Add icon for BlueSky (work-in-progress)

[hanneoberman]

To update the rainbowR committee page to include BlueSky links

[hanneoberman]

Seems that FA needs to be updated to v6.5.2 or higher, instead of current v5.15. See https://fontawesome.com/icons/bluesky?f=brands&s=solid

[EllaKaye]

Hi @hanneoberman. Thanks for picking this up. It's been on my to-do list for a while to update this function to include all the latest Font Awesome icons (though with the Bluesky one being the main reason to do this). Additionally, the rainbowr.org source will need updating to use the latest FA stylesheets so that the new icons are recognised there (it's not enough just to add the Bluesky item to icon_names here). We currently have this, but when I looked into it a few months ago, it seemed like the whole way Font Awesome works has changed since I last worked on distilltools, so it needs a bit more thinking about, both here and on the website.

[EllaKaye]

We currently have this, but when I looked into it a few months ago, it seemed like the whole way Font Awesome works has changed since I last worked on distilltools, so it needs a bit more thinking about, both here and on the website.

That said, I think there's a strong argument that the best way forward for the rainbowR website is to remove reliance on distilltools::icon_link() altogether, and my own fumblings with Font Awesome, and make use of Quarto and Bootstrap features and the fontawesome extension (or some other Quarto icon extension) instead. I haven't tested it, but something like this should work (maybe with some tweaks to the SCSS to get the buttons to look like the current icon-link styling):

[{{< fa brands bluesky >}} Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/rainbowr.org){.btn .btn-primary}

This would be much more maintainable than relying on distilltools, which essentially became largely obsolete with the release of Quarto.

[hanneoberman]

I agree 100%! I hoped it would have been easy just to add 1 extra icon. I already knew the 'solution' in the last commit wouldn't work, but I just wanted to try anyways. Let's indeed try to have rainbowr.org without this dependency. Let me know if there's something you want me to do! Obvs not a pressing issue! Maybe nice to have had fixed by the time the new committee is added to the website and/or the conference comes around?

[hanneoberman]

That said, the URL for the blog post about the icons did change, so those edits could be merged!