Remove CDN and Google dependencies

Jacob Moen

CDNs will make the site load faster - that's what they're for - so that users around the world does not have to go all the way to your server to fetch resources, but can fetch them closer to their location.

rfc2822

@Jacob-Moen said:

CDNs will make the site load faster - that's what they're for - so that users around the world does not have to go all the way to your server to fetch resources, but can fetch them closer to their location.

Thanks, I know what CDNs are used for And I want our users to fetch our resources, and not the resources of Google (or Akamai, or Amazon, or whoever else), and get tracked at the same time.

Jacob Moen

I knew that you know that
I merely want to point out that CDN is not entirely evil - it makes a difference in how fast the site loads, especially on mobile devices.
cdnjs is an open source CDN - I think that there might be other options.

bitspook

I believe that I read with Google Fonts that you can store a copy on your server and they don't get fetched. Privacy concerns are, and should be, paramount.

Jacob Moen

I agree that it should be optional.
I would like to have the choice myself.

rfc2822

@bitspook said:

I believe that I read with Google Fonts that you can store a copy on your server and they don't get fetched.

It was possible once, but (for obvious reasons) Google has stopped that. However, you can still generate/download Web fonts, for instance on www.fontsquirrel.com (my favorite site).

Privacy concerns are, and should be, paramount.

Maybe it could be implemented as a set of URL variables + a switch that chooses between the self-hosted and the CDN set?

julian

For all intents and purposes, the only dependency we call out to is Google Web Fonts, and that's mostly a theme decision, so that's not a problem to revise (either now, or in a future default theme)

Where's the call to bootstrapcdn?

phit

@julian https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/search?utf8=✓&q=maxcdn&type=Code

an option to turn that off in favor of local css would be nice, and would also improve performance when http/2 is in use

julian

Ah, skins. Yes, we could extract that out to a plugin...

Alien

Yep... I think "googleapis" in China is too slow... And many CDN are slow in China,too. I want to replace them, but I don't know what should I do. Is there anybody can help me?

sanatisharif

many CDN are slow in IR IRAN,too!
this is a nice feature if we can replaced them!

Alien

@sanatisharif
Yes!

Andy1999

@Alien I think you could use MoeCDN