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 The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.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

Support Libravatar

27 Jan 2018
#1
Homepage: https://www.libravatar.org/

Libravatar is like gravatar but focused on being Free (as in Freedom.)

I would love to see a plugin that implements this.
Shade 27 Jan 2018
#2
Seems fairly quick and easy. Unfortunately I'm not currently available due to uni commitments till mid February, but your request has been accepted and will be fulfilled in some days after my return.
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Shade 16 Feb 2018
#3
I will have some time tomorrow and sunday to fulfill this.
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Shade 17 Feb 2018
#4
By looking into Libravatar's API I have realized it uses Gravatar to back off if the user does not have any Libravatar image. Since MyBB already supports Gravatar, a plugin is not needed for this; you just have to change this line (usercp.php) to:

"avatar" => "https://seccdn.libravatar.org/avatar/{$email}{$s}"
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MichaelW 3 Mar 2018
#5
By looking into Libravatar's API I have realized it uses Gravatar to back off if the user does not have any Libravatar image. Since MyBB already supports Gravatar, a plugin is not needed for this; you just have to change this line (usercp.php) to:

"avatar" => "https://seccdn.libravatar.org/avatar/{$email}{$s}"
Shade (17 Feb 2018)
Huh, I didn't know that.

Thanks for checking it out anyway :)