# Where is the FA icon seeding for Discourse?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 11, 2026, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783 "2026-08-11T11:03:52Z")
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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2026, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/13 "2026-08-12T15:02:21Z")

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> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/42554>
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> Previously, the icon pickers for badges and group flair only offered icons alrea…dy in the site's SVG sprite: \`only\_available\` arrived as a query-string value where both \`"false"\` and \`""\` are truthy in Ruby, so every picker had been silently restricted since 2023 — and even unrestricted, the endpoint capped results at the first 500 of 2,000+ icons alphabetically. A badge could not use a new icon until it was manually added to \`svg\_icon\_subset\` (https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783).
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> This change lets the pickers search the entire icon set: browsing lists the sprite's icons first, search covers everything, and the grid loads pages of 100 as it scrolls. The server reports \`has\_more\` so clients carry no page-size knowledge, ships \`\<symbol\>\` markup only for icons the viewer's theme sprite cannot render, and browsed symbols stay scoped to the picker — only a picked icon is added to the page sprite, so it keeps rendering until saving adds it to the sprite for everyone.
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> \### Before / after
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> \*\*Searching an icon outside the subset\*\*
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> \<img width="990" height="165" alt="01-search-non-subset-icon" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d35562f0-66e6-49c7-b584-497a24cae9e1" /\>
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> \*\*Scrolling past the old 500-icon cap\*\*
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> \<img width="990" height="395" alt="02-infinite-scroll" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/73fd724f-ee0e-47b8-930d-7d2cefa08797" /\>
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> \*\*A picked non-subset icon rendering in the trigger\*\*
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> \<img width="602" height="160" alt="03-picked-icon-in-trigger" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8d41d1be-8aeb-48f7-b9bc-d00a1f33dfb5" /\>

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