HTTPS = More members?

[Bryn]

Apparently, having HTTPS and a secure SSL certificate to go along with it for your forum can garner a wider audience of visitors and possibly, them to become long-time members. Or at least what someone I know had told me. Is this really true though?

 

[Azareal]

I went over it elsewhere, but in short:

Google will prioritise your results, it gives you access to HTTP/2 which can speed up your site, and Chrome is going to have a big red "Not Secure" warning in the URL bar in Chrome 68 (the next version of Chrome, they release a new version every month).

 

[Bryn]

Yes, I did know about Chrome's thing with "non-secure" sites, and of it going to block them completely in later releases. Although, HTTPS is actually enabled for my forum but not actually enforced (as I get a "not secure because of images"). You think I should do it now, even for the sake of anybody browsing about with Chrome?

 

[Corzhens]

Pardon me if this comment is not exactly relevant. I find some sites, particularly forum ,that have https in their address which I cannot access using Chrome. The message is about unsecured site that it might be a poser. In those cases, I would shift to Mozila and it can be accessed normally. Now it makes me wonder if that https is really for progress, why can't it not be accessed by our home desktop's Chrome? The effect on me is the tendency to quit that site since it is not convenient for me to shift to another browser.

 

[Bryn]

Now it makes me wonder if that https is really for progress, why can't it not be accessed by our home desktop's Chrome?

Because Google are stupid and wants everyone to suffer.

 

[Page]

So many sites that doesn't have SSL. But it's not going to be all easy for those that have images and third party apps

 

[Azareal]

Pardon me if this comment is not exactly relevant. I find some sites, particularly forum ,that have https in their address which I cannot access using Chrome. The message is about unsecured site that it might be a poser. In those cases, I would shift to Mozila and it can be accessed normally. Now it makes me wonder if that https is really for progress, why can't it not be accessed by our home desktop's Chrome? The effect on me is the tendency to quit that site since it is not convenient for me to shift to another browser.

It means they have an invalid certificate, happens to me when testing on localhost as obviously, there aren't going to be any CAs issuing certificates for localhost.
Either their certificate has expired, they signed it themselves, or their CA got blacklisted by Chrome.

 

[Jason76]

What about a scam site with https://? You can't trust the site, but you can trust the site!

I went over it elsewhere, but in short:

Google will prioritise your results, it gives you access to HTTP/2 which can speed up your site, and Chrome is going to have a big red "Not Secure" warning in the URL bar in Chrome 68 (the next version of Chrome, they release a new version every month).

If you're serious about search engine listing, you'd want the certificate for the usual less than 10 dollars. However, a problem would be that it doesn't always show up in the address bar! Well, it does on Forum Promotion for some reason.

 

[Azareal]

What about a scam site with https://? You can't trust the site, but you can trust the site!

If you're serious about search engine listing, you'd want the certificate for the usual less than 10 dollars. However, a problem would be that it doesn't always show up in the address bar! Well, it does on Forum Promotion for some reason.

You can get certificates for free from Let's Encrypt.
If I recall, it's a non-profit organisation.

You can also get a certificate from Cloudflare.