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)
Figured I’d make a meme too: Image
And this why you cache
Font Awesome API outage
Submitted 3 weeks ago by donuts@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://status.fortawesome.com/
Comments
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Bogasse@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Just download it yourself and no outage.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh no! Anyways,
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Looks like it’s fixed now
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
One of our key functionalities was disrupted because the link was behind an icon 🙃