Dependencies on other sites blocking [CODE]

Signbank / Global-signbank

An online sign dictionary and sign database management system for research purposes. Developed originally by Steve Cassidy/ This repo is a fork for the Dutch version, previously called 'NGT-Signbank'.

http://signbank.cls.ru.nl

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

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Dependencies on other sites blocking [CODE] #1306

Closed susanodd closed 2 months ago

susanodd commented 3 months ago

There were huge problems just now loading the Search page.

Our code depends on cdnjs.cloudflare.com to retrieve packages.

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.5/js/select2.full.js"></script>

You could see this in the Network traffic that it was unable to retrieve this. Thus Signbank fails but it is another site that is failing.

Do we want to install these on our server?

Woseseltops commented 3 months ago

The major advantage of using external sources like Cloudflare for these libraries is that it simplifies:

Upgrading to a newer version: you just increase the number in the template. We rarely upgrade, though, so I don't think this argument should have a lot of weight.
It simplifies a new installation. This argument too goes away if you either (1) include it in our repo (not sure if allowed, but I think we do it for some other Javascript stuff as well) or (2) add to the Ansible playbooks so it installs automatically.

In other words, both reasons aren't that great, so go ahead improving this situation :)

susanodd commented 2 months ago

This seems to be a one-off. Perhaps it coincided with the other world-wide software problems on other sites.