Feature Announcements

[ConnorJC]

It's because the link is in the format .//memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=28911, so it'll just add an extra slash to the amount you already have. Removing that beginning ./ should fix the issue. Apparently it's now been reported with an external link, so that's likely a separate issue.

By the way, the best part is that the extra slashes stay there even after leaving the profile page, until you close the tab.

[ConnorJC]

Thank you, ConnorJC!

To be honest I was pretty surprised when I went to mark a forum read and had to click a confirmation message.

[ConnorJC]

Can't you edit posts here?

Anyways, two quick things I don't think anyone's mentioned yet:

- MafiaScum is now available over HTTPS. This breaks a lot of images (which is why it isn't forced yet). We're fixing those right now. Once that's done the forums will only be available over HTTPS.
- There's now a dev chat server, and will soon be one for the forums. Most people probably don't care, but I can post the link if anyone is interested in testing new features.

[ConnorJC]

Site chat is still hosted on HTTP right now. It should start working once it's put behind an HTTPS reverse proxy.
Passing this on to Kison so he can fix it.

[ConnorJC]

Ugh. I have to type an extra letter? Way to "boost" efficiency by slowing us down guys.

(srs though, great job!)

How fast do you type a letter?
https://www.httpvshttps.com/

[ConnorJC]

Actually, if MS enables HTTP/2 there will be a performance

benefit

while using HTTPS (As no modern server/browser supports unencrypted HTTP/2, and HTTP/2 is faster than HTTP/1.1).
I'll try to get Kison to do so

The current page load speed difference is about 1/20th of a second, so any perceived slowness is likely a caching problem.
HTTP @ 599ms https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/epTqrG/htt ... iascum.net
HTTPS @ 656ms https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/bTfVjU/htt ... iascum.net

[ConnorJC]

HTTP/2 is easy to implement on nginx, but unfortunately MS uses apache rather than nginx, and apache http/2 support is 'experimental'
I'm trying to find a solution though

Edit: How can HTTP/2 be detrimental to implement?

[ConnorJC]

It's faster right now, go see for yourself

https://www.httpvshttps.com/

[ConnorJC]

From the linked article:
"I think we can safely say that HTTP/2 is not any slower than than HTTP1."

I'll take the same speed as unencrypted HTTP/1.1 but with encryption any day.