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Font Awesome API outage (status.fortawesome.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by donuts@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

~~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:

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Just download and host it yourself and no outage.

[-] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months 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 1 points 4 months 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.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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!

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And this is why you cache

[-] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Looks like it's fixed now

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