Support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1

[Admin]

We'll be removing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on the forum soon. This is in line with the general recommendation of standards bodies and will prevent the forum from being penalized (e.g. by search engines) in the near future.

Background: TLS 1.2 has been a standard for a long time and has been supported by all current browsers for years (Chrome 30+, Firefox 27+, Pale Moon 24.3.2+, MSIE 10/11 (depending on operating system), Safari 7+). It is considerably more secure than TLS 1.0 and 1.1, and has been a strong recommendation in the descriptions of those protocols.

This should not impact anyone with some semblance of responsible browser/Internet use.

[bgstack15]

Thanks for the heads up! I don't expect my client browsers to have any problems, but should something happen, I will think of this change first.

[Moonchild]

We've applied this policy to all cloudflare-backed parts of palemoon.org as well now. If you are on a very old browser (including IE8-10 on Win 7) then you can still access the website over http for downloads, but https will require at least IE11 or other TLS 1.2 supporting browsers.
Our practical usage figures of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 through cloudflare justified this (only 0.3% of requests would be using 1.0 or 1.1 at this point, which are likely all bots/scripts anyway)