This site needs to join the "https" bandwagon

[MikeRobinson]

These days, my browser says about this site – "Not Secure."  Obviously, thanks to "letsencrypt.org" (and, as they intended ...), "https" has become the new normal, and this forum needs to follow suit.

 

Several of the hosting services that I commonly use now provide for this as a "just click the check-box and we'll do the rest" option.  So, the site owners might not have to do any setup, or periodic renewals, at all.

[Peggy]

Mike,

We have been using https for a long time on the forums. 

https://forums.songstuff.com

 

The main site is http. We're going to add https.

 

Peggy

 

[john]

The forums (the bit where members have accounts) has been https only for 2 years. It was both http and https for 4-5 years before that, with any sensitive areas https only. Now the whole forums subdomain is https only. If you look in the bottom right of every forums page you can see the GoDaddy secure site seal, which only appears if the security certificate is valid. In any browser I have used to test it (safari, IE, Chrome, Edge and a few others) the url bar also displays that it is https secure with a valid certificate.

 

The www site has no public accounts and so there was little urgency in making it https. That said it is still planned to make it https in the near future.

[MikeRobinson]

"Yep – I'm in the very same business too!"  😎

 

("Day job." ... sux ... When I'm not making music, you know ...)