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Re:Show HN: Linkidex – Bookmarks, but way better. by marginalia_nu on Monday October 10, 2022 @03:34PM (#33155533)
What do you do when there is no favicon, or it looks like this? https://www.marginalia.nu/favicon.ico
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Re:Show HN: Linkidex – Bookmarks, but way better. by rdavidr on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:05PM (#33155858)
A naive solution could be to just display the first letter of whatever the user has named the given link. Not as helpful as a favicon, but it will prevent the page from looking broken if a bunch of favicons don't exist.
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Re:Show HN: Linkidex – Bookmarks, but way better. by oezi on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:18PM (#33155963)
Lots of options: Opera on android generates a favicon if the domain is less than 6 letters just from the letters. Use of colors (hashed from the name I guess) also goes a long way.

No way to fix ugly favicons though. Name of of domain can still be used as well.

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