

/favicon.ico
is the only “default” URL. /favicon.ico
is usually not an actual “icon” type anymore but PNG or JPG (but with the same URL). Other than that you need to load the HTML and check for Link
headers or <link rel=icon>
elements. While URLs like /favicon.png
may be popular they aren’t part of any actual protocol.
Yeah, I finally pulled the trigger and moved to my own domain from
matrix.org
. Man, it is just so much faster. Which is sad, because the performance is pretty bad. (Element Web seems to do some per-room request as part of the initial loading screen which is obviously not scalable) but getting off ofmatrix.org
is a huge performance improvement.That being said there is nothing really wrong with
matrix.org
. The problem is really public rooms. People will join and spam. It is true of any protocol (have you heard about email?) but Matrix definitely needs to (and they are slowly working on) make it more expensive for spammers.