[ryanmcdonough]

There's no guarantee of anything being around.

Anecdotally, I recently worked on a project that used a Flag CDN - worked fine for a long time, then started sporadically failing.

As such I don't think I'd used anything in production hosted on a none static copy CDN like Cloudflare, sure Cloudflare could do down, but we probably all have bigger issues then than my flags not working.

[datascienced]

True! but the mitigation for nothing being guaranteed is to … well avoid free public CDNs :-). Unless they are backed by a big company maybe.

Sprawling these kinds of links in your markdown instead if /assets/icons/mylocalicon.png seems a bit risky. Markdown tends to get used in Github / Local Git which can happily just reference the files stored along with it.

Also maybe hugo/jekyll type sites or internal docs. Same thing.

So the effort posted here is great but I would prefer a zip to a CDN link.

[ryanmcdonough]

Yeah, I suppose as part of a build process you could find references to the icons generated, download them, store locally and use those - the service itself is brilliant, super useful being able to generate those icons on the fly - it's just having it as a dependency for something so key is hard.