 Edit: not actually down after all, just the default endpoint fonts.googleapis.com doesn't return a 200 (see comment in thread) Ooof. "down for everyone or just me" is reporting that fonts.googleapis.com is, in fact, down. No wonder half the sites I'm trying to access are stalling. I thought it was a problem with this public wifi network I'm on... 10 comments
 Welp, here's my reason for always self-hosting custom fonts despite Google making it unreasonably difficult. @darius A pattern I love is caching Fonts responses via a Worker and serving those instead: https://ruddra.com/cloudflare-cache-google-fonts/  @colin_howells @darius Aaaaaand then Cloudflare also goes down. Don't forget to have a last-resort local copy of your fonts!
 @darius Aw, Google can't invasively track users without a cookie popup anymore. Poor them. The browser extension: "Local CDN" Means, you will not have these types of issues, but also it improves browsing speed, while also improving privacy. Take it a step further and import the settings from Local CDN and add them to uBlock Origin, and it gets even better. The more you know... @darius ok so believe it or not o got a really helpful answer almost immediately. TLDR it’s not down, but the url being used to test should be more specific to get the right answer. https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto //should always return a 200 https://fonts.googleapis.com //not necessarily going to return a 200 @darius im just an internet bimbo, no idea how this works but my brother is in tech and is a mentor to me. We talk a lot. And shit is definitely wierd lately |
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@darius let me see if this has been reported…