On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:03 PM, James Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah, this seems to contradict what I thought Ryan was saying above and
> what I was under the impression for. The bad use case for here (as describe
> by Risker for example) is a mainland china user from zhWiki logging in
> (through http) but now not being able to visit enWiki logged in at all
> (because it will force them to https and https is blocked).


Posed for sake of argument, assuming this interpretation is correct:


This is unacceptable and a blocking bug to this rollout.

The suggested "just find an excepted project and log in there first" is neither 
easy nor self-evident enough to be effective for those users.  The silent 
failure mode they will encounter will effectively be a silent site outage for 
them.

The change must be delayed until people geographically / nationally denied 
HTTPS can log in again.


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