It's not a matter of analness. Because of annoying limitations of App Engine, we can't drop the www, and the redirect to www that is served when hitting the naked domain over https (https://getlantern.org) produces a big scary certificate error in many browsers because it's served with a google cert and not our cert. We just have to migrate off App Engine to fix this. And we always want to use https links wherever possible not just because sslstrip is a thing but also because it shows people we use https and they should too.