I believe it's breaking podcast feeds being served with WordPress.com, because iTunes doesn't support Let's Encrypt certificates.
https://www.dominicrodger.com/2016/02/29/lets-encrypt-itunes...
This may not affect a lot of customers (since WordPress.com doesn't support PowerPress for feed generation), but I know some podcasters create feeds by hand or with other apps.
This issue will cause at least some podcasts to disappear from iTunes without warning unless you can coordinate with Apple to fix it.
Do you have an example? We have already implemented workarounds for iTunes. If they aren't working I would love to know the specifics so we can fix it.
Just the confirmation from Apple's podcaster support team that iTunes doesn't support sites which use Let's Encrypt. (I don't use WordPress.com myself.)
I've just posted a request for examples in popular podcasting groups, and I'll let you know when/if I get responses.
> We have already implemented workarounds for iTunes.
Can you elaborate just a smidge? Is WordPress.com, for example, not encrypting content when it's requested by iTunes? (Thanks!)
Yes, we have some targeted exceptions for incompatible clients.
Asking because that's the problem I see at my site currently (https://groni50.org). In this case I'll just upload the external images to our site. I'll also brief our users. But I wonder if something couldn't be averted/checked in the wysiwyg editor.
This gets harder to implement correctly depending on what kind of content you allow on your sites (i.e. does your CMS only permit sanitized HTML, or are users allowed to do basically anything?), so it's not a perfect solution for everyone, but it might work here.
0. http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/ 1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/
Disclosure: I am the author of go-camo.
Growing pains. I think that will at least make people on the web more aware of the HTTPS "revolution".
Just wonderding about the metaphor of "growing pains". In humans its somethng that happens and for some its painful but has to happen, for others it isn't painful, but the process that makes the pain happens goes on regardless. Is this an accurate metaphor in this example?
I can flip the switch for default HTTPS on Neocities in a day. The hard part is figuring out how to not break user's sites in that process. Ideas welcome.