[stonogo]

I guess I'm used to nearly a megabyte of javascript coming over the network, but...

Four embedded fonts? Just to get the character ⓘ and a checkmark, both of which are just regular unicode characters that these font files mis-encode?

Does anyone even look at anything any more?

[TekMol]

In FireFox you can set gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false in about:config and have a much faster web experience.

It's especially super useful on mobile.

[OJFord]

That renders this site more broken though, since there's just brown squares all over the page instead of characters from whatever font. I suppose due to no fallback?

[corben]

Most of the fonts loaded are variations of Open Sans, which are used throughout the pages. We'll look into improving the degradation when the icon font loads; it's just the Octicon font set. Thanks for pointing this out.

[sp332]

Instead of using Octicon, you could use the Unicode characters for circle-i U+24D8, checkmark U+2713, and calendar U+1F4C5.

[rodrigocoelho]

You can subset the font with Fontello.

http://fontello.com

[vim_wannabe]

Why not use whatever font hn uses? hehe

[flixic]

It's probably some extension, because my 0-extension Chrome loads just two images, one CSS, one JS: https://i.imgur.com/kyhBCF9.png

[milankragujevic]

You're looking at the real HN, not at the Status Page HN..

[kroltan]

Are you sure? There's a lot of stuff going on here, and I'm on Firefox. No adblocker or any addons that meddle with page requests or content. https://i.imgur.com/e141uBx.png

[tejtm]

ahh... so thats what all those those empty square boxes are

they don't fail very gracefully