Font Awesome API outage (status.fortawesome.com)
from donuts@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 2025 08:03
https://lemmy.world/post/33799882

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:

#technology

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JustARaccoon@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 2025 09:12 next collapse

Looks like it’s fixed now

CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 2025 09:17 next collapse

Oh no! Anyways,

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz on 01 Aug 2025 09:23 next collapse

And this is why you cache

puppinstuff@lemmy.ca on 01 Aug 2025 10:40 next collapse

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 on 01 Aug 2025 11:28 collapse

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 on 01 Aug 20:16 next collapse

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.

Bogasse@lemmy.ml on 01 Aug 21:22 next collapse

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 on 02 Aug 01:00 collapse

Just download and host it yourself and no outage.