We are having some difficulties with the site at the moment. We are aware that there is an error being presented about our certificate being expired. We are working on it and appreciate your patience while we iron this out.
Interim measure #1: try to use the non-secure link to the site http://soylentnews.org
Interim measure #2: Accept the expired cert, but be sure to uncheck the 'Permanently store this exception' checkbox (this may not be available to you on very recent versions of Firefox).
If you have other suggestions on workarounds, please submit as a comment. Be certain we are doing all we can to get the site back up and running!
[Update] NCommander reports that: "New SSL certificate has been installed and the site no longer generates certificate errors. I'm continuing to do work to get performance for Firefox to be decent."
[Update 2]: A revised frontend proxy is nearly operational and ready to go into service which will resolve performance issues for firefox
(Score: 2) by quixote on Sunday June 07 2015, @10:22PM
I vaguely understand what you're on about regarding certs, so I'm not sure I'd see the problem if there was one. But for what it's worth, SN is running flawlessly and fast on my Firefox35 (Debian Jessie/stable/8 system).
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Sunday June 07 2015, @11:10PM
That's because we disabled SSL-by-default which got firefox to stop sucking.
Still always moving