Some Font Awesome icons don't work

MPA

For instance, "fa-robot-astromech"
Thanks.

clarkwinkelmann

MPA Flarum ships with FontAwesome v5 Free. You can check the list of available icons here https://fontawesome.com/v5/search?m=free

The icon you mention doesn't seem to exist in FontAwesome v5. It seems to only be part of the Pro version of v6.

There is an extension available to use FontAwesome v6 including entering your Pro license https://discuss.flarum.org/d/31219-blomstra-font-awesome-6

Mallinger

clarkwinkelmann Unfortunately, the comment icon in normal weight isn't included in the free version either. That's sad because this icon is used in the stock version of Flarum.

.DiscussionListItem-count::before {
    [...]
    font-family: 'Font Awesome 5 Free';
    font-weight: 400;
    content: "\f075";
    [...]
}

The heavy weight version for the 'unread' status is available in FA v5 Free though.

Even stranger, FontAwesome itself claims that this icon is included in the free version.

https://fontawesome.com/v5/search?q=comment&o=r&m=free

clarkwinkelmann

Mallinger where do you have an issue with the comment icon?

I am able to use both fas fa-comment and far fa-comment as a tag icon without any issue on my test forum.

Mallinger

clarkwinkelmann where do you have an issue with the comment icon?

On every index page the icon on the right side indicating the number of posts in a thread. This icon has no fa* fa-* class but uses FA5 as mentioned above.

Another observation, here in this forum: If there is a discussion I have never visited before with x posts and I then read the whole thread until the end the number becomes x-1. Probably the meaning is different a) the number of unread posts, b) the number of replies, but in the end it looks strange.

clarkwinkelmann

Mallinger did you make any customization to Flarum's head HTML or custom CSS that affects FontAwesome, or installed the FontAwesome v6 extension?

Can you check your browser network tab to see if any file with fa-regular in the name is loaded or encounters an error? On my test forum the file that's loaded is called assets/fonts/fa-regular-400.woff2 but the file extension could be different depending on your browser.

If the font file is missing on the filesystem you can run php flarum assets:publish to have Flarum copy them again to the correct place.

For your second question I think the logic is as follows: if there are unread posts, the number of unread posts is shown (that value is estimated and can be slightly wrong if many posts were deleted in the middle of the unread conversation). If there are no unread posts, it shows the number of replies (so it would be the total posts minus the first one).

Mallinger

Thank you for your effort.

clarkwinkelmann did you make any customization to Flarum's head HTML or custom CSS that affects FontAwesome, or installed the FontAwesome v6 extension?

No, I didn't.

clarkwinkelmann Can you check your browser network tab to see if any file with fa-regular in the name is loaded or encounters an error? On my test forum the file that's loaded is called assets/fonts/fa-regular-400.woff2 but the file extension could be different depending on your browser.

Well, here is the problem. With Google Chrome, the font files are not loaded reliably from localhost. When I reload the page without the browser cache, some fonts that were missing before are loaded, and others that were there before are suddenly missing. In Firefox I have no problems.

So this doesn't look like a Flarum problem.

clarkwinkelmann

Mallinger do you have any ad blocker installed? We've seen problems similar to this in the past with some browser add-ons.

Mallinger

clarkwinkelmann do you have any ad blocker installed?

Not in the Chrome browser. I hope the problem will resolve itself once I bring my forum online.