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by apathy 5936 days ago
People who like to see at a glance where a bookmark goes often care. Bad titles are one thing, but not even knowing what's at the other end of the link is really irritating. Likewise, it's nice if you use browser tabs.

It's so simple to add a favicon and the branding payoff is immediate -- why wouldn't you? Most of the large community sites I've worked on or with have benefited from this trivial change far out of proportion to the 90 seconds it took to Gimp a photo/logo down to size.