Welcome to 2010! PokerFraudAlert is now using https --- PLEASE REPORT BUGS

[Dan Druff]

Tonight I spent a few hours on the arduous, thankless, and uncompensated task of getting this site converted to https.

If you have received "site is not secure" or similar warnings over the past few months, it was because I was resisting making this change.

I was only resisting it because it's a pain in the ass, and honestly it's not really necessary on a site like this.

But google is now penalizing sites without https, and people are getting obnoxious messages making them think PFA is infected, so it was time to make the change.

Unfortunately, this comes with a lot of complications. This site was accessing a lot of scripts and images which are not https. There are other various issues (including getting the certificate itself installed) which were a pain in the ass, which I won't bother getting into.

You should now see that the site is listed as "secure" on your browser. Sometimes you will get a warning message that it is not "fully secure", usually if it's loading an image from another site. That's harmless.

However, if any functionality has suddenly stopped working for you, please post in this thread, preferably with screen shots, and I will fix it.

This also temporarily broke radio, but I think I have that fixed. But make sure radio works for you. Go to the radio page right now and let me know if it isn't working as usual for you.

[PLOL]

I now feel secure enough that I'm changing my password to 'password'

[Deal]

I take full credit. Uncompensated even.

[simpdog]

Thanks Druff.

[LarryLaffer]

thanks holmes.


but you don't need to remind us that you were uncompensated. there's a thread right now where you echo these sentiments.


is the site now worth $5.5k because of this new feature?

[Dan Druff]

The uncompensated thing was a joke. It's my choice to run this site at a loss, and sometimes maintaining it will take some time.

This was my first SSL certificate I installed, so it was at least a bit of an interesting learning process, though frustrating at times.

[Mintjewlips]

Im seeing multiple post by larry laffer.........oh wait nevermind.

[LarryLaffer]

Im seeing multiple post by larry laffer.........oh wait nevermind.

says the guy with ~11x negative rep more than me, who posts ALMOST as much as I do.

[abrown83]

The uncompensated thing was a joke. It's my choice to run this site at a loss, and sometimes maintaining it will take some time.

This was my first SSL certificate I installed, so it was at least a bit of an interesting learning process, though frustrating at times.

At least you didn't pay for the cert, so you got that right.

I wonder if there is a way you can force images to be grabbed and stored locally since there is a checkbox to do that when you link an image, maybe default and use some JS to prevent someone from unchecking the box so people like me don't break SSL on the page?

[LarryLaffer]

I think there's a bug in the above post.

[Zap_the_Fractions_Giraffe]

handwritten message in the IM still doesn't work. it's been years.

[Mintjewlips]

Im seeing multiple post by larry laffer.........oh wait nevermind.

says the guy with ~11x negative rep more than me, who posts ALMOST as much as I do.

One guy neg reps me 10 times for 60 days straight vs almost the entire community red repping you at one point since you started posting..........i don't see the similarities.

[SysOp]

do you operate this site at a small loss?

[LarryLaffer]

do you operate this site at a small loss?

only as small as my heart.

and it beats for pfa

[LarryLaffer]

Actually, on a rather on topic note....

What can I do about threads that are very youtube video heavy like the Random thread, or the countless favorite song threads, taking forever to load all the previews of the videos?