Linux-Is-Best

There is no shame in that at all. You worked hard, contributed to society as a productive member, and now have earned the right to your joyful retirement.  If I recall correctly (from memory), your forum is a personal joy (hobby) you enjoy tinkering with. I hope you go on to enjoying your community for years to come, and while your goal may not be to attract members far and wide, I do wish you success.
Finding a hosting provider you are happy with, in the long run, is all that matters. If Nimbus fulfills your needs, even if they are a bit costly and you're happy with their service, perhaps they are the right host for you.  But should you in the future wish to see affordable alternatives, I am sure there are many people here who can give you some suggestions (canspace.ca and hostxnow.com both come to mind).
Cheers, Davyc 😀

Unless I'm missing something here...just enable your group's "Can post HTML" setting, and then click the resulting 'Source' button in the Editor:

Nope not using SMTP using the built-in method - see below:

Not to worry though, I just removed the php.ini file and the system went on it's merry way.
I checked them out and I can get Nimbus for roughly the same price and it's UK based, as am I, with a little more movement on features.  I've used Nimbus in the past and they are really good and very professional, hence 'expensive' - at least for me they are when you're on your pension lol.  I never thought I'd be saying I'm an OAP lol, but here I am.

That was very kind and considerate of you to share your full robots.txt with the community. Thank you for being helpful. 👍

Like the suggestion 👍 
Jotting down :]

Tell us how you really feel 😆 
Lol jk. We are always striving to offer the best UX. I think it's worth mentioning that functionality and look will continue to improve in all areas of IC, including Achievements :] 
Fortunately, there's a bunch of options for all to stylize things to match their own taste (it may require a bit of extra work, but if anyone needs help please feel free to create a topic!). 

As a matter of opinion, I like the location of the badges. I feel far too many things are centered on "postbit" on most forums, which adds too much noise. The unification of everything neatly in its place means I often tune stuff out and forget something is there. Introducing a little harmless chaos to the layout gives the site character and makes it more attractive. If someone wanted it centered, they could perform a template edit or perhaps use some CSS. But I, for one, like the location 'as is.' 
 
As for the coloring of the badges, I believe that depends on the avatar. Where it is located can cause a bit of a color clash depending on what your avatar looks like. I am using Linux (openSUSE Tumbleweed) with Mozilla Firefox ( Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0 ) and find no real issue. But for argument's sake, attached are a few random screenshots. 







Upon uploading my attached (see post above), I notice they look a little rough around the edges. But this being an alpha, I do not presume the images used were of HD quality, merely proof of concept.

Just a little suggestion about 'Who's Online'
For example:
Who is Online: 3 Members, 0 Anonymous, 20 Guests
 
If there is no anonymous user, system must hide it automatically like:
Who is Online: 3 Members, 20 Guests
 
or if there are only  guests on forum:
 Who is Online: 20 Guests
 
It'll be a little better, right?

Those functions are rarely needed and very dangerous.
You are putting electrical tape over the check engine light on your car, and then complaining that the light is the defect instead of the oil leak. Or putting the anal probe directly into the interstellar mouth socket. One of those.
Installing some other software on the same server is not resolving your problem. Other software may not do you the courtesy of warning you that there is a problem, but the problem is global to all PHP based applications.
You seem to think because your other car doesn't come equipped with air bags that a new one with air bags obviously has a terrible defect that makes it crash spontaneously into walls. So you'll drive the old one because that's safer....

Changing disable_functions at your account level on a shared server (and in may PHP configurations won't work because they're core directives) is not really seeing the point of these warnings. They're there because those methods could also potentially be used by other accounts on your server to exploit your data by bypassing the typical directory protections in PHP/open_basedir.
They're as much about protecting your community and your data from other sites that may get exploited on the same server.

You ever tried speaking to the non English talking help at Namecheap? I would rather try to give a Great White Shark a root canal!

If you can't change your php configuration (possibly you are on shared hosting) then add the following to a Notepad file and name it php.ini
disable_functions = exec, system, passthru, pcntl_exec, popen, proc_open, shell_exec display_errors = off If your host allows for recursive php.ini files then you only need to upload to your root, if not you will need to upload to all folders 🙂

Ah! Yes, this message is a warning to you that your server's PHP configuration is unnecessarily vulnerable to being used by individuals and/or organizations looking to exploit and hack your site. Why? Well, most obviously, for alien mind control purposes. It's the only conclusion that makes sense.

The functions that are called out are not at all used by IPS and are incredibly dangerous to leave enabled. It is a security best practice that you should absolutely ensure you're heeding the advice of. They are commonly used to infiltrate web sites and steal data or worse.
If your host does not have the ability to modify your PHP configuration for you to disable those functions, my recommendation would be that you find another host. IPS will work just fine with the functions enabled, yet the warning is there for you as an administrator to remind you that you have left unnecessary risk in your install.
You may be able to disable functions using the php_value stanza in an .htaccess file, yet I would strongly advise you to disable this from your php configuration file. If you are using cPanel or the like, I'm sure there's a mechanism to do this. You want a web host where you at the very least are running in a chrooted environment and have the ability to modify the configuration of your PHP instance in a manner that does not affect others using the same web host or server.

That’s to do with your server. Speak to your host with the errors shown and they will correct it for you.
God save us.. 😂

Getting ready to install it..Will copy and paste the error if it's still there.

Look, @Daniel F..... we have to admit defeat. AlienOrigins obviously knows we're deep in the pockets with big PHP and have never touched this stuff in our lives. We are no match for his deductive reasoning skills.

Hi @AlienOrigins,
could you please explain your issue?
 
I'm using it daily, in fact I'm also handling the dev tickets so I'm aware of almost all the common issues and bugs our clients run into and I can tell you that we're not aware of any email issues in the software.

It's really hard to say if your issue was fixed without knowing what it is. Are you talking about  https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/457795-email_test_mailfunction_disabled/?tab=comments#comment-2825231 ?

Have you tried the recent IPS release?If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? 
 

It's totally still there. Good luck.

Maybe this?
Did you report an issue via support? What did they say?

Which error? Help people without crystal ball.

You would need to provide details from PHP's error logging to determine what went wrong and what the appropriate solution would be.
The two most likely culprits are:
Necessary PHP extensions that are not installed on your server Insufficient allocation of memory to PHP on your server Your server error message log will tell you which is the problem.
To answer your question, neither the extensions required have been reduced, nor has the memory footprint of IPS been reduced. If your host is underpowered for IPS and you cannot change hosting providers or increase the amount of resources allocated to your site, IPS may not be the best fit for you.
You may want to consider IPS' Cloud offering if server administration is something you're not interested in.

I use Amazon SES on all my sites, cheapest. I use it with:
and
 

You can exclude duplicates by using following rules:
Disallow: /*do=* Disallow: /*sort=* Disallow: /*sortby=* Disallow: /*csrf=* Disallow: /*csrfKey=* Disallow: */?tab=* Disallow: */?_fromLogin=* Disallow: */?_fromLogout=* My entire robots.txt https://hoilik.com/robots-txt-for-invision-community-473d8aa32984

BTW, if you're hosted with us, you're of course able to create the robots.txt too 🙂
 
Just mentioning it here for our cloud clients which probably run into this topic.. 🙂

You can easily create a robots.txt files with wildcards:
Check the section: "How to Use wildcards in robots.txt" here: An SEO's Guide to Robots.txt, Wildcards, the X-Robots-Tag and Noindex (builtvisible.com) for example.
To prevent the report URL or other sections being indexed we use this e.g.: 
Disallow: /*?do=reportComment* Disallow: /*?do=add As the robots.txt file is very site and version specific and there are other methods, see article mentioned above, I think every site owner has to create his own robots.txt file or "no index" mechanism.