So does anyone in Pprune Moderating Land know whether the site will migrate to HTTPS in the near future, or will we continue to do business the same old way?
IB own and run the site. Moderators have nothing to do with and no input into technical matters concerning the site. In short, I haven't a clue about what IB may or may not do about HTTPS.
PPRuNe is still running on a very, very old version of vBulletin software, which may not reliably support HTTPS (I haven't checked).
If there was a smiley for "not holding one's breath" I would insert it here.
SD