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Font Awesome API outage (status.fortawesome.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by donuts@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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~~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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[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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!

[–] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days 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?

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And this is why you cache

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Just download and host it yourself and no outage.

[–] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Looks like it's fixed now

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days 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.

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago

Oh no! Anyways,