# Flashing warning when adding Font Awesome 5 to Discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2월 5, 2018, 3:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829 "2018-02-05T15:10:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@foodaginnovators](https://meta.discourse.org/u/foodaginnovators)
#### Post date: [2월 5, 2018, 3:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829/1 "2018-02-05T15:10:35Z")
On self-hosted discourse instance, v2.0.0.beta2 +40, when logged in as basic user with no admin / moderation capability I am seeing the flashing warning with no explanation. The reason for it is recently installed https and need to enable a setting, but this warning shouldn’t be shown to regular users I would think.
Why I’m getting the warning:
`Your website is using SSL. But `force\_https` is not yet enabled in your site settings.`
What basic users see:
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [2월 5, 2018, 3:18오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829/2 "2018-02-05T15:18:28Z")
> [@foodaginnovators](#):
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> I am seeing the flashing warning
What you mean by “flashing warning” and where it was displayed? It is designed to display only inside the admin dashboard. Can you share you a screenshot?
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### Author:  [@foodaginnovators](https://meta.discourse.org/u/foodaginnovators)
#### Post date: [2월 5, 2018, 3:21오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829/3 "2018-02-05T15:21:00Z")
I actually can’t get rid of it now even though I checked enable force https. I see it on posts, not just in admin. Closed tab, hard refresh, logged in and out. This screenshot is from my admin account. I also see it on basic account as well in posts.
See gif:
[](https://cl.ly/Blu0q2dy)
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [2월 5, 2018, 3:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829/4 "2018-02-05T15:31:13Z")
That animated question/exclamation gif icon is not a core feature. One of the plugin you are using should be the reason for that.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2월 5, 2018, 3:33오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829/5 "2018-02-05T15:33:37Z")
There are no plugins installed. Perhaps it’s a theme?
Have you tried safe-mode?
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### Author:  [@foodaginnovators](https://meta.discourse.org/u/foodaginnovators)
#### Post date: [2월 5, 2018, 3:35오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829/6 "2018-02-05T15:35:18Z")
Got it. I put font awesome script into header ``. I guess that was causing it, although when I initially inserted it two days ago I didn’t get the warning. Must be a more efficient way to add font awesome icons that are not available in discourse, that is topic for another post though. For now have used one that is supported out of the box by discourse.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2월 6, 2018, 1:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829/7 "2018-02-06T01:05:16Z")
We will eventually upgrade from Font Awesome 4 (which we already use heavily for the glyphs in Discourse) to Font Awesome 5. What’s so urgent that you needed 5 right now, just out of curiosity?
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### Author:  [@foodaginnovators](https://meta.discourse.org/u/foodaginnovators)
#### Post date: [2월 6, 2018, 1:50오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829/8 "2018-02-06T01:50:37Z")
Awesome! Honestly, I was trying to use an external link alt icon that wasn’t supported. But I’m totally fine with the regular external link icon and now using that which works. So nothing urgent.
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### Author:  [@Alankrit\_Choudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alankrit_Choudh)
#### Post date: [6월 24, 2018, 8:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829/9 "2018-06-24T20:28:24Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> We will eventually upgrade from Font Awesome 4 (which we already use heavily for the glyphs in Discourse) to Font Awesome 5. What’s so urgent that you needed 5 right now, just out of curiosity?
> **[Font Awesome](https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery&q=discourse)**
>
> The internet's icon library + toolkit. Used by millions of designers, devs, & content creators. Open-source. Always free. Always awesome.
this is awesome on font awesome 5.1.0,
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2월 4, 2019, 3:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829/10 "2019-02-04T15:54:23Z")
FA5 was added in [2.2.0.beta5](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-2-0-beta5-release-notes/103097), and has since been released to [stable](https://blog.discourse.org/2019/02/discourse-2-2-released/) as well.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2월 4, 2019, 3:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flashing-warning-when-adding-font-awesome-5-to-discourse/79829/11 "2019-02-04T15:54:25Z")