Badges
System badges, seasonal badges, custom badges, badge order, colours, per-badge colour and the icon shimmer.
Badges appear next to your username on your profile. Some are granted by the system, some are claimed, and some you create yourself.
Where badges come from
| Type | How you get it |
|---|---|
| System badges | Granted for a status — staff, verified, partner, bug hunter, boost, suggester, creator |
| Seasonal badges | Claimed during a limited window each month |
| Custom badges | Created by you in Customize → Badges |
The Suggester badge is granted when a suggestion you posted in our Discord is accepted. The Creator badge is tied to posting about flexbio.link — see the badge list in the dashboard for the current requirement.
Claiming
Badges that need claiming show a Tap to claim your badge prompt. Seasonal badges are only claimable while they are available; once the window closes, that month's badge is gone.
Creating a custom badge
Use Create Custom Badge: give it a name and an icon, and it joins your badge row. Custom badges are cosmetic — they carry no status.
Order and visibility
You choose which badges are shown and in what order. Hiding a badge does not remove it from your account; it only stops rendering it on the profile.
Colour and shimmer
Customize in the Badges header opens Badge Customization, which holds every colour setting for the badge row.
| Tab | What it sets |
|---|---|
| Icon Color | The tint applied to the badge icons |
| Shimmer Color | The colour of the shine that travels across the row |
Both tabs offer the same two modes:
- Theme — follows your profile's accent colour, so the badges restyle themselves whenever you change your palette.
- Custom — one fixed colour you pick.
Icon Shimmer
On the Shimmer Color tab, Icon Shimmer adds a highlight that runs along the badge row, brightening each badge in turn. It is at its most visible when the shimmer colour differs from the badge colour — a white shimmer on white badges has almost nothing to work with, because white cannot get any brighter.
Colouring one badge
Colours are no longer all-or-nothing. Open the ⋯ menu on any badge row and use the brush to give that badge a colour of its own.
A colour set here always wins over the global tint, and unlike the global tint it also applies to image badges you uploaded yourself — picking a colour for one specific badge is taken as an instruction to recolour it. The reset button beside the eyedropper clears it and hands the badge back to the global setting.
Badge glow is a separate switch
Badge Glow lives under Effects → Glow Effects and works on its own. Turning Icon Color and Icon Shimmer off does not turn the glow off — if your badges still look lit up, that is the switch you are looking for. The glow takes each badge's own colour, so it follows any tint you set without needing one.
A badge you earned is not showing
Check that it is not hidden in the badge list, that the Discord account it was granted on is the one connected here, and reload your profile in a private window. Bot-granted badges can take a short while to appear.
View badges
The dashboard also has view-based badges that unlock as your profile grows. They follow your Analytics numbers automatically — there is nothing to claim.