True, for the forum, it is mainly important when logging in. But it is a general movement where browsers are getting more vocal, okay visual, about using http vs https. The trend is to expect SSL all the time.
It’s funny, I had just noticed, a few days ago, that many of my bookmarks were auto-redirecting to https, and I had started to go through all of them to see which ones are, and updating my bookmarks. Since this website was not auto switching, I had left it as http. Then I saw this thread...