{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alfredxing/brick/issues/106","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alfredxing/brick/issues/106/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alfredxing/brick/issues/106/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alfredxing/brick/issues/106/events","html_url":"https://github.com/alfredxing/brick/issues/106","id":55247056,"number":106,"title":"Update on the state of open-source webfonts","user":{"login":"alfredxing","id":2704010,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2704010?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing","html_url":"https://github.com/alfredxing","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alfredxing/brick/labels/announcement","name":"announcement","color":"666666"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alfredxing/brick/labels/discussion","name":"discussion","color":"FFCBDB"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alfredxing/brick/labels/meta","name":"meta","color":"424242"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-01-23T05:39:47Z","updated_at":"2015-01-23T16:46:09Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I was going to post this a few weeks ago, and @larsschwarz just reminded me in #105.\r\n\r\nI'm not exactly sure when everything happened, but here's a rough timeline from what I gathered:\r\n- March 15, 2014: Brick launches (mainly on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/)).\r\n- Summer/Fall 2014: Google starts serving its fonts in WOFF2 format and drastically improves font rendering (not sure of the time frame; I hadn't noticed until #99).\r\n- July 17, 2014: Chrome 37, with DirectWrite support on Windows, [releases in the beta channel](http://blog.chromium.org/2014/07/chrome-37-beta-directwrite-on-windows.html).\r\n- August 26, 2014: Chrome 37 is [released in the stable channel](http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.ca/2014/08/stable-channel-update_26.html).\r\n\r\nIn other words, whether Brick has been an influence or not (we probably will never know&mdash;unless someone knows somebody at Google who can tell us?), the quality of Google Fonts in all modern browsers is now more or less satisfactory. This is a huge win for the realm of open-source webfonts, and as I mentioned in #105, I applaud Google for making these changes.\r\n\r\nBrick will continue to fully operate and grow. However, since I'm busier now with more school and an internship over the summer, I won't have _as much_ time to work on the project. I will, though, pick up development if I (or some of you) feel that webfonts need improving again.\r\n\r\nFinally, I'd like to thank all of the contributors to the project so far, all of the font designers who contributed countless hours to crafting these gorgeous fonts, [Fastly](http://www.fastly.com/) and [Linode](https://www.linode.com/) for their ongoing support.\r\n\r\nOh, and some quick stats:\r\n- Over 100 million requests made since launch (I will update this number once the Fastly dashboard gets back online)\r\n- Around 100,000 unique visitors per day\r\n- Used by [Playlist.com](http://www.playlist.com/) and [Buffer's blog (buffersocial)](https://blog.bufferapp.com/), which make up the majority of traffic\r\n- More than 5000 sites using Brick in the past 30 days alone\r\n\r\nThanks for making all of this work!\r\nAlfred\r\n\r\n_Postscript._ I'm still working on [that redesign](https://github.com/alfredxing/brick/issues/87). It's not anywhere near completion but I am still working on it."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alfredxing/brick/issues/comments/71223216","html_url":"https://github.com/alfredxing/brick/issues/106#issuecomment-71223216","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alfredxing/brick/issues/106","id":71223216,"user":{"login":"alfredxing","id":2704010,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2704010?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing","html_url":"https://github.com/alfredxing","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/alfredxing/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-23T16:46:09Z","updated_at":"2015-01-23T16:46:09Z","body":"Update on stats: the total requests number is 120M as of today. I've updated this above as well."}}