Ask YC: PG, Can we please get an iPhone icon?

14 points·dcurtis··7 comments

News.YC's automatically-generated icon on the iPhone looks pretty terrible.

Can you please drop this: http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/3092/iconze9.png icon into the root directory and rename it "apple-touch-icon.png"?

iPhone users everywhere would thank you immensely.

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Make your own without the need to SSH or do anything special:

http://allinthehead.com/retro/319/how-to-set-an-apple-touch-...

While that's definitely a great way to get icons for sites don't specifically support the iTouch devices it's not exactly an elegant solution. At least for my site, I'd rather users not have to go to that much trouble to see a nice looking icon. Much easier to just put the right file in the right spot once and saves everyone involved a bit of time.

Going by the amount of people who used iPhones at Startup School, this'd be a great little enhancement for a lot of people, myself included.

Agreed that it would be great if everyone supported these icons. That said, boucher's solution is fine for the millions of sites that don't, so I don't know why he was downmodded.

I went ahead and cropped the YC logo from the homepage and put up here: http://tlrobinson.net/misc/yc.png

http://buxfer.com/yc/

Is it really necessary to create a thread for something trivial like this? Couldn't you just mail PG?

Tried. He either ignored it, or it got lost in his inbox.

I figured if the community agrees, he might be more inclined.

Feature requests should go here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

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