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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

Suggestion - Compatibility with "login as" plugin

25 Aug 2020 Edited
#1
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Hello, symposium is really the best plugin I ever seen for private messaging for mybb, maybe the best plugin of all plugins :) Shade you are a god of mybb plugins dev ^^
But here's my idea :
I'm using "Login as" plugin so administrators can be logged in as any user, symposium is actually still blocking the user from seing their private conversation (when being logged as another member throught the plugin), it would be nice to have some kinf of compatiblity with "login as" plugin or maybe just disable user check for administrators so only they can see any conversations ?

Thank you.
Shade 25 Aug 2020
#2
Symposium does not act as a core replacement, rather integrates within it; as such, third party plugins should be fully compatible.

With "Login as", AFAIK, you can log in any user but can't see the user PMs for privacy and ethical reasons. The same ethics, of course, apply to Symposium, and I cannot make any exception for that.
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Aristide Chypre 28 Aug 2020
#3
"Login as" permit admins to view any member's pm without symposium.
It's sure that it is not very ethical but I do not consider my forum as a good place for private conversation (there is much better encrypted service for this). It's just that sometimes when there's a conflict between members it is a really helpfull tool to see what they told each other (scammers hunting).
Shade 28 Aug 2020
#4
If it’s allowed by Login as, Symposium should be compatible.
Aristide Chypre 28 Aug 2020 Edited
#5
My bad it comes from newer version of Login as, I did use it before and wrongly thought it was symposium blocking this (did not want to deactivate to try on live board :/) sorry for the mistake.