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Recently, it was brought to our attention by a user that the feed icon of "Charlie's Diary" (feed here) is displayed empty: empty feed icon

We looked into the issue and it turned out that Mozilla-base software has a problem displaying the icon, as also can be seen when opening it directly in Firefox, resulting in: "The image “http://www.antipope.org/favicon.ico” cannot be displayed because it contains errors."

However, Mozilla's "Places technology", also used in Thunderbird feeds, can display the icon: icon shown in history

So we contacted Charlie politely asking him to address this issue. We even supplied a repaired version of his icon, which is only 16 bytes bigger. Our first inquiry was ignored, but a friendly reminder, "Please address this issue", five days later received this reply:

No. Now fuck off.

Well, good luck, Charlie!