[_cmmn]

Just a note:

> The deployed site is hosted on Heroku. It's part of GitHub's meta-account, and they pay the bills.

So why aren't they just using a GitHub page for this?

[ameliaquining]

GitHub Pages still doesn't support HTTPS on custom domains.

[ezekg]

Can't you use Cloudflare for HTTPS? I think it ends up being something like:

    User <-free SSL cert-> Cloudflare <-self-signed GH cert-> GitHub Pages

Obviously not ideal, but still possible.

[bfred_it]

I just enabled it by using CloudFlare on the domain.