discord beeps without showing where the new activity is
Discord is starting to drive me crazy with all it's unclear beeps.
First off, I have desktop notifications turned off, because there is no way to force them to the second monitor, and I don't want them popping up on top of my primary monitor gaming sessions.
With notifications turned off, it's virtually impossible to tell where the beeps are coming from. My discord had been beeping all this morning without adding any red-numbers to any servers, and I finally got fed up with it and muted all servers.. which is not what I want to do, but I don't have any choice.
So now I have discord with desktop notifications off, and all servers muted.... because the notification system in discord is so broken.
Please
1) Make some notification-history UI page inside the discord app, which will show a history of everything that caused a beep or ding on any server for any reason.. so when it beeps or dings I can go and look in one place and see what the hell caused it, even if it's been a while.
2) Allow me to set desktop notifications to show in ANY corner of ANY monitor, and dismiss after a configurable delay, including NEVER.
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Mcgillicutty must not join many channels/sites.
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Email notifications are why I'm here. Following this thread was a mistake. I did it to show support but I get an email every time or every day someone makes a comment. It's pelting my inbox. It's been a year and the issue has not gone away. I've put a plug in it by muting every Discord I'm subscribed to. This way I only get pings when I am directly messaged.
One workaround that doesn't work for me is to unmute a server and then mute every chat section in that server that I don't want to get messages for. The problem I have with that is that now there is no difference between a chat section with recent new posts and one that never gets new posts.
This is a great one sentence description of the issue. Thanks to the poster above who highlighted it.
The core of the problem isn't that notifications are enabled, it is that there is a notification without an indication of the notification origin.
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Email notifications are also the reason why I (involuntarily) keep an eye on this thread.
Suffice to say, this is one of the bad impressions Discord has left me with. This, among other things, is the reason I simply haven't gotten into Discord :/
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Free product is a free product, which I appreciate it.
Having Global Notifications Muted, then receiving a sound / flashing on the application, only for no indication of where that sound / flashing is sourced from, is rather silly.
It's been 2 years and this is still an issue, so rather disappointing considering how simple it should be to fix (Source; IT for 15 years, developer, sysadmin, network engineer.)1 -
It's ridiculous that this has been a complaint for over 2 years and nothing continues to be done about it. Such a simple feature to add.
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It's like a friggin' smoke detector with a low battery. Which one is it?
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It is apparent that Discord will not fix this issue.. I guess just mute the whole thing and be done with it.
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There is an inbox button at the top right of Discord. It contains a running list of notifications and mentions. I've used this to isolate the cause of notifications, and muted the channels and servers directly from the inbox menu.
This button needs a badge with a counter so that it is more visible.
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Hahaha. I just came here to necro this too. I get an update do discord every other day but this doesn't get fixed. Nice.
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Just came to pile on as just now I started to get them and a whole friggin LOT of them...
I kinda got the feeling that, out of nowhere, discord decided to beep for (almost?) every message in (almost?) every channel...!? I had to mute the browser tab...
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I figured out one reason for what causes this. If you at one point right click on a chat channel and set the Notification settings to 'All Messages', you will get the Discord message beeps but you won't see a red icon for that chat channel. However as soon as you hear the beep you can look at these channels and see new messages for them. This is extremely confusing as there should be a Red Icon next to the channel indicating that a new message was received since it triggered a sound notification.
This is a really bad UX design pattern, imagine if you kept hearing your phone's SMS sound go off but no notification showed up, I would throw that phone out the window.
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@Vallamost I think you would have to do a lot more testing to be able to declare a cause because your experience isn't necessarily the experience of others. For example, what about those of us that get that notification when having never set notifications to 'all'? And who does that? Anyone actually have it set to all? Ever? I don't, never have. The notifications I get don't match with anything and I only belong to a few communities so it was easy to check.
I'm okay with bugs and errors. That happens all the time in development, but what doesn't happen all the time is a developer ignoring those bugs and all of the complaints about it... for years. Discord developers simply don't care and that is troubling to see.1 -
@Icon I think you need to work on your reading comprehension and understanding of app development. I said I found one reason, why not try and help find other reasons instead of complaining without adding anything of value? If you look at the list of issues here they have much higher priority issues to fix based on votes.
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@Icon, I agree with you that no one would probably set a channel's notifications to all, I certainly do not remember doing so, must have been by accident or some bug, but I had 2 channels set to all notifications (I didn't even know I could right-click a channel for notification settings so I'm quite sure I was never the one to set that).
@Vallamost - it does seem like this was the cause for my case, so thanks for the post 😊
I also noticed the "suppress @all and whatever" option which I enabled in all channels - I had one particular channel where some admins love using the @all... so annoying I was about to leave it because of it, no need now with the suppression 🤗
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@Vallamost I suggested that more testing would be needed to verify your claim and then gave an example that could invalidate it. I guess this upset you greatly. Sure, there may be more than one cause, or a combination of causes, and then there is the web version, mobile version, and windows app to consider too. There is also bug compounding to consider. But I didn't think that I needed to go into detail in my post to simply suggest more than a single example would be needed to help validate your claim. If you read this then I'm sure you found another reason to be offended.
@lflfm Yes and some server admins will adjust their settings to send all notifications to their members by default. Not sure why though...
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Perhaps they should make a setting in the notifications section of discord user settings menu that will change the default for those settings. That way you could set it to only show @ mentions there and whenever you add a new server discord would set that for you automatically on the newly added servers instead of defaulting to always showing all notifications and forcing you to do it manually every time. This would allow users to set their preference so it is on by default and change the servers later as needed making less work/irritation for the users in general. Plus, if you decided you wanted 1 server to not be like that you could change it manually afterward using the options in that specific server like we are forced to do every time right now.
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@Vallamost. This was indeed my issue and has so far resolved the problem.
@Icon. I apologize, but you refuted their claim using the same logic you were arguing with. You assumed since it wasn’t the case for you, it couldn’t be the case for us. I apologize, but I have to reinforce their statements in response. If I had listened to you I wouldn’t have had my solution and moved on looking for something else. Just consider that please.
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@SneakyBeakyLyke the only thing you should be apologizing for is reading my post then deciding that I said something different than what I did. I even posted a followup, which was also ignored by you. I never said this couldn't be the case for you or others, I said (and here I am saying this YET again) that more than one case would need to be demonstrated. That is not only my acknowledgment of his example, but an open mind in regards to it being the case for others too. I guess what you really wanted was for my to fall on my knees and worship him for the post and declare that there is no way this could ever be proven not to be the only cause.
And if you had listened to me you would not have a solution because I provided none to begin with and am here to keep the wheel greased so that maybe some day, someone at Discord will care more about their current users instead of the potential for more. But even so, I'm so over explaining this ad-nauseum.0 -
leeterry Come on, Lee. That would be far too logically sensible.
They either need to integrate these beeps as notifications in Discord's "Notifications" panel -- and not forcing one to rely on Windows 10's useless Actions/Notifications/Whatever-the-hell center* --
...or, they should at least provide a workaround inside Discord's settings of a master server-default notification setting (e.g. "No beeps for mentions by default for all servers").
How hard would it be to put a table in Settings showing our list of Discord servers, with the crossgrid showing what particular notification settings/sounds options are set, and allowing us to easily change ones we want to beep or silence in bulk?
*...which is probably why this will never happen, Microsoft perhaps paying Discord specifically to not implement a feature like this given it forces us peasants to rely on Microsoft's useless OS feature bloat that works half the time
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I just got a new computer and it started doing this. My previous laptop did not do it. Does anyone have any clue how to stop it? It is the sound I used to hear only when joined in a voice channel and someone entered or left the channel. Now I hear it all the time for any activity and I have no idea where it is coming from.
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just bumping this 3 year old thread because discord notification beeps make me want to kms because i have no idea where they are from but they happen so damn often.
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Welcome to the community! We're growing old together! You can start right click-muting channels.
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Muting channels completely is not a solution, there are two problems here.
1. Discord doesn't have any way to let us know where beeps came from (they should make a general bell icon that essentially lists all beeps, regardless of channel or something)
2. Discord lets channel admins manage default notification settings - terrible feature and admins abuse+misuse that a lot. So you can can (and should) set the CORRECT notification defaults for every channel you have and join:
First right-click each channel and open notification settings, then:
a. Server notification settings: "Only @mentions"
b. Enable "Suppress @everyone and @share"
c. Enable "Suppress all role @mentions"
Only in one or two very important channels where you have an important enough role, you might want to disable the "Suppress all role @mentions" but that would be a very rare thing and has high potential for crazy beeps counts.
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Welcome to this thread. It's been pointed out multiple times that muting a channel does not solve this problem, nor is it a work-around. The problem is that Discord does not care.
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Well, OK. I mute the server.
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I'll just take my ticket and sit in the back of the line, because this stupid shit is happening to me now too. I can't believe they've let this continue for 3 god damn years.
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Hello and welcome. Here's the wifi password. There's cheesecake and iced tea over there.
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😬 Sorry, we're out of cheesecake
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Also having an issue with this, its so annoying
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I need to look at the pings I'm getting the moment they're send out. Having my discord ping all the time is really annoying.
Discord should at least tell me where the ping is coming from? How is it possible I hear ping notifications while there is nowhere any pings to be seen?
It's like hearing an ambulance in traffic without seeing any actual ambulance anywhere.
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