A pulsing status dot
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Rule · bucket: hybrid · severity: warning · detector: pulsing-dot · since: v0.17.0
Section: Things to avoid
Group: Motion

Forbidden:
  A green dot that pulses or pings beside "All systems operational", "Live", "Online"

Instead:
  A still dot and the word. Motion is for a state that is changing now: a sync in progress, a recording under way.

A pulse says "look here, something is happening". On a status that has not changed in a week it is a false alarm on a loop, and it trains people to ignore the one indicator whose job is to be noticed when it matters (`G-43` applies too: under reduced motion it must still read).