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Going gray for smartphone addiction

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Re: Going gray for smartphone addiction

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atareh wrote: post #57
phillc73 wrote: post #14

I don't know about the app, but following the instructions on that website I have just set my phone to monochrome mode. I'm not sure it will assist me to use my phone less, because initially I really like it! The main use for my phone is to read stuff; news, email and instant messaging. I don't use social networking on my phone (apart from Hacker News if that qualifies). I do use a 2FA app, but colour hardly matters…

the app may work for you still, if you find grayscale is taking away your ability to take the photos you want - the whitelisting feature would turn it off when you're in your camera (without menu hopping)

I'd be happy to give the Android app a chance, as long as it's available to install from somewhere other than Google Play Store, which I don't use.

Re: Going gray for smartphone addiction

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Post by atareh »

phillc73 wrote: post #61
atareh wrote: post #57

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the app may work for you still, if you find grayscale is taking away your ability to take the photos you want - the whitelisting feature would turn it off when you're in your camera (without menu hopping)

I'd be happy to give the Android app a chance, as long as it's available to install from somewhere other than Google Play Store, which I don't use.

i'm sure that can be arranged :)

Re: Going gray for smartphone addiction

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Post by xaedes »

yumaikas wrote: post #25
atareh wrote: post #16

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yeah! we include the instructions on the website to go gray natively :). The app will have the features listed on the page.

For windows users, there's stuff like http://arcanesanctum.net/negativescreen/ , that might be interesting to investigate and/or integrate into this.

I missed the grayscale option at first sight and discarded that solution. Thought it could only invert colors.

To make it clear: NegativeScreen has a grayscale option with default hotkey F11.

Re: Going gray for smartphone addiction

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Post by atareh »

radicaledward wrote: post #59
atareh wrote: post #56

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Website creator here, thanks for the comment! I do recognize the hate for scroll jacking, however it was the only way for me to set up the website with that effect, do you know of another way? I'd love to make a change (i'll be honest, i didnt know scrolljacking was something that was so despised) Looking forward to your comment!

Hey thanks for your response! Please note that this response is only in the context of your home page desktop design on Firefox. I'd need to spend some additional time doing analysis on mobile and other browsers. In my opinion, the main thing you want to do is not change responses to the user's systems native controls. This is an essential part the principal of least surprise - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle…

Wow thank you so much for the detailed response!

I've taken this comment back to my team and we're discussing our next moves now - I think the easiest and most immediate thing we can do is removing the scroll effect on the third screen to the homepage - hopefully that reduces some frustration for you (and i'm sure many others have felt).

Thank you for the kind words! Definitely trying to make an impact in the space :)

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