That's not a change. Actually it's the only way I could be signed in at all.
. . mmm. . must be dependant on your browser then. I use firefox, and the old software was not secure on Firefox. I had to make an exception for my fire wall and ad blocker. It really bothered me. This site was the least secure thing I did on-line. It was some really shady crap till the upgrade.
A few years ago ---
flacaltenn will remember this --- both
Lucy Hamilton and I (and others) were getting errors where we'd get signed out, or taken to the page requested signed out. Some of us were using Firefox, some other browsers. It turned out that the redirects from links were sending to http instead of to https, and once you manually inserted the S it would work again. Right up to yesterday when the software changed, I would get linked to a USMB page where I would be signed out, until I put that S back in there.
I was just poking around looking for that thread but it must have been somebody else's thread that I joined and not one I started.