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Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2013–2022), in 11 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Setting up HTTPS needs ciphersuite choices and obscure configuration fixesUnreviewed
20132026- Forced HTTPS setup breaks chat script and mixed pages, costing hours of rework2018-02-09
- Local HTTPS setup is painful: self-signed certs, resolver configs, emulators and proxies all break2017-09-17
- Setting up HTTPS on a server is hard, requiring ciphersuite choices and obscure configuration fixes2013-12-21
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 10 complaints
- Webserver SSL config is arcane and poorly documented, so self-hosting seems to need expertise2022-10-10
- Users would have to click through scary warnings and install a root CA to reach device web interface2020-06-28
- Certificate trust stores must be maintained, and warnings or blocks appear when certificates change2020-06-11
- Forced HTTPS setup breaks chat script and mixed pages, costing hours of rework2018-02-09
- Local HTTPS setup is painful: self-signed certs, resolver configs, emulators and proxies all break2017-09-17
- Firefox page loads take about six seconds longer with the extension enabled2017-06-18
- Some websites break when accessed over https, requiring the user to whitelist them2016-08-08
- Chrome version has only a single button, no redirect option, and experimental rules toggle does nothing2015-04-03
- Site shows a broken padlock in Chrome after enabling HTTPS, unclear what it means2014-11-14
- Setting up HTTPS on a server is hard, requiring ciphersuite choices and obscure configuration fixes2013-12-21