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I don't totally understand your reasoning. There is no downside to using SSL encryption and its completely free for websites to install it. On the other hand,

• prepend 8y ago
  There are downsides, but I don’t think any massive. I don’t know OP’s hosting situation, but there may be limitations there. Although even the most basic hosts use letsencrypt nowadays. But I think the most obvious downside is that OP is the only one working on this and any time spent working out ssl is time away from feature development. SSL is not a key feature of OP’s product so there may be other features more important. Simplicity is an important design principle. There are many things that have “no downside [other than cost to set up and maintain].” but have no clear value driver. It’s quite possible that all the important stuff gets built out before users make the value of ssl really clear.