Is it just me or is anyone else have a missing youtube icon too? #fab-youtube does not work for me

Where are you trying to use it? In a setting? a theme?

In the easy responsive footer component - the twitter and facebook icons are showing? [image]

It works ok for me, I’d double check your settings… you do need to have it in two places. My settings (the defaults) look like this: [Screen Shot 2020-09-03 at 10.29.11 PM]

I had advice from Dax because I wanted to add a logo in first-box and she helped me but I need to do it accessibly via the markup and include alt text. So I took the html and css and have created a static version of the footer that includes a logo in the mark up rather than the css. So I no longer h…

thanks Stephen, the twitter and facebook icons work though? Can you advise how I do that? Or am I better off just uploading assets and pointing at those?

The Facebook and Twitter icons are already used elsewhere in Discourse, which is why they’re available. What @Bcat posted above is the source of the YouTube SVG icon, so you can paste that in place of what you have now and it’ll work in your HTML.

[image] Bcat: <svg id="fab-youtube" viewBox="0 0 576 512" style="width: 20px;fill: #fff;"> <path d="M549.655 124.083c-6.281-23.65-24.787-42.276-48.284-48.597C458.781 64 288 64 288 64S117.22 64 74.629 75.486c-23.497 6.322-42.003 24.947-48.284 48.597-11.412 42.867-11.412 132.305-11.412 132.305s0…

and thanks for your help too Kris!

#fab-youtube doesn't work

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Stephen (Stephen) September 4, 2020, 2:57am 6

You’re still going to need it specified in the back end for the icon to be available for use within the page. Discourse doesn’t blindly load every FontAwesome Icon, that would be really resource-heavy.

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