LW appears to have acquired a new favicon, "<X" in place of the prior "Lw". This change wasn't announced and I don't know what the new icon means. Can someone explain it to me?
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The problem I feel about it is that it doesn't constitute a whole, the picture on a favicon should be one button-like thing.
I would have posted this if I had known the term "favicon".
I realize whoever thought of this must have thought they were being clever, but the previous "Lw" is far superior: it is much easier to recognize and spot quickly (which I assume is the whole point of "favicons"), and the colors better reflect those of the site.
The favicon is basically a logo for the site, and should resemble the header as much as possible.
How do you know that the old one was easier to recognize and spot quickly? I think most people are being tricked by introspection because the old one is familiar. I agree that colors matching the site should make it easier to learn, but I'm not sure how strong that effect would be.
The old one consisted of the characters "Lw", the abbreviation for the site name, with colors resembling the site's color scheme. These are all straightforward indicators. While I understand the intention of the new icon, it is not nearly as straightforward.
The new one looks like it could be part of the browser interface. (Though this is partly due to how Firefox displays favicons now; I suspect this would be reduced in other browsers.)
I... suppose if '<' means 'less than' in typical mathematican notation, 'x' must mean 'wrong', to have the total meaning be something like 'less than wrong'...
Yeah, it also just occurred to me, after I typed that comment, that wronger than wrong would also be a valid interpretation of this. Perhaps I ought let whoever made the change to interpret it, instead of offering my guesses. :-)
Sorry. A new try will be up soon.
(And I've downgraded my self assessment of the quality of my sense of humour. For what it's worth, this one was only intended for a short residency.)
Ok, so just about everyone is complaining about this and nobody is doing anything. Can someone please tell me who might be responsible so I may contact them and ask them to revert the change?
Hmm, if you know him maybe it'd be more effective if you asked him rather than some random stranger? Especially since I am having a hard time coming up with anything to write.
I'm not very scary, and you're not some random stranger. You're Armok_GoB, 800+ karma. (New favicon will be up soon.)
Hehe, thanks! I guess I'm a bit shy in front of people my brain doesn't classify as fungible*.
((* probably not a correct usage, but the statement is technically correct because it's the same brain doing the classifying and is doing it incorrectly in exactly the same way as, uh, itself. :p Also not that this is not necessarily somehting I endorse, and I'm just saying it because I were just reminded I should not be shy. ))
I'm using Firefox and it still says "Lw". I don't know whether it was changed back, or just never changed in Firefox. Either way, thanks for teaching me the word Favicon!
I see the old Favicon on both Safari and Chrome. I even emptied the cache in Safari. I wonder why we aren't seeing the same image as the others.
On further inspection, Firefox is doing something interesting. When I type the start of the LW URL in the URL bar, the dropdown suggestion menu has the "<X" favicon, but when I actually go to the page, I get the "Lw" favicon.
How anomalous. I'm finally seeing the "<X" favicon on my phone, but still no chalge on my computer. Are other people running OS X lion?
I had assumed it was a bug (I hadn't looked sufficiently closely). It's... less than ideal.
The colour in particular I don't like, even though I can see why a green cross doesn't work.
So a red X would be an ideal favicon.