Remove CDN and Google dependencies

[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