Tris20 reported a bug where attempting to use a free, solid FontAwesome icon (e.g., beer) as a Discourse reaction results in the system incorrectly adding the far- prefix. Since the far-beer icon does not exist in the free tier, the reaction fails to load. Firepup650 suggested testing fas-beer, but Tris20 confirmed this also fails. Arkshine analyzed the code, noting the system expects a far- version for the ‘liked’ state which is missing for this icon. They proposed a workaround using a plugin script to replace the missing far-beer with the valid beer icon: workaround. Tris20 accepted this solution. Finally, Moin noted that the issue appears to be resolved in a recent Discourse core update (PR #38779), which now includes a check to fallback to the solid version if the regular icon is unavailable.
I’m trying to add the free, solid, beer icon as my discourse reactions like icon:
Unfortunately the far- prefix is added to the “beer” text
and the regular icon is not included in the free tier:
so the icon does not load:
If this is intended, is there a workaround for this?
By wild chance, does fas-beer as the icon name work?
The icon works if you can’t like it anymore, but not when you can.
Looking at the code, when you liked already:
When you did not like yet:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-reactions/blob/main/assets/javascripts/discourse/widgets/discourse-reactions-reaction-button.js#L130-L136
It expects a far— version, which doesn’t seem to exist for beer. 
A quick solution in your case is to use the API to replace the far-beer, for example:
<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8">
api.replaceIcon("far-beer", "beer");
</script>
I don’t know if a new setting should be introduced here or add some logic to use the same non-far version if the far-version doesn’t exist.
Sadly not, it’s empty just like above.
Thanks for taking a detailed look at this. Using the html above is definitely a good workaround for the forseeable future. We did this originally to replace the heart, but it completely slipped my mind that it could be used again to replace the far-beer too.
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I think this was fixed in
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38779
There is now a check if there is a regular icon with a fallback to the solid version