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Inconsistency seems to be the name of the game here: depending on which webserver the loadbalancer sends me to (I can only speculate that this is the case?), I
by akersten 7y ago
Inconsistency seems to be the name of the game here: depending on which webserver the loadbalancer sends me to (I can only speculate that this is the case?), I get a different favicon for this webpage! [0]
[0] https://i.imgur.com/GdAmNUt.png https://i.imgur.com/GdAmNUt.png
- ummonk 7y agoProbably an A/B test?
- dhritzkiv 7y agoI wonder what metrics they're measuring for the favicon A/B split.
- foota 7y agoOk... how did you notice this?
- akersten 7y agoI have a habit of opening the same link multiple times, since it's sometimes easier to click the link in the thread than to Ctrl+PageDown to switch tabs. In this case, I had it open, came back to the HN thread to leave a comment, opened the site again to look some more (twice?), came back to the thread and read someone else's comment about consistency, went back to look at what they were saying, and that's when I noticed the icon was different compared to the other three tabs of it I already had open.
- foota 7y agoInteresting. No matter how many times I request it I get the same icon. Probably a caching proxy? Weird that you didn't see the same though.
- akersten 7y agoYeah, it's pretty bizarre. I'm currently able to reproduce both icons being served (in Firefox on Windows) by doing a hard refresh (control+shift+R) twice in a row, then doing a normal refresh (control+R) twice in a row, repeating the sequence a few times. I'll consistently see different icons throughout this process.