"Recently Played" and "My Favorites" infinite stall

So for the past couple days or so, my Recently Played and My Favorites carousel bar things have been failing to load, and just stalled completely. My Robux count and notification list also doesn’t load in the home page
It has been happening fairly recently almost every time I go to my home page, with no steps needed to repro. All other pages in the Roblox site load fine, and every other site seems to also.

Nothing much more to it, but pretty annoying when it stalls randomly and I have to refresh the page a few times.
Bug screenie:

EDIT: Console output regarding the failing to load

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Could be related to Purchased Games category broken?

Conspiracy theory…

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If you visit https://www.roblox.com/home, do those categories load? You are on the http:// version for some reason.

The https link works for me, the http does not; It looks like that is the problem

Yep – seems I automatically get directed to the http version by default for some reason, and that’s causing the problem.

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This is subjective, but I use a chrome extension called HTTPS Everywhere that automatically redirects me to the HTTPS version of sites, if possible. See if getting that helps your case.

We will investigate sending you to the https version of the home page automatically.

How did you arrive at the http version? A bookmark? Did another page on the site send you there?

Simply typing roblox into Google and the autocomplete does www.roblox.com, but it does not specify whether it’s directing to https or not.
Typing www.roblox.com manually into the search bar produces similar results.

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If internals of the site like this don’t work on http, isn’t it possible for Roblox to block or redirect non https connections? (I’m not sure if the web api allows http itself)

For security reasons, you really shouldn’t be letting the website to load under http at all. If even one page load gets through with the session cookies under standard http, the site will be vulnerable to MITM attacks.

Is there any reason why the session identifier cookie isn’t marked as Secure (only transferred over https)?

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We are in the process of doing this.

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This bug should be fixed now. Can you verify that it no longer happens @Rerumu?

Going to http://www.roblox.com/home seems to redirect me to the https version, it works, thanks!

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