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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

Ordering messages with most recent at top

24 Sep 2020
#1
Just installed Beta 3 and the plugin is working great. I just wanted to check if there was a way for me to change the order of messages within a conversation? If a conversation has lots of messages, the user has to scroll down quite a lot to read the most recent.
Shade 24 Sep 2020
#2
If your theme does not have any JavaScript error, Symposium scrolls automatically to the last message. I agree though that an option to order messages from bottom to top or the other way around might be ideal.
Liam Winn 24 Sep 2020
#3
Is there any way to accomplish this with custom edits within the code? Changing the select queries etc?
Shade 24 Sep 2020
#4
Quite easy. Find and remove in inc/plugins/symposium.php:

$rawMessages array_reverse($rawMessages); 
Note though that the date separators will break. For a complete fix, you will need to wait the next release. I've added this to Symposium development.
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