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Google's algorithm is going to (if it hasn't already) punish non-https sites by demoting them in the rankings. I'd prefer this site not get punished.
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That by it's self is a good reason to use https, and it does appear the "algorithm" has started/is doing that.
I have noticed a change, when I search, (usually I use "startpage"), any way when I
search, IE: How to do " this or that " on OpenBsd (or other OS) " The results used to
point to either this forum, for OpenBsd, or the same , a forum for the "OtherOS',...
Lately most of the results, if not all point toward other sites, all of which are "https".
and the "http" sites do not show, or are at the bottom,..
The only time the http sites show is when there is nothing on "other https" sites.
A little over a year ago, this was not the case.
So any way, I do think it would be a good thing for this site to use https, and it would be a help to any one just starting to use a BSD. That is to say , when I first started with Open Bsd, and also was looking at the others,NetBsd,FreeBsd, etc,...this site was right there at the top of the results, so it was easy for me to find. Now that I know about it, no big deal, but some one "new" recent, will not see this site when the do a search, ...