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Simon Willison May 2, 2023

If you built a macOS desktop app that makes notification sounds even when the machine is in "Do Not Disturb" focus mode you should feel very bad about what you have done

(My laptop made two mysterious ping noises during the online talk I gave this morning)

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Glyph May 2, 2023

@simon As I get ready to start using discord more (it seems to be where the real-time action is these days) after hearing @mcc complaining about this problem extensively I am seriously considering buying https://www.rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/ so I can permanently mute it before I start having this experience every day. $40 seems like a lot for a mute button though. perhaps there should be a hashtag to raise awareness, #WhyIsDiscordBeeping

SoundSource - A Superior Sound Control

Access your Mac's audio devices, control per-app audio, and much more, all from the menu bar.

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mcc May 2, 2023

@glyph @simon If all you want is to have it not beep at all, that is the easy case. There is a "make no sounds" preference in Discord. In a browser you can also mute the tab.

My problem is I want it to beep *sometimes*, such as when my wife IMs me. Simon's problem is more that the Discord app's beeping (from what I have heard) inexplicably ignores the OS-level "Do not disturb" preference.

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Glyph May 2, 2023

@mcc @simon there are people all over the forums complaining that this preference does not persist across login sessions but perhaps that bug has been fixed?

@glyph @simon Yuck

@mcc @simon it's interesting that there can be so many _different_ problems with a program beeping

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Cassandra is only carbon now

@glyph @mcc @simon This. Discord's notifications are frustrating in a plethora of ways. I'd personally even be fine with it beeping if those beeps were at all actionable. There is no UI element that conclusively answers "why did Discord just make noise at me," but instead there's inbox, there's @-mentions, there's DMs, there's friend requests, and you often had to check each one individually and hope you can figure it out.