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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 Another entry for @hbuchel to throw on her Pile of CSS Bad Practice; guess I won't be configuring my droplet backups today.

@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...