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Icon Library Upgrade - Xerotic - Apr 29, 2020
HF has been using the Font Awesome 4.7 icon pack for some time now. It has served us well but it's not perfect. The problem is the limited availability and some style differences. Step forward Font Awesome 5.x. Let's see what kind of improvement it can offer.
FA 4 (Free): ~675 icons
FA 5 (Free): ~1588 icons
FA 5 (Pro): ~7842 icons
So simply upgrading to the FA 5 free version will more than double the icons we can choose from when styling HF. It's also extremely likely that we will opt-in for the pro version, giving us considerably more icon choices (more than 10x what we had before).
Anyway... today I am in the process of upgrading HF's Font Awesome library from 4.x to 5.x.
You will notice that icons will look slightly different now. Observe:
![[Image: HgaMadu.png]](https://i.imgur.com/HgaMadu.png)
These are the new FA5 icons. They are mostly the same as what you are use to, but just slightly updated because of the FA 5 upgrade.
So this thread serves to let you know you will be seeing these changes and also as a way for us to help make this upgrade as smooth as possible. It isn't as simple as just changing over a file. Many icons on HF will break and likely appear as nothing at all or an empty square.
If you see them, please report them here. I will keep an active list of icons that need to be fixed. Thank you.
To Do
- PM Inbox Envelope Icon (read / unread / etc) fixed
- User CP Nav Icons fixed
- Login / Register Desktop Icons fixed
- Jump to Post Icon fixed
- Thread Footer Icons (Subscribe, PDF, etc) fixed
If some icons are still broken be sure to clear your cache or reload these files and check again:
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme12/showthread.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme12/usercp.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme12/global.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme13/global.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme14/global.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme15/global.css
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - Charger - Apr 29, 2020
Why are there no other replies? Weird.
Anyway, thread footer icons are broke too.
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - NoSuchAgency - Apr 29, 2020
I love Font Awesome, it's a really good choice for icons. I'll likely need to do the same on my websites here soon, thanks for the idea.
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - Xerotic - Apr 29, 2020
(Apr 29, 2020 05:12 PM)Charger Wrote: Why are there no other replies? Weird.
Anyway, thread footer icons are broke too.
Strange stuff. Thanks.
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - Dorrance - Apr 29, 2020
I did notice the update on the icons very nice and more HQ
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - Goku - Apr 29, 2020
Nice! updating fontawesome can be a pain in the butt so I wish you good luck with this task :)
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - Nuworld - Apr 29, 2020
(Apr 29, 2020 04:57 PM)Xerotic Wrote: HF has been using the Font Awesome 4.7 icon pack for some time now. It has served us well but it's not perfect. The problem is the limited availability and some style differences. Step forward Font Awesome 5.x. Let's see what kind of improvement it can offer.
FA 4 (Free): ~675 icons
FA 5 (Free): ~1588 icons
FA 5 (Pro): ~7842 icons
So simply upgrading to the FA 5 free version will more than double the icons we can choose from when styling HF. It's also extremely likely that we will opt-in for the pro version, giving us considerably more icon choices (more than 10x what we had before).
Anyway... today I am in the process of upgrading HF's Font Awesome library from 4.x to 5.x.
You will notice that icons will look slightly different now. Observe:
These are the new FA5 icons. They are mostly the same as what you are use to, but just slightly updated because of the FA 5 upgrade.
So this thread serves to let you know you will be seeing these changes and also as a way for us to help make this upgrade as smooth as possible. It isn't as simple as just changing over a file. Many icons on HF will break and likely appear as nothing at all or an empty square.
If you see them, please report them here. I will keep an active list of icons that need to be fixed. Thank you.
To Do
- PM Inbox Envelope Icon (read / unread / etc) broken
- User CP Nav Icons broken
- Login / Register Desktop Icons broken
- Jump to Post Icon broken
- Thread Footer Icons (Subscribe, PDF, etc) broken
Nice job buddy.
Something new everyday.
👍🤙
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - Xerotic - Apr 29, 2020
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme12/showthread.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme12/usercp.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme12/global.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme13/global.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme14/global.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme15/global.css
Current listed issues are now resolved. Please reload the above files or clear your cache to see the icons.
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - Charger - Apr 29, 2020
(Apr 29, 2020 06:38 PM)Xerotic Wrote: https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme12/showthread.cssYou should make a page where you can reset all of the cache for when you push updates. There’s the universal windows.location.reload(true) and the sorta-new https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Cache/delete
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme12/usercp.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme12/global.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme13/global.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme14/global.css
https://hackforums.net/cache/themes/theme15/global.css
Current listed issues are now resolved. Please reload the above files or clear your cache to see the icons.
Just a thought
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - Mix - Apr 29, 2020
I noticed these about 2 hours ago while I was making a few threads and I wasn't sure if it was just me or just me. Really hap[py to see these icons changed.
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - Ombra - Apr 30, 2020
Well done, thank you for keeping HF up to date 🕵️
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - Toosii - Apr 30, 2020
Nice. Keep up the good work Xerotic :).
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - Vitani - Apr 30, 2020
Nice! So far it's looking good, and hopefully this will make things easier going forward. Keep up the good work!
RE: Icon Library Upgrade - Yin Yang - Apr 30, 2020
The styling and new icons look really dope! Great job as always Xerotic