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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

Solved | Error 500 when converting pms (updating from 2 to 3)

8 Sep 2020
#1
This issue is marked as solved
I followed the update instructions, conversion failed at 50-60% with error 500

30000pms to convert in total
12500pms to convert after first fail
Error= Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 ()

11200pms after second fail
Error= jquery.js?ver=1823:2 POST https://example.com/admin/index.php?modu...ig-plugins 500
After that it keeps failing really often (but I can refresh & start conversion to continue, converting between 10 and 500pms then fail).

Seems to work when increasing Maximum PHP script run time (don't know why first time was working without changing this o.O)
By the way ETA is high (>1000minutes) compared to real conversion time.

Anyway I'm glad to see this update :D
Shade 8 Sep 2020
#2
Thank you for reporting this. Slow server responses might indeed block the script.

Since the conversion is stepwise, it should be ok to resume it if it fails mid-through. A good thing about Symposium is that you can uninstall it and go back to normal PMs at anytime, and back again to conversations by using the converter. So, if you experience odd behaviors in existing messages (eg.: last messages missing from conversations list), I'd suggest you to run the conversion again from scratch (uninstall, reinstall and convert).