The forum is not reachable over https any more. ![ThumbsDown :--](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/icon_thumbsdown.gif)
I can confirm that. It started about 4 days ago.
BTW, I still don't understand why anyone wants to access the site using https? Why does it matter?
for those that don't care, it does not matter.
but for those of us who do want our comms to be unsniffable, defeating our ISP's snooping, denying them insight into what sites we visit, and also denying them the ability to INJECT THEIR OWN ADS and mess up the content along the way - it does matter to us!
see, if you run end-to-end encryption, you can know that what you see on the page is what was really there. but if you let ISPs edit your data packets on-the-fly, more and more of them want to insert ads or change your content. or, later, who knows - maybe even slow-lane you if you are not connecting to one of their preferred or partner sites.
the world HAS to convert to an entirely encrypted model. it will frustrate and deny the spy agencies and its our only way to ensure the free internet STAYS a free internet.
sorry for the political-style reply but this is real stuff. the sooner the whole net converts over, the sooner the spooks will realize that mass surveillance is not something we want and we will do all we can to deny them this unethical power they just assumed, and did not deserve.
don't get bogged down in 'but this is just a hobby site'. it does not matter. it does not matter if you are visiting a cooking site or a politics site. privacy is privacy and we all deserve the right to shield our comms from prying ISPs and other agencies. what we visit does not matter, its our right to privacy and global internet freedom.