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No login box some 1.5 hours back. Page at TLD/session/login almost plain.

meetdilip I can't seem to replicate this issue ? Are you referring to the login function not being available ? Can you send a screenshot ?

Thanks

[deleted] Are you referring to the login function not being available ?

Yes.

I will give you a screenshot in a bit. Will check again after some time.

meetdilip Thanks. That's very odd. I can't replicate that here. Can you try the same in an incognito window, or from a different browser ?

[deleted] @meetdilip back in business

Hello @[deleted]
How did you manage to change default font?

[deleted] you can do this with custom CSS

[deleted] yep, sure. This is from my site - you can put this into the custom header

<style>
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Open Sans';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 300;
  src: local('fontawesome'),
       url('/fonts/open-sans-v17-latin-300.woff2'),
       url('/fonts/open-sans-v17-latin-300.woff'); 
}
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Open Sans';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: local('fontawesome'),
       url('/fonts/open-sans-v16-latin-regular.woff2'), 
       url('/fonts/open-sans-v16-latin-regular.woff');
}
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Open Sans';
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: local('fontawesome'),
       url('/fonts/open-sans-v16-latin-italic.woff2'), 
       url('/fonts/open-sans-v16-latin-italic.woff'); 
}
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Open Sans';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 600;
  src: local('fontawesome'),
       url('/fonts/open-sans-v16-latin-600.woff2'),
       url('/fonts/open-sans-v16-latin-600.woff'); 
}
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Open Sans';
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 600;
  src: local('fontawesome'),
       url('/fonts/open-sans-v16-latin-600italic.woff2'),
       url('/fonts/open-sans-v16-latin-600italic.woff'); 
}
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Open Sans';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 700;
  src: local('fontawesome'),
       url('/fonts/open-sans-v16-latin-700.woff2'), 
       url('/fonts/open-sans-v16-latin-700.woff');
}
</style>

Note that I'm using a local path on my own server to provide this to save an extra trip to Google for the fonts. This site will help you host your own locally

https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts

Star that's a no longer existing redirect from an old domain. Try https://forum.phenomlab.com which is fine

Thanks, @[deleted]

PageSpeed Insights says this:
Consider using<link rel=preload>to prioritize fetching resources that are currently requested later in page load.

How to acheive this?

[deleted] You will probably be limited with that because of the way Flarum calls the relevant CSS file. Can you send a screenshot of the file being called ?

[deleted] Just here to say while I'm passing by, you're so damn helpful everytime. Thanks for that!

Kylo thanks ! I appreciate that

Just circling back with an update - the forums at https://forum.phenomlab.com/ are now taking shape on their own - mostly thanks to two new scripts I have written that use the Flarum API. The first one ingests email, breaks each message apart, then creates a post out of it.

This is handy if you're out and about, and are feeling creative. You compile the email, send it to a secured address (one that is not easily guessed or crawled), and let the script work it's magic.

The second is an RSS parser. Phenomlab.com takes a number of technology news feeds and creates posts out of a standard RSS feed. We always provide attribution by including a link to the original article. The real difference here is that we actually discuss the topics rather than just be "force-fed" news.

Of course, I'm keen to get the discussion juices flowing, so please feel free to sign up I certainly have a lot to talk about when it comes to technology and security, and you never know, you may just enjoy it as much as I do !

If anyone is interested in my scripts, do let me know, and I'll provide them here with instructions.