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by dang 897 days ago
HN is still serving the orange Y for favicons. Only the Y to the left of "Hacker News" in the top bar now has a transparent background.

However, there was a brief period where we were serving the transparent Y for favicons before I noticed that and corrected it; I wonder if the transparent Y somehow got into a cache? Is there a way to force-refresh?
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slymax 890 days ago
Unfortunately the issue still persists and it doesn't seem to be related to caching.

I think the problem might be that NetNewsWire doesn't support SVG favicons (/y18.svg) and that /favicon.ico isn't available as a fallback. Were there any changes regarding these files recently?

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dang 890 days ago
There were! That would likely be the issue then.

What do I need to do to make /favicon.ico available as a fallback?

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slymax 889 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/favicon.ico would need to return the favicon instead of 404 Not Found
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dang 889 days ago
I've put it back. Does it work now?
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slymax 889 days ago
Yes, it's working again. Thank you!
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