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Re: Show HN: HN Status Page in the style of HN with detailed metrics

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I guess I'm used to nearly a megabyte of javascript coming over the network, but... Four embedded fonts? Just to get the character ⓘ and a checkmark, both of which are just regular unicode characters that these font files mis-encode? Does anyone even look at anything any more?

Most of the fonts loaded are variations of Open Sans, which are used throughout the pages. We'll look into improving the degradation when the icon font loads; it's just the Octicon font set. Thanks for pointing this out.

Re: Show HN: HN Status Page in the style of HN with detailed metrics

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post #11
post #3

I guess I'm used to nearly a megabyte of javascript coming over the network, but... Four embedded fonts? Just to get the character ⓘ and a checkmark, both of which are just regular unicode characters that these font files mis-encode? Does anyone even look at anything any more?

Most of the fonts loaded are variations of Open Sans, which are used throughout the pages. We'll look into improving the degradation when the icon font loads; it's just the Octicon font set. Thanks for pointing this out.

Why not use whatever font hn uses? hehe

Re: Show HN: HN Status Page in the style of HN with detailed metrics

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post #3

I guess I'm used to nearly a megabyte of javascript coming over the network, but... Four embedded fonts? Just to get the character ⓘ and a checkmark, both of which are just regular unicode characters that these font files mis-encode? Does anyone even look at anything any more?

In FireFox you can set gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false in about:config and have a much faster web experience.

It's especially super useful on mobile.

Re: Show HN: HN Status Page in the style of HN with detailed metrics

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post #11
post #3

I guess I'm used to nearly a megabyte of javascript coming over the network, but... Four embedded fonts? Just to get the character ⓘ and a checkmark, both of which are just regular unicode characters that these font files mis-encode? Does anyone even look at anything any more?

Most of the fonts loaded are variations of Open Sans, which are used throughout the pages. We'll look into improving the degradation when the icon font loads; it's just the Octicon font set. Thanks for pointing this out.

Instead of using Octicon, you could use the Unicode characters for circle-i U+24D8, checkmark U+2713, and calendar U+1F4C5.

Re: Show HN: HN Status Page in the style of HN with detailed metrics

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Hi Corben - I like the marketing angle! Just some feedback from a potential customer. I wouldn't use hund.io today because of this: "Our self-healing infrastructure is distributed across multiple AWS regions and availability zones. We run critical services in in."

I want my monitoring service and status page to have 0% overlap with my infrastructure because we all know that cloud providers sometimes have global downtime. It would be awesome if you could let users decide which cloud platform their service was hosted on: Azure, GCP, AWS, DO, etc.

Besides that the product looks great! And there is definitely a need for a combined monitoring / status page service!

On a side note, can you talk a bit about how you've approached the design theming/customization feature?

Re: Show HN: HN Status Page in the style of HN with detailed metrics

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Hi Corben - I like the marketing angle! Just some feedback from a potential customer. I wouldn't use hund.io today because of this: "Our self-healing infrastructure is distributed across multiple AWS regions and availability zones. We run critical services in in." I want my monitoring service and status page to have 0% overlap with my infrastructure because we all know that cloud providers sometimes have global downt…

Thanks! We understand that it's important for monitoring and status page's to be distributed, and separate from your infrastructure. That said, our application is designed to be highly-available at all levels. With our enterprise plan, we are capable of hosting on different infrastructure.

The design customization allows uploading brand images, and gives full CSS customization as well as custom HTML. More about the customization can be found in our knowledge base here: https://hund.io/help/documentation/customization. We also plan on providing support for "page fixtures" to allow rearranging and changing how the information on the page is presented. You can see a little more on them in our roadmap here: https://trello.com/c/HeHVXFkQ/84-page-fixtures

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