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oh my god you literally can't log into DigitalOcean if fonts.googleapis.com is down or (in my case) null-routed. the site literally won't load. they have made the font CSS part of the critical path with no fallback. this is horrendous
i've never seen anything like this before. sometimes sites are awkward to use if the icon fonts are gone. but DigitalOcean's site literally becomes a blank page, as if there's been a 500 Internal Server Error or something. i was unable to log into my account to pay my debt
excuse me this is my load-bearing custom font
please stop boosting this i don't have many tools to work with to control its spread other than deleting, and i'd rather not
@hikari sorry, I unboosted it.
@0xabad1dea thanks!
@hikari insane. Even Google discourages using their CDN for fonts now yeah? Like they have been pointing to self hosting them as the right way for a while
@hikari do you have the localcdn extension
@demize what's that
@hikari it replaces common things fetched from CDNs (including, sort of, google fonts) with versions that come bundled with the extension
@hikari oh hmm I double checked and all it will do for google fonts is block them because there’s just too many of them 
@hikari load bearing font+ip logger
@hikari I guess they don't really understand that one of their biggest selling points is that they aren't Google or Amazon.
@hikari This nonsense of intra-dependency is becoming all too common. And yet this "design pattern" is seen as the best thing ever. Sometimes I wonder if computer science takes two steps back for every step forward it takes.
@hikari We had an actual production outage at my company a while back because of exactly this kind of thing. A shared CSS file used an `@import` to pull in a font from a vendor that was not responding (hanging indefinitely). Using a normal `link` caused the entire page to wait for the unavailable resource. I couldn’t believe it either.
@hikari Do you have UBO? Usually they ship fixes for sites that break with malicious embeds blocked.
@hikari Every few months, I come across a new reason not to use DigitalOcean. I keep being lazy about turning it off, but god damn.
@hikari That's both absolutely appalling and terrifying, and yet reassuring that someone else has made bad decisions this week.
@hikari well this is reinforcing my decision to move to hetzner...