I think you can tell how good a company is by how easy they make it for you to take your business elsewhere. The fact that NFSN has made it even easier for people to leave just shows what a brilliant service you provide. I bet those transfer codes won’t get used much, even though they’re easier to obtain 🙂

Quick tip for anyone who wants to quickly create a zero-length favicon: log in with ssh and type touch favicon.ico

Organization-owned accounts

Awesome.

I believe sometimes they do, because under some circumstances they will request the favicon before visiting the site. -jdw

One minor nit-pick on the new member login screen the words “Login Name” appear on two separate lines in Firefox (on two different machines). You’ve got plenty of space, so can we have a of bit extra width, say 25% or 30% instead of 20% on table.form th {} – or is this rule used elsewhere?

Well, at a minimum we threw nobr tags on it. -jdw

A suggestion: what do you think about making NFSN’s own favicon, or a variation of it (maybe without the text), a default file on new sites? Or even an empty, 0-bytes one? This would be an easy way to bring the performance benefits to most (lazy) users as well as to NFSN itself.

We have member sites get hammered every day, and the favicon.ico issue has risen to the point where we noticed it once, so it’s not a problem we feel an urgent need to rush out and address. If “For your information…” doesn’t nip it in the bud, we’ll evaluate other options. But we’d never impose a NearlyFreeSpeech-branded favicon on member sites, as a default or otherwise. -jdw

These are all useful features. I’m not sure yet if there’s any advantage to having the canonical names be other than of the form [example.nfshost.com], which I’ve left alone in the interest of simplicity, but if needed, the UI changes for that will be handy.