[professor farnsworth futurama GIF] We’ve temporarily added the X logo as an available icon in core Discourse to allow everyone to make the branding switch on their own. Upgrading the entirety of Font Awesome in Discourse is a very large project, so this is meant to allow a workaround in the mean t…

[image] JammyDodger: Upgrading the entirety of Font Awesome in Discourse is a very large project, so this is meant to allow a workaround in the mean time. When this eventually happens, will it be optional? I don’t care what Elon says, I’m calling it Twitter, it is not “x”, and I’m keeping it …

[image] Pyx : When this eventually happens, will it be optional? Even if it was the default behavior, you could still use the same code in reverse to replace the 𝕏 with the :bird:.

I’m not a developer, so I don’t know how to do this, but when using these instructions I get an admin warning banner that points to this page… [image] Modernizing inline script tags for templates & JS API Development Using <script type='text/discourse-plu…

That’s good to know, but when I tried with the ‘x-twitter’ icon, it gave me an empty blank space. When I added ‘fa-x-twitter’ to the list of SVG icons, there was no change. What should I be doing to make it show up officially?

Brand icons need fab (font awesome brand) as a prefix

I just saw that from your other post, thanks. Based on what I saw on the FA website I thought it was just supposed to be fa-x-twitter

Maybe you were confused by the html example [image] But you can for example see the fab here [image]

Probably. I just point and click like a madman sometimes.

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You don’t need that anymore as the X icon is included in FontAwesome 6 and Discourse was updated to use that.

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Updating Twitter icon to X logo

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