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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

Sometimes Page Loads Forever

2 Jun 2020
#1
This issue is marked as solved
Symposium works really well for the most part, and the only issue I have occasionally is that sometimes when I send a message my page will simply continuously load forever unless I refresh it. When I refresh it, my message is shown as sent and all is well. The page loading bug also affects another member of mine.

How can I prevent this from happening again in the future?

Thanks!
Shade 2 Jun 2020
#2
This does not sound to depend on Symposium, but rather on your server response time.
Ant 3 Jun 2020
#3
@Shade I have a regular configuration with a decent VPS on DigitalOcean. I don't have any server response issues and the messaging system never had problems before. Any other suggestions?
Shade 3 Jun 2020
#4
Do you mind keeping a note on which pages does it happen, along with the message sent? I’ll look into it, but I can’t wrap my head around the reason why it should happen every now and then rather than consistently.

It might also be a temp issue with your own connection.
Ant 5 Jun 2020
#5
Some of the other devs have the same problem occasionally. It happens completely randomly every once in a while. You could be in a convo with someone and all of a sudden the page doesn't stop loading - then you have to refresh and update your page. The only problem this occurs is in the actual messaging page immediately when you click Send Message.
Shade 6 Jun 2020
#6
Any relevant error.log output?