Well, we do support full-HTTPS, it just isn't required. If it were, PS would have been unusable to anyone with Firefox and Avast/BitDefender/etc. It also allo

Well, we do support full-HTTPS, it just isn't required. If it were, PS would have been unusable to anyone with Firefox and Avast/BitDefender/etc. It also allows image embeds. Users often share HTTP images in the chatrooms, which browsers using the HTTPS site complain about. For some weird reason, Google Chrome doesn't support data-URIs in HTTPS when using HTML5 drag-and-drop to drag files from a website to the desktop, which requires an annoying workaround. In addition, most people wanting to set up a third-party PS server don't want to go through the hassle of acquiring a certificate. It makes the setup process a lot more complicated than just "clone the repository and run ./pokemon-showdown"