We don't actually use OpenSSL / HTTPS as most forums don't, so traffic to and from Omegaforums and other non-SSL sites is not encrypted. We may look at adding it in the future but its rather uncommon for forums.

 

As for other sites, your risk is very low, but regular password changes are always a prudent measure. Also set a quality password wherever you go, and don't use the same password everywhere.

XKCD had an excellent explanation on password security a while back:

http://xkcd.com/936/

 

I'll see if there's something we can hack in quickly that will preserve the image orientation correctly.

 

Hey Togri,

There's some modifications/fixes added that should resolve the orientation issues you were seeing. We've tested it with several photos from an iPhone taken upside down, etc. It all seems ok now. Let me know if there's any other problems.

Cheers

 

The accio pictures are actually not on Omegaforums, they're external links to the photo hosting site imgur http://i.imgur.com/Dcdf8AY.jpg

 

If you click that link does the image come up? It could be that the internet you're on has blocked that third party hosting site

 

This IS porn so it is appropriately blocked. Haven't you seen the moniker of LouS ?

 

Well imgur does contain a significant amount of porn, probably more so than most image hosting sites. Probably why it happened, I know some schools block it too. On the plus side, the next version of OF does a bit of trickery where the server pulls in images from other sites that are linked and re-serves them itself. Its meant to help us serve consistent image sizes and apply scaling to fit devices used but it doubles as a way to get around this sort of blocking.

We actually finished off that feature 3 days ago and it works really nicely, no more people linking 3000px wide images that make your ipad / slow internet cry, just fetched by our server from the third party site, scaled to sane dimensions, compressed and served by our servers and CDN.

Bit of a ways off on OF3 yet but we're working on it.

 

I think he'd like to be able to maintain groups of contacts, so you don't need to re-create them every time. We're definitely interested in features like this.