Invasion of the Tumblr Favicons

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#1

I’ve noticed that favicons for feeds that just have “/rss/” at the end of the address (e.g. http://1000lifehacks.com/rss or http://blog.newsblur.com/rss) are getting pre-empted with the blue Tumblr “t” favicon. Not a huge deal, but a bit annoying nonetheless.

This only seems to be an issue when the feed address is the same as the website address, except appended with “/rss/” i.e. http://verynicewebsite.net/feed/atom/ is fine, but if it were http://verynicewebsite.net/rss/ the favicon would be the blue Tumblr “t” favicon.

I’m on Chrome 42, but I’m seeing the same behavior in Safari and Firefox. Insta-fetching stories doesn’t clear up the icon, nor does parsing the feed or fetching from the website. 

Anybody else having this problem?

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#2

I’ve noticed that too, just this past week, and just on tumblr feeds. The feeds must have previously had the user’s display picture in a channel>image element, but I just looked at the rss feed for one of the affected sites, and that element is gone.

We should ask tumblr’s support what’s up.

#3

Ah, good call DMack, thanks. Didn’t put 2+2 together to realize that it was a Tumblr issue and not a NewsBlur issue.