The default sound setting in the chat web interface is pretty intrusive, with a bleep for every time anybody says anything. Suggest that the default sound be changed to "only when mentioned" to cut down on the bleeping.
asked Aug 31, 2010 at 7:36
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1Agreed; the sound is cool, but far too frequent.– DusdaCommented Aug 31, 2010 at 7:37
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1Agreed. If you're watching an important, quiet room you can always change to "Visible Room".– Ben GracewoodCommented Aug 31, 2010 at 7:38
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Related– badpCommented Aug 31, 2010 at 7:48
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Oh, is that what was really happening here?– PopsCommented Sep 21, 2010 at 16:09
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Agreed; we'll roll this change out over the next couple of days.
The reason that we don't just flip the switch is that we want it to be as unsurprising as possible to the user; so a user who wants "visible room" as their setting and relies on this default value will not be silently degraded to "when mentioned".
answered Sep 17, 2010 at 11:36
I agree. Defaulting to sound on every messages is distracting and detracts from the usefulness of an alerting sound marking something as an important event. I usually don't find every message in a chat room to be of the utmost importance qualifying it for a sound, especially not if I'm actively following the conversation.
