HTTPS now available on L19!
Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 8:17 am
Hey everyone! As has been requested a few times now, lifein19x19.com now supports HTTPS: https://lifein19x19.com.
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
In particular, I've gone over all old
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