Font Awesome is currently experiencing an outage, so many webpages will have a broken UI or even broken functionality if there was any tied to icons (ask me how I know)

It has been fixed. Back to work!

Figured I’d make a meme too:

  • Bogasse@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    Why the fuck would you call an external API for a static font?? O_o

    Does it have something to do with paid plans?

  • puppinstuff@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Unless you need to supply an arbitrary FA icon It’s more performant to import SVG symbols.

    I think most affected sites will just have broken social media icons in their footers that nobody was going to click anyway.

    • .Donuts@lemmy.worldOP
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      23 hours ago

      One of our key functionalities was disrupted because the link was behind an icon 🙃

      Good moment to evaluate whether that’s the best solution going forwards!

  • kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    For Vue definitely, but I assume for the other big js frameworks you can easily just make it so font awesome is bundled with your app.