[lookingsideways]

> Another thing I don't like about this "forced HTTPS" is that mandatory HTTPS makes it difficult to publish stuff to the web. You must either deploy your own Letsencrypt to run your website, or if it's too much of a hassle (which would be the case for most people, even developers), just run your website on a service provider that already has HTTPS.

> This means people will rather publish their blogs on sites like medium.com rather than running their own wordpress server, or even a ghost blog.

I think we'll just see an evolution of the tools available. For example, Ghost's CLI install already sets up letsencrypt for you along with auto-renew of certificates, anyone using that or the 1-click DigitalOcean droplet will get HTTPS with no extra setup difficulty compared to a non-HTTPS version.