Please don’t do this.

You know it will be annoying.

Pretty sure Fifth Star Labs’ Sky Guide iOS icon does this. Not the whole icon, just the stars in it. Hiding the app in a folder helps but I’m looking for a better alternative just because of this.

	▲	layer8 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As a workaround, you can use a home screen shortcut to start the app. But I agree that app developers shouldn’t do this, or should at least provide an option to turn it off. (Some apps allow customizing the app icon color, so it seems that should be possible.)
	▲	pbhjpbhj 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Uninstall the app? Leave a review, tell the developer.

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masklinn 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On the other hand it’s a great signal that whoever uses that is an obnoxious twat and should be plonked.

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gerdesj 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The <blink> tag's spiritual successor.

	▲	hyperhello an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Oh, I bet the author is kicking himself for not including a blinking high-brightness class.
	▲	shaky-carrousel an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Or better, a blink tag that switches between HDR and non HDR text.
	▲	telecuda an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		If you want to opt-out of the second coming of <blink>: chrome://flags/#force-color-profile -> sRGB
	▲	madaxe_again an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ain’t no use unless you wrap that bad boy in a <marquee> too.

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madaxe_again an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We found that user engagement was substantially increased by making the home page just rapidly flicker between red and green. Some users stared at it for hours!

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telecuda 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, use it responsibly. Of course people won't, it's the internet, but a skilled designer may use it to highlight a word or an accent to draw your eye. It can be tricky in dense interfaces to draw focus to something (little tooltips or big buttons aren't the best answers). This is just another tool in the toolbox.

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dawnerd an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. It can also take a bit for the os to go back to the sdr state. I’ve had a few cases where safari gets stuck in hdr mode and won’t revert u til I force closed.

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theturtletalks an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I saw a restaurant on Uber Eats with a HDR enhanced image. The whole screen felt dim but I thought it was just me. How can it dim the whole screen?

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embedding-shape an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed.

What are you talking about? I have a HDR display, in Chrome on Arch the literal only change in the submission's demo is the brightness of that particular element, doesn't change anything else on the screen, sounds like you have a broken HDR implementation.

	▲	dawnerd an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If your setup runs everything in forced hdr you won’t notice. OSes like MacOS will map sdr making everything look dim that’s not hdr.
	▲	dgellow an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think they meant that by making an element brighter than the rest you basically change the contrast and the rest will feel dimmer

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tjoff an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

We haven't had dense interfaces for decades at this point.

Still, even with the best intent what you suggest is still annoying. Okay, you got my attention, i now know what you wanted me to know. Are you going to nag me for all eternity?

	▲	telecuda 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> We haven't had dense interfaces for decades at this point GovTech is still full of them. But B2B/B2C, you're right. The nagging will continue until morale improves.