Few days ago, I created a one page website using Gemini.
It used icon from lucideicons or something like that. Then suddenly one day i see the site not loading properly. Found out the issue was icon library.
Asked gemini to replace with something more reliable. it replaced with fontawesome icons (this fixed the issue but previous icons were nicer).
Now, please suggest me which icons should i tell gemini to use that has nice icons in free versions, won’t have outage issue and make my site unresponsive, loads fast.
This is an example of a problem with using AI to do things for you. You need to understand what it does. You do not and you are asking for help. What have you done to solve the problem yourself, other than use AI?
You should attempt to understand and AI can help with that. Ask Gemini to explain things. Ask it what is the problem with the icon library.
All of them have nice icons (subjective request)
They will be free or people wont mention them.
If your site becomes unresponsive due to an icon file request, youve coded your site poorly.
CloudFlare is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) used by many websites hosted elsewhere. CDNs cache websites in various locations in the world for faster retrieval local to requests. They also provide protection for stuff like DDoS attacks (that link was auto-generated). The CloudFlare CDNs are specified by DNS. The CloudFlare failure was caused by their DNS system. (Yes I did use AI to help me with that but most of it is my own knowledge.) We can say that websites use Cloudflare’s CDN/proxy service.
Sounds like a frustrating experience! Lucide icons do look great, but I’ve seen similar reliability issues when the CDN hiccups. If you want something that’s both visually nice and super reliable, you might try telling Gemini to use Heroicons or Remix Icon. Both have solid free sets, load fast, and rarely break because they’re lightweight SVG-based libraries. They also blend nicely with modern UI designs—almost as clean as Lucide, sometimes even better.