In 2013 this bug was reported: Not all sites are returning Hi Res icons
Since then a lot has improved. Most urls found in high_resolution_icon_url
on the site
type as returned by the /sites endpoint now return proper images.
Except one. Poor Meta of Area 51 is still unloved. Here is a piece of JavaScript to demonstrate the effect of the missing url:
function addRowToImageTable(propname, url) {
var tab = document.getElementById('imglist')
var tr = document.createElement('tr');
var tdProp = document.createElement('td');
var tdUrl = document.createElement('td');
var tdImg = document.createElement('td');
var img = document.createElement('img');
img.src = url;
tdImg.appendChild(img);
tdUrl.textContent = url;
tdProp.textContent = propname;
tr.appendChild(tdProp);
tr.appendChild(tdUrl);
tr.appendChild(tdImg);
tab.appendChild(tr);
}
function addStatusDiv() {
var status = document.createElement('div');
status.id = 'status';
document.body.appendChild(status);
}
function addTableForImagesToBody() {
var tab = document.createElement('table');
tab.id='imglist';
document.body.appendChild(tab);
document.styleSheets[0].insertRule('td{border:solid black 1px; margin:0px; padding:4px;}');
document.getElementsByTagName('div')[0].textContent = 'loading ...';
}
function showStatus(txt) {
var status = document.getElementById('status');
status.textContent = txt;
}
addStatusDiv();
addTableForImagesToBody();
fetch('https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/sites?pagesize=500')
.then((resp) => {
if (resp.ok) {
showStatus('get response ...');
return resp.json();
} else {
showStatus('error ...');
}
})
.then((json) => {
var i, site;
showStatus('processing ...');
for(i = 0; i< json.items.length; i++) {
site = json.items[i];
if (site.name.indexOf('Area')>-1) {
showStatus('process single item ...');
for(var prop in site) {
if (prop.endsWith('_url') && prop !== 'site_url') {
var url = site[prop];
addRowToImageTable(prop, url);
}
}
}
}
showStatus('ready ...');
});
td {
border:solid black 1px;
margin:0px;
padding:4px;
}
The image url found in high_resolution_icon_url
is https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/area51discuss/Img/[email protected]
but visiting that url is a 404.
Can you ask a designer to produce an image that can be served from that url?