Got warning on Mac, Firefox 72.01 - the latest vers.
I’m looking for who to blame, and have narrowed it down to Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, Canada, or NorKo. I was blaming Trump or Biden, but it would require tech skills, and who am I kidding?
We’re currently waiting on the new certificate to propagate everywhere, that might take a little bit of time. But the situation is fixed.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
Here, I took screen shots of the warning and the certificate expiry, and there’s already a thread!
Thanks for taking care of it, and for letting us know it was taken care of!
So. . . Obama? Yang?
I just got it now in Chrome. I went “advanced” and verified that my clock was correct (and that I know the Dope and my fellow Dopers and that NONE of us are “right” . 
. ) and came on in
What can I say? I live a life of risk. 
Yep and now things look weird on this page, the emoticons are named, “ordered list” is spelled out, etc.
And it gets worse ---- two of my replies since the above Chrome has made me jump through the “not secure”, “advanced” and “are you really REALLY sure you want to talk to these people” hoops twice just to post. :smack:
I swear to god, they do this on purpose, and by they, I don’t mean this site, but the internet in general. It’s become sentient and is doing this just to piss everyone off.
No this is just pure administrative incompetence. You buy an SSL cert, you note the expiration date, you set yourself a calendar notice to renew it a month before that date.
Seriously y’all, do better, this is just embarrassing.
Got it just now.
Firefox on Windows.
The boards won’t let me come in using https, so there’s still definitely an issue. I had to prefix the URL with http://
It’s not fully propagated yet, I think that’s the problem.
Give it another 12-24 hours and let’s see if that doesn’t work more better.
Sorry for the inconvenience, everyone.
Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
Sadly, that’s a new feature, not a bug. 
Getting the same error in Chrome (Windows 10) today:
Your connection is not private
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NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID
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This server could not prove that it is boards.straightdope.com; its security certificate expired in the last day. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection. Your computer’s clock is currently set to Saturday, January 11, 2020. Does that look right? If not, you should correct your system’s clock and then refresh this page.
Proceed to boards.straightdope.com (unsafe)
It was worse in Safari – for them I had to reconfigure my security and totally sign in my computer a second time. I may log off and come back with my ancient Firefox and mini just to see what happens there. Everything is so ancient and unsupported it probably works like a Champ! 
Curiosity solved; my first generation mini and Firefox 48.0.2 still LOVES the SDMB. So for all those having issues the solution is shop eBay for a really old Apple and keep it around for emergencies like this.
Eh, google once let their domain registration expire and had to buy it back. Stuff happens, even to the giants of the industry. This lapse is nowhere near that bad.
If the constant warning messages are starting to annoy you (as they did me), you can tell Chrome on Windows to ignore the error by launching it with the “-ignore-certificate-errors” option. Just set up a shortcut with the target:
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” -ignore-certificate-errors