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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

Reply by Email plugin

18 Dec 2019
#1
I am looking for a way to allow users to reply to existing threads, and start new threads, by email, for my forum www.nzarchitecture.net.nz

This forum migrated from Yahoo Groups. and many of my users still prefer the immediacy of email, and dislike logging in so much that they are only willing to participate in discussions if they can continue to use email.

Normal web based forum users who do not want their contributions broadcast by email meanwhile should have a tick box option to have their content swapped for an url linking to that content on the website - so only logged in users can ever see it.

Email coming and going should be scanned for spam and any malware attachments

Image and PDF attachments should be possible, subject to size limits

Email functionality should only be available to registered users

Only new comments in an email received (eg posted above a line in the email) should be added to the web based thread - not a repeat of every previous comment in the thread

Some ability to control frequency/stop/start email on per person basis would be good. Perhaps integrating a digest option (I already have a custom plugin doing email digests - but no way currently to reply to that via email)

Happy to discuss anything
Shade 18 Dec 2019
#2
Hi, I will add this to my to-do list but it's pretty long so don't expect it within 6-7 months. If completed, this will be an Advanced-tier plugin.