Ah! I was reading too fast and doing other things at the same time (plus apparently my brain is just hard-wired to read “G’MIC” when something starts with G…)
Interesting, the discourse onebox that embeds the site snippet links to an image that is served over http, introducing mixed content to the page (look, no green lock on our url). I hope that it gets scraped by the site (or I’m going to file a bug report).
Nope - you do exactly what you’ve been doing. The forum is working as intended in this regard. If the onebox is mixing http/https content it’s a bug that I want to report upstream.