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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

MyChat - But PMs Only?

17 Nov 2017 Edited
#1
Hopefully this is the right category, wasn't entirely sure. Anyhow.

It'd be really interesting seeing something similar to MyChat, except pretty much replacing PMs. Instead of the clunky default one where ya' end up with 50 different messages just being replies to the same conversation.

All your conversations are saved, you can click on who you'd like to start back up a conversation with to the left and have it instantly loaded up, or search for a user to start a new conversation with, which is highly efficient. You can private message users in this already, so that's out of the way.

Everything is pretty much already done when it comes to this.

All that really needs to be done is having it "replace" the default PM system of MyBB entirely, disabling global chat, and setting it so that messages from MyChat give inbox notifications similar to the default MyBB system. Of course this is probably a lot easier said than done.

I'm just throwing this idea out here, since I've looked around for something that could replace the current clunky MyBB PM system, but found no alternative, and realized this was the closest to it. I know you're a very busy person, with rarely any free time to even focus on your current projects. I'm just really curious on feedback with this, and if it's possible to begin with.
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.