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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

subscription usergroup settings

11 Aug 2020
#1
@Shade,

as discussed in discord, the subscription user group stuff could use some cleaning up and/or fixing. To me, it's really confusing how it is, honestly.

for example, if user 1 is initially in the registered user group and subscribes to subscription ABC, it'll put him in the XYZ user group, per the subscription settings. when said user's subscription expires (assuming they didn't renew it), it'll demote them to a different user group, if it's set up as such. if the user then resubscribes later, whether manually or through the system (I think), it'll put their old user group as their additional user group and make their primary user group as whatever is set up in the subscription. this is incredibly confusing and it could lead to permission flaws...

what happens if the additional user group has more powerful permissions than their primary?

I hope this isn't too confusing...haha
Shade 12 Aug 2020
#2
In my opinion it’s not that confusing, it just needs a setting to let you decide if the prior primary usergroup is “backed up” to the additional array or not.
andrewjs18 12 Aug 2020
#3
In my opinion it’s not that confusing, it just needs a setting to let you decide if the prior primary usergroup is “backed up” to the additional array or not.
Shade (12 Aug 2020)
I'm just not sure of the need for bankpipe to even bother with the additional user groups anyways to begin with, especially when one wasn't set up prior to subscribing to something through the plugin.
Fanatica Greats 15 Aug 2020
#4
Well i see your point :/