What This Means
For the non-technically-inclined among us, this basically means that L19 is a little bit safer today than it was yesterday. HTTPS protects against a certain class of attacks that would theoretically allow a malicious network to intercept your L19 traffic (most importantly, your password). There's absolutely no reason to believe this kind of attack was ever used - it's just a best practice to avoid it.
How To use It
All you have to do to take advantage of this is to use https:// instead of http:// when you visit lifein19x19.com from now on, so please update your bookmarks
Once you do, you should see that comforting green lock: 
In order to make 100% sure that everything is working cleanly with HTTPS, I'm going to leave the site with HTTP still enabled for the next 7 days, during which time HTTPS is optional but I highly encourage everyone to try it out and test it. After the 7 days are up, assuming no unfixed issues arise, I'm going to make HTTPS the default and all the old http:// links will simply redirect to https://. This shouldn't require any change whatsoever to your browsing patterns, just carry on as you were before!
Known Issues
- During the beta, it will still be possible for someone on HTTP to upload an attachment to a post and embed it (through, say,
In particular, I've gone over all old 
... either way, they're fixed now! Thanks for the catches