Missing many font awesome icons

[torusJKL]

I'm trying to add icons to my categories and it looks like the available icons are very limited.
I'm using 1.17.0.

is there a way to import the rest of the icons or specific ones that I would like to use?

[dunlix]

@torusjkl There is no way to import them to the ACP, but if you download the free version of fontawesome for web (or paid if you have it) you can put them in your nodebb uploads folder and reference the CSS for it. here is a post that may be helpful:
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/15622/fontawesome/9

[torusJKL]

@dunlix thanks, I will look into this.

But I just wonder where this restriction comes from.
Why wouldn't it be possible to show all free icons in the ACP?

e.g. this one
https://fontawesome.com/icons/toolbox?style=solid

[PitaJ]

@torusjkl we have an older version of FA, v4. https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/icons/

FA5 would break a lot of things, and has a different licensing model.

[torusJKL]

@pitaj I see.
Thanks for the explanation.