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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

Some ideas/suggestions

5 Aug 2019
#1
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Ideas and suggestions for BankPipe I have.

1. Adding a custom page for subscriptions where you can for example add vertical or horizontal layout with item and description + add to cart button. (Example: https://i.postimg.cc/7hkxMLyy/image-242.png)
2. Add fast checkout button. For example when click add to cart, next to it should be checkout button instead of clicking link cart and then checkout.
3. Gift upgrade to user. If I want to upgrade my friend, there should be an option to "Gift this" or something where you can enter someone's username and they will receive an upgrade if they don't have it.
Shade 5 Aug 2019
#2
2 and 3 are great ideas. Added to BankPipe development.

I am not sure about the first one. You can already tweak templates and achieve something like that. If you want to have different things listed on a subscription basis, you can add your HTML in each subscription's option (it's named "HTML description", so it's pretty straightforward).
ProX 5 Aug 2019
#3
2 and 3 are great ideas. Added to BankPipe development.

I am not sure about the first one. You can already tweak templates and achieve something like that. If you want to have different things listed on a subscription basis, you can add your HTML in each subscription's option (it's named "HTML description", so it's pretty straightforward).
Shade (5 Aug 2019)
Glad to hear. I mean can we have a page named for example subscriptions.php or something like that, instead of having a usercp.php action page. A fully separated page for it only.
Shade 5 Aug 2019
#4
So it can be seen also by guests you mean?
ProX 5 Aug 2019 Edited
#5
So it can be seen also by guests you mean?
Shade (5 Aug 2019)
It should be permission based in ACP. Selectable usergroup array for groups which can access to that page. It's for better readability. Instead of having UCP page with `bankpipe.php`, why not having `/upgrade.php` or `/gateway.php` page with subscription options without sidebar as well since it's not UCP.

PS: Hence why fast checkout button needs to be added here :P

Edit: This is already doable with rewrite urls, but just adding as suggestion to those who want a straight separate page for it.
Shade 5 Aug 2019
#6
I see. Not much of a big deal. Added to BankPipe development.
ProX 5 Aug 2019
#7
Great. Now the next release will have a really great flavors to it.
ProX 7 Aug 2019
#8
@Shade One more suggestion here.

Adding compatibility with ougc awards, where users can buy with real money awards which you select from bankpipe panel. For example, it will load all created ougc awards and only selected can be purchased via real money.
Shade 7 Aug 2019
#9
I can't take all third party plugins suggestions, otherwise BankPipe will need to be updated every time a third party plugin is updated as well. I think I will just create a core module to create items with a couple of hooks there, and publish bundles for each third party plugin on request (including Newpoints).
ProX 7 Aug 2019
#10
I can't take all third party plugins suggestions, otherwise BankPipe will need to be updated every time a third party plugin is updated as well. I think I will just create a core module to create items with a couple of hooks there, and publish bundles for each third party plugin on request (including Newpoints).
Shade (7 Aug 2019)
Sounds like a great idea.