GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3

Re:GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3 by tunesmith on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:59PM (#11016330)

I don't know much about GitHub Pages, but if it's only for static pages, then why do you need SSL? I mean if you're not going to be sending sensitive dynamic data. Is it so people can't snoop the contents of your pages over request/response on a network?

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Re:GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3 by bdcravens on Monday February 01, 2016 @06:36PM (#11016564)

Google uses https as a signal of quality, and Chrome will start shaming sites that aren't:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-will-soon-shame-all-...

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Re:GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3 by x0 on Monday February 01, 2016 @07:43PM (#11016918)

I only have static, unimportant data on my site, but I use HTTPS in case someone's ISP is injecting ads or scripts into their pages. I don't want people to think that's part of my website.

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Re:GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3 by tomjakubowski on Monday February 01, 2016 @06:26PM (#11016506)

You might be serving something like a PGP public key, which you'd like viewers to be assured hasn't been tampered with in transit.

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Re:GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3 by buzzdenver on Monday February 01, 2016 @08:18PM (#11017083)

https is also for authentication, not just encryption.

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