New Edits is flagged insecure.

I expect this is an atavism of when security in forms was less a thing. Obviously no one is going to search for their credit card number or social (unless they were foolish enough to make that their username), but to Chrome, and I expect many other browsers, it might as well be so. So it won't autofill, and it makes me stop before I go through? Even though there's no real reason for it to be secure, to accord with modern browser safety protocols, you probably ought to.

This is some odd dialect of English that I can't quite parse. Where exactly on the site are you when you get a message about security? Please provide a link.

I'm guessing they're referring to this page, which upon interacting with the lock icon in the url bar of various browsers (I checked using Chrome on mobile), does say the connection is not fully secure.

Weird that it's only the one page, though.

Well, there are no input elements on that page, but I think I see the problem. From inspecting the page source, there is one link to https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php (note the lack of 'https:'). That might be triggering the security warning. It's just a coding omission. We'll let the admins know.

Edit: There should be no actual security risk since the link would redirect to the secure version of the site.

Edited by Fighteer on Sep 6th 2021 at 10:44:00 AM

Yeah, the issue is that when you're searching for a particular troper, it won't autofill, and you get taken to a page warning you against submitting, until you click through.

This is more of the twine and gum holding the website together. We brought it up to the admins and they said that they would be able to replace it with best-practices code fairly quickly.