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UPDATE:

Since Area 51 is not supporting SSL yet. But the Area 51 link in the footer of Meta Stack Exchange site and in the Your Communities dropdown list contains https://, clicked from there it caused the insecure connection issue.

Area 51 footer

Actual post

When I click the Minimum Activity Requirements for Area 51 link in the bottom of the Area 51 main page, I received the insecure connection issue.

Area 51 main page

In Google Chrome:

Chrome

In plain text:

Your connection is not private

Attackers might be trying to steal your information from discuss.area51.stackexchange.com (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

In Mozilla Firefox:

Firefox

In plain text:

Your connection is not secure

The owner of discuss.area51.stackexchange.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.

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    Area51 does not support SSL yet.. – Floern Mar 31 '17 at 11:26
  • @Floern: Yeah, noticed. I'm trying to identify, from which link I get the https:// for the Area 51. – Arulkumar Mar 31 '17 at 11:45
  • The actual bug here is the https links to Area 51 which should be changed back to http links, especially in the footer which is the most visible. – Shadow Wizard Apr 20 '17 at 14:04
  • @ShadowWizard: Hope the https link is based on the site from where we are seeing. From Stack Overflow footer, it is still http only – Arulkumar Apr 20 '17 at 14:06
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    Good point, the link is indeed relative (//area51.stackexchange.com/). So it should be changed to absolute link. – Shadow Wizard Apr 20 '17 at 14:07
  • This appears to be fixed now. Area 51 is now also on HTTPS, and any old links to discuss.area51.stackexchange.com should now be fixed to point to area51.meta.stackexchange.com. If you still observe problems, you should probably post a new bug report about them. – Ilmari Karonen Sep 6 '17 at 19:43
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Currently the http://discuss.area51.stackexchange.com is redirecting to https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/.

So the link mentioned in the post is now redirecting to https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/20966/minimum-activity-requirements-for-area-51, it didn't throw the insecure error.

So the issue is fixed now.

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From your screenshot, you're attempting to use https to access it. However, Area 51 doesn't have https yet. From the https announcement:

Area 51, Chat, and stackexchange.com (the main site) have a separate set of concerns and code we'll address after Q&A. The list also isn't necessarily in order. While we're testing #6, Samo and I will be working on #11 at the same time.

Also, discuss.area51 is a bit of a trouble maker:

The only such special casing in place now is https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/, which is already a massive pain and tech debt factor. In fact, it's causing pain with the HTTPS move right now, since I can't move it the same way as everything else.
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