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by pokebowl 3511 days ago
I saw no favicon and closed this thing immediately.

Seriously guys, it's 2016 and you still don't have a favicon. Not having a favicon on your docs page is plain bad for a few reasons:

1. I have zero context about your page. If I don't have that 20x20 square on my tab anchoring me to reality, my 2 second attention span will have made me forget where I am even before I load your page on my internet-connected toaster oven's 7 segment display. Not. Cool.

2. No support for 7 segment or e-ink displays. WTF?? How am I supposed to use this for IoT applications, like my toaster oven[1] or my dishwasher.

3. This is how it shows up on my kindle: http://67.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhw2rvgsnu1qzhofn.jpg ARE YOU INCOMPETENT??

[1] See bullet point 1

[2] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

[3] http://jepsen.io/

[4] https://palantir.com/spying-on-my-shit

1 comments

> I saw no favicon and closed this thing immediately. Seriously guys, it's 2016 and you still don't have a favicon.

This is the sort of knee-jerk dismissal that the Show HN guidelines ask you to avoid when commenting here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Favicons have their importance but it's just rude to swipe someone's entire work off the table this way.

Edit: Doh. Carry on.

I mean, it's obviously satire, and it's taking a shot at something you've previously said is damaging to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739

I'd agree that pokebowl's comment is a suboptimal way of getting that point across.

> obviously

Oops. I completely missed that.

This is what comes of moderating in haste.