection of scrolling. Once these are addressed I'm going to set up an alpha testing here on MyBBoost.
Eldenroot 10 Dec 2016
#3
There is a plugin from @Wildcard, but still in a beta stage. I havent tested
https://github.com/WildcardSearch/ScrollOn
Shade 10 Dec 2016
#4
The main differences from @Wildcard's will be the chance to scroll in both directions and support for threads other than posts. But it's a long way to go.
Eldenroot 10 Dec 2016
#5
@Shade - yeah, I know that the mentioned plugin is not perfect...
Brenda 11 Dec 2016 Edited
#6
What does this do though? Can someone explain how this infinite scrolling works?
Shade 11 Dec 2016
#7
Simple enough, it replaces the normal navigation with pages to a smooth single-page using AJAX to retrieve posts from the surrounding pages.
Brenda 11 Dec 2016
#8
Thanks, that sounds pretty interesting.
Eldenroot 11 Dec 2016
#9
It is something what you can find in Flarum board. It is really useful, no pagination is needed.
Shade 13 Dec 2016 Edited
#10
Just to let you know, I've overcame the aforementioned issues. On my way to sync the scrolling phase with the data gathering and displaying.