Broken image icon in left sidebar

[akashnimare]

This happens when the app can't find the realm icon and it shows the broken image for few secs.
As a fallback, we're using the character icon from the realm name but it shows up after the broken image icon. We could do better here.

Possible solutions -
a) Change the way we show the realm icon in the left sidebar. We could first show the character icon on app load and then lazy load the relam icons (if they exist).

b) Replace the broken image icon with something nice - https://bitsofco.de/styling-broken-images/

To reproduce this delete the icon key from the domain.json.

[ThePiyushGupta]

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[ThePiyushGupta]

@akashnimare This issue seems to be specific to your os or machine as I am unable to reproduce it after multiple tries.
The charachter Icon from the realm name appers Instanty without any delay.However it shows the fallback charachter until the application is restarted.
Even with multiple servers it i am unable to reproduce the error .However the only problem is is that it shows the fallback charachter until the app is restarted

[Nikhil-Vats]

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