Bluesky icon not showing up

[RemiAllio]

Hi!

First of all, thank you for this awesome template.

Today I tried to add my bluesky account to my webpage. Given that I was using your template since several years now, I had to follow this tutorial to add my bluesky button (while it is available from you current template).

Now the link to my bluesky account is working but I didn't find a way to have the icon showing up.
I thought it was because my "assets" directory was not up to date so I tried to copy the last changes you made in "fonts", "css", and "js" directories to my "assets" directory but it still doesn't work.

I therefore prefer to ask you if you have any idea to explain why it is not working before doing something wrong 😅

You can find my repository here in case it helps.
Thank you very much for your help!

Best regards,
Rémi

P.S: while I was using several windows on my navigator, I might have tried to commit something directly in your repository, sorry about that...

[rjzupkoii]

I took a quick look at your repository and it looks like the Font Awesome hasn't been updated in in seven years - you will need to update to at least version 6.5.2 that is included in the current version of the template in order to have the Bluesky icon. Note that the Font Awesome updates on a fairly regular basis so even the template is a bit behind the current 6.7.2 version.

Actually updating Font Awesome is a bit of a trickier process since the Java Script that is deployed as part of the template goes through a build process that minimizes the *.js file that is deployed, so you need to install NPM and the like to get that to work.

[RemiAllio]

Thank you for your very quick answer!

I am not sure I understand well enough how Jekyll and Font Awesome work to be able to update Font Awesome without breaking my website...

I was hoping that I could copy and paste some files from your repository to make it work, but you seem to say that this is not possible, right?

If not, I will try to find a way to display a custom icon using another method. I don't want to break everything.

Thank you for your help anyway!
Best,
Rémi

[rjzupkoii]

You don't need to know much about Jekyll to update the Font Awesome to the newest version, but unfortunately it is a bit more involved than just just copying a couple files. The short version is that you need to follow the directions in the README to locally, then update the Font Awesome files (mostly copy-paste), run npm run uglify, verify that everything looks good locally, and then push to your GitHub repository.

[RemiAllio]

Hi!
Thank you very much for pointing that out!
I followed your advice and everything works fine now!

Running the website locally was very helpful, thank you!
Best,
Rémi