This has been a long time coming but finally the site is running on HTTPS instead of good ol' insecure HTTP. The main benefit of this change is security. All data sent by you to the site, and from the site to you, is now encrypted and cannot be snooped or tampered with by potential "evil doers".
We've rolled out the change across the whole site in one fell swoop and everything should just work as normal. However, if you run into any oddities please let me know in this thread.
One oddity already reported is being logged out on some pages and then back in again on others. This is temporary while we roll out the HTTPS change. In the meantime if you find yourself being logged out, click the site logo in the top left and that will take you to a secure version of the site where you should be logged in. So long as you follow links on the page you should stay logged in. If you follow bookmarks that use the old HTTP URL you could end up being logged out.
Also make sure you're using a reasonably up-to-date browser or you may get connection errors. If this is happening to you, please let me know (if you can!).
Another important thing to note with this change is that the site no longer allows embedding of HTTP images. Doing so would break the security of the page the image is embedded on. Thankfully most sites now support HTTPS so there should be a secure version available for most images. However, if you try to embed an image without a HTTPS alternative, you will see an error (shown below) and not be able to submit your post.
All existing HTTP image URLs in posts have been updated to use HTTPS. Where a HTTPS image is available they continue to work, where it is not, a broken image icon will be shown.
Not ideal I know, but as the site's policy is not to host any user generated media (and that includes using XenForo's image proxy feature) we'll just have to live with this limitation.
Next stop, the upgrade to XenForo 2 and with it a bunch of new features and brand new design. That's still a few weeks away so watch this space...
We've rolled out the change across the whole site in one fell swoop and everything should just work as normal. However, if you run into any oddities please let me know in this thread.
One oddity already reported is being logged out on some pages and then back in again on others. This is temporary while we roll out the HTTPS change. In the meantime if you find yourself being logged out, click the site logo in the top left and that will take you to a secure version of the site where you should be logged in. So long as you follow links on the page you should stay logged in. If you follow bookmarks that use the old HTTP URL you could end up being logged out.
Also make sure you're using a reasonably up-to-date browser or you may get connection errors. If this is happening to you, please let me know (if you can!).
Another important thing to note with this change is that the site no longer allows embedding of HTTP images. Doing so would break the security of the page the image is embedded on. Thankfully most sites now support HTTPS so there should be a secure version available for most images. However, if you try to embed an image without a HTTPS alternative, you will see an error (shown below) and not be able to submit your post.
All existing HTTP image URLs in posts have been updated to use HTTPS. Where a HTTPS image is available they continue to work, where it is not, a broken image icon will be shown.
Not ideal I know, but as the site's policy is not to host any user generated media (and that includes using XenForo's image proxy feature) we'll just have to live with this limitation.
Next stop, the upgrade to XenForo 2 and with it a bunch of new features and brand new design. That's still a few weeks away so watch this space...
