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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

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17 Nov 2017 Edited
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gbk 23 Jul 2018
#11
hi @Shade
any news about this one?
Shade 23 Jul 2018
#12
I have still to begin working on this. BankPipe got the upper end and I need to work out some issues with ThunderBoard before digging deep into a conversation system. I will let you know once I start.
gbk 30 Mar 2019
#13
hi @Shade
have you find any chance to look into this one? i believe that at this time the most wanted thing for mybb forums is a conversation system.
Shade 30 Mar 2019
#14
Not yet. BankPipe got most of my spare time, and I have been back to studying lately. I hope to find some time after my to-do list is cleared.