Strange logic, dear Kitsune. Do you follow me?
1. We earn some money from the ads.
2. We use this money to pay the hosting and the domain (~ USD 24 every year).
And this is why we don't beg you or anyone else to support this forum with donations.3. The rest we use to share with the people who work hard here (moderation, inspection).
And after I made it clear that we have
some money which is enough to pay for the forum and even to give some bonus to people who contribute here with the moderation, you started to ask about the https thing again...
Let me try it again:
1.
No, we never beg you or others to pay money here. It's 100% free.2.
Yes, we have enough for hosting, domain and some personal earnings.3.
No, we haven't enough to pay something more than the 3 mentioned above. About your favorite https, take a read:
20% of the world 502 largest websites do not use HTTPS.
In the future if we (most of us) successfully find more income abroad and this forum got more incomes, we gladly will spend more for https, some new moderators and so on. But for now, we're not that rich, so, again: NO, we don't ask for your money because we're not that poor. YES, we are not that rich to afford https (when it's paid).
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Just in case: if you think the explanation above was too complicated for you, I will use simpler words and some very basic examples to make it clear what's the difference between "
You are going to ask me to pay." and "
If you're not asking me to pay, then why no https?")