CheersnGears

Just so no one misunderstands this: the slowness comes from initiating the SMTP connection while certain actions like replying to a topic with followers are performed. It is not related to AWS. All external SMTP services will show that problem unless IPS moves those mails to a background task for all situations. 

Hi,

Is this compatible with 4.7?

Thank you

It should be done this week 🙂

@Jordan Miller You raise some interesting and valid points in your posts, but you always refer your attention to 'business' and forget that there are thousands of hobbyist clients who tend to get left out.  It may not be your intention to do so, but whenever you post something it always includes the word 'business'.  This may seem like nitpicking and IPS may be more focussed on business clients, but there are others who contribute to the IPS coffers.  It may be prudent to be more inclusive so those who created the foundation for IPS are not left feeling out.
To the point of your post.  As a hobbyist and someone who enjoys the experience of a forum based site (at present I get more of a kick from the creation aspect rather that the using thereafter) the drag of SM is the sore point when it comes to generating interest and contributors.  It's not that what we hobbyists do that may appear uninteresting, it's getting people off the SM wagon into a new environment.  There are probably numerous contributing factors that may lie at the root cause for this lack of interest, but that is the big issue for hobbyists.  Finding a niche that has not been covered already and has sufficient interest from a large number of people to get the ball rolling is really tough, and it doesn't matter what software is employed in a new venture; WordPress, IPS, Xenforo, Simple Machines, MyBB the list goes on.
Using SM to generate interest is a non-starter.  I use Twitter to promote my site and my Tweets drive traffic because what I post is apparently of interest, but it's a one way ticket because the people consume the content and then return to Twitter to comment on it rather than register and comment directly at the source.
I doubt that I'm alone in this parody of high interest on SM but low interest in registering at the source of the interest.  It's a symptom of the way people engage in this day-and-age.  It seems as though it's an effort to go through the short process of registering.  The other factor could also be that they are not interested in spending time learning how to use a system that may appear to be cumbersome to use on their mobile devices.
Sign of the times perhaps.

My pain points are largely in creating/editing articles.  I use Pages largely as a news and reviews page and the forums piggyback off of that.   I have no trouble finding content to create, for my niche it is a veritable firehose to stand in front of, but getting it created in Pages with the right format is tedious.
I'd love:
a better method for placing pictures, setting alt text, setting captions. More options for what a gallery looks like when I place a link to one. See @opentype's SuperReviews as one example of what I'd like to do, but with the Gallery system. Multi-column formatting Some sort of widget or block system where I can place an Ad widget inline with the text. Compatibility with Grammerly - Seriously, it's a pain to write it in Word so the article gets checked with Grammerly and then cut-paste-format into Pages. A lot of my slow-down with generating content.  There is so much of it everyday that I have to pick and choose, but getting it posted is painful.
I'd argue that the forum in IPS software is largely feature complete and any improvements would be just slightly incremental.  Pages, Gallery, Clubs, is where attention is sorely needed.
I said here many years ago that IPS has the potential to be the paid Wordpress beater if Pages was improved. I still see that potential.

My pain points are largely in creating/editing articles.  I use Pages largely as a news and reviews page and the forums piggyback off of that.   I have no trouble finding content to create, for my niche it is a veritable firehose to stand in front of, but getting it created in Pages with the right format is tedious.
I'd love:
a better method for placing pictures, setting alt text, setting captions. More options for what a gallery looks like when I place a link to one. See @opentype's SuperReviews as one example of what I'd like to do, but with the Gallery system. Multi-column formatting Some sort of widget or block system where I can place an Ad widget inline with the text. Compatibility with Grammerly - Seriously, it's a pain to write it in Word so the article gets checked with Grammerly and then cut-paste-format into Pages. A lot of my slow-down with generating content.  There is so much of it everyday that I have to pick and choose, but getting it posted is painful.
I'd argue that the forum in IPS software is largely feature complete and any improvements would be just slightly incremental.  Pages, Gallery, Clubs, is where attention is sorely needed.
I said here many years ago that IPS has the potential to be the paid Wordpress beater if Pages was improved. I still see that potential.

I use the option of Pages creating the Topics for comments to do two things at once.  Even with shorter stuff because there's the Article which I want/need to promote and the forums for the chatter about said article.  I am in several Press guilds and while I'm not published in MotorTrend or Car & Driver, I do rub elbows with them and would like my articles to look professional and not just a post on a forum.
I'll select some articles to share tomorrow.

I use the option of Pages creating the Topics for comments to do two things at once.  Even with shorter stuff because there's the Article which I want/need to promote and the forums for the chatter about said article.  I am in several Press guilds and while I'm not published in MotorTrend or Car & Driver, I do rub elbows with them and would like my articles to look professional and not just a post on a forum.
I'll select some articles to share tomorrow.

I use the option of Pages creating the Topics for comments to do two things at once.  Even with shorter stuff because there's the Article which I want/need to promote and the forums for the chatter about said article.  I am in several Press guilds and while I'm not published in MotorTrend or Car & Driver, I do rub elbows with them and would like my articles to look professional and not just a post on a forum.
I'll select some articles to share tomorrow.

I mean, you could still do unmanaged with WHM/Cpanel. 
I'd also not build a new server on CentOS 7.  When I did a new server back in March, step 1 was upgrading Cent7 to Alma before Cpanel went on.  
I prefer cpanel simply for the convenience.

Are you sure you want an unmanaged server?  I roll my own and some of the questions you're asking are fairly basic server setup related.   Respectfully, while it may cost more, rolling your own with CPanel may be more your speed because it can handle a lot of this stuff for you.

it looks correct, but put the final </div> on its own line for clarity.

Do you not know how to use Div?
Don't put this in your templates manually.  Put it in the Advertising section in the Admin panel System-> Site Promotion -> Advertisements.

How is it broken? It is exactly where you put it.  If you want it centered, you need a Div align center.
<div align="center"> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: "your pub ID", enable_page_level_ads: true }); </script> </div>  

@Igor Denisov it is not difficult to get Adsense set up.

@bradybarrows I highly recommend the Cleantalk plug-in. The service is $8 a year and it has a feature to allow you to block by country of IP address origin. It has been a massive relief for me.
I have no affiliation with Cleantalk except as a longtime happy customer.
 

I have moved this over to our suggestions forum, as thats a suggestion to change this behaviour, rather than a support issue

Thank you.  Some of my images didn't make it back onto my server after a move down from S3.  They're still on S3, so I'm just moving them back up and then back down in an attempt to get them all in the right place.

CMS Records would hold any attachments uploaded to the record itself through a field.

Done:

We just get the Processing circle.
 

The function appears to work.  The issue is that it never comes to a completion.  It just continues on and on until the site itself times out.

I'm good with anything that just works and where you aren't blocking the use of Grammarly... a service I pay for to assist with my um... ongoing typo issues.

You can set the write permissions via constants:
 
'IPS_FOLDER_PERMISSION' => 0777, // Writeable folders 'FOLDER_PERMISSION_NO_WRITE' => 0755, // Non-writeable folders 'IPS_FILE_PERMISSION' => 0666, // Writeable files 'FILE_PERMISSION_NO_WRITE' => 0644, // Non-writeable files  

They've gotten me before too.  I put all members in a New Members group and they need to post a certain amount of content before they can send more than 2 PMs.
Thanks. I'm adding it to my CleanTalk ban list
Edit: CleanTalk wouldn't allow me to add it because it was already part of my ban on Russian Federation IPs.
I do recommend CleanTalk