Two observations:

a) after signing up there setting "Allow Ello to gather anonymous information about your visit, which helps us make Ello better. Learn more." defaults to YES.

This from a site that is selling themselves as a privacy conscious is simply comical.

b) https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ello.co

- SHA1 cert

- No FS

- Defaults to RC4

Their ops team has not paid attention to properly configuring TLS. Not encouraging at all.

If anyone at Ello is reading this there is an excellent resource for securing your TLS setup at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS