Use github.com/<login>.png for GitHub logos - #78
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The avatars.githubusercontent.com/<login> shortcut saved a redirect per logo, but returns GitHub's grey ghost placeholder for some organisations. On the live grid, Playwright (Microsoft) and GitHub's own server showed the same blank octocat -- byte-identical images for two different owners. The documented github.com/<login>.png form redirects to the real avatar for every account checked, and 404s for a login that does not exist, so the image removes itself and the monogram shows as intended. - One redirect per logo is the price; a wrong logo is worse than none - Tests now assert the documented form Closes #77 --- Pages affected: - [browse MCP servers](https://ai.mcpharbor.dev/servers) -- the grid that showed the placeholder. - [Playwright MCP](https://ai.mcpharbor.dev/servers/io.github.microsoft/playwright-mcp) -- now carries Microsoft's logo. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #77.
Caught on the live server directory right after #72 deployed: Playwright (Microsoft) and GitHub's own MCP server both showed the same grey octocat — GitHub's default "no avatar" placeholder.
avatars.githubusercontent.com/<login>github.com/<login>.png2785b1beda…(ghost)2dfcee32d0…✓2785b1beda…(ghost)341647c485…✓b5383ac972…93a3bfb643…The shortcut was chosen to save one redirect per logo and checked against a single user account. It resolves some owners and returns the placeholder for others. The documented form redirects to the real image for every account checked and 404s for a nonexistent login, so the image removes itself and the monogram shows, as designed.
One redirect per logo is the cost. A wrong logo is worse than none.
Tests: 226 passing.
Pages affected:
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