Deprecation of the www. subdomains

I hope they don’t affect others who use that format, at the moment it wouldn’t affect me or so I think

Underpable

Should we change from https:// to www. because I don’t want to get confused anymore again?

Is there any way to hide this discussion strip from the top page of the site? >.>

@Princess Celestia
I’m sorry what??

I’m not great with technology talk but from what I am reading this seems like a good decision, I wish you luck!

@shvanthropony
If you don’t understand the question that was being asked, or the answer, please try describing in more detail what your question is.

I feel pretty confident in saying: the average user won’t be affected, if you don’t understand you’re likely not affected, and you’ll know for sure if you are

That’s bad. In Russia derpibooru is blocked by some providers, but accessable with www.

@Alakdar
For me non-www derpibooru is not blocked anymore (Rostelekom ISP, Saratov oblast)
Though it was back in 2017

@AppleDash
I had run a comparison on my laptop and Edge took up less resources than Chrome. The engine might be the same but it can be held back a bit to lessen the needed resources which is useful if I have a Cities Skylines wiki open with Cities running in the background. Laggy? Yes. Can I blame it on my browser? No because my laptop has the Unified RAM system so I’ve got 12GB of RAM per processor

What about Asia and Europe maybe?

@κακყഠɪი ρഠɢɢεʀട
What about them? I feel like we’ve talked about both Europe and Asia extensively in this thread (albeit in 日本語 or 中国語), so what questions do you feel we haven’t covered?

@Alakdar
The site itself started to open lately for me (was blocked before), but pictures aren’t always load without vpn, no matter if there is www or not

@Ciaran
Will Derpibooru be banned on certain areas of Asia and Europe?

@κακყഠɪი ρഠɢɢεʀട
Maybe not

@κακყഠɪი ρഠɢɢεʀട
Yes. For example the primary domain is apparently banned in China. But that has nothing to do with this thread or this change.

@mauriciolizarbe
@Ciaran
Oh well for sure in China that bans Derpibooru and in every schools in every state bans Derpibooru off and when will the https:// be changed into www. sooner the other next month?

@κακყഠɪი ρഠɢɢεʀട
Please keep your comments on topic for this thread. If you would like to talk about those other topics, please use a more appropriate thread or forum.

I haven’t typed in the www when visiting websites for ages so this won’t cause me any problems.

@Ciaran
Yeah I will use another one but I use the Mario thread a lot so I will be leaving that discussion sooner or later but the https:// was still on forever?

@κακყഠɪი ρഠɢɢεʀട
Those are completely different things. HTTP and HTTPS are the protocols that enables the connection between devices on the internet. It’s how data is transferred from one machine to another. Examples of other protocols are SFTP, which is for file transfers.

HTTP just means “HyperText Transfer Protocol”. The HTTPS version is the “Secure” version. It combines the HTTP protocol with the Secure Socket Layer (mmmm … sockets) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol.

These protocols have nothing to do with what we are talking about in this thread.

What we are talking about is the WWW part of “www.derpibooru.org” or the “www.trixiebooru.org” addresses.

WWW is the “subdomain” that is a piece of additional information added to the beginning of a website’s domain name that can help route traffic once it reaches the destination or host server.

The subdomain is not required, unless the host requires it. We do not require it. We’ve been using it in the past to help people use the site with multiple logins or to bypass firewalls. But it’s no longer needed to do that - the countries this won’t help with have blocked the domain instead, and changing the subdomain won’t change that.

On www I get the pictures loaded, but without www the whole site blocked by provider (МГТС/МТС Home).

@Ciaran
Yeah I know! (YIH!)

Literally when I started studying Linux servers. Sounds simple enough. I will keep this in mind.

Much friendly love
<3 Lily