If you’ve been following our release notes, you know that we have been working towards full HTTPS support on the Archive for a while now. Today, we’re happy to announce that beginning on October 4th, all connections to the Archive will use HTTPS by default.
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ICYMI: We had to, quite literally, turn HTTPS off and on again a few times over the past several months as we fiddled with server settings to get us through times of peak traffic. With new frontend servers in place and whirring happily away, HTTPS is now officially the standard for connecting to the AO3! If this doesn’t work for you, we still provide HTTP access through insecure.archiveofourown.org. 👍