Turn on do-not-disturb during a certain period of time.

ReactJS

I'd like to see a feature where we as users can enable do-not-disturb during work/school hours (or busy hours of our choice) and automatically set our status back to the online status outside of the specified hours. I've been seeing a lot of people in servers that I am in requesting this feature as well. 

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  • 𝓮𝓰𝓰 𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵

    This would be a relatively obsolete feature, given you can already mute servers for a given amount of time, and why not turn do not disturb on before you go, and turn it off when you are back online. It is really simple, frankly, and I don't understand why anyone else would request an obsolete feature such as this.

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  • ReactJS
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    I disagree with your statement. What's the convenience behind muting every server you are in for a specified time? Yeah sure you can just turn on DND before you leave and turn it back on, but for the same reason Discord added the Custom Status > Clear After > Do Not Clear is for the convenience behind it. No one wants to reset there status every day. Not everyone wants to change their DND especially if they have a specific schedule every day (such as school or work). We live in an automated world and I can almost assure you that it's going to be a successful feature.

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  • fuzzyweapon

    Also, while being mostly marketed toward a gaming crowd, I guarantee Discord uses the client for their work.  Having worked in the gaming industry for a long time, I can say we always had our Discord client up (at the time it's been around) and anything that was deemed the official communication tool for work (which only had advantages of superb integration, though with webhooks etc, Discord is very easy to setup as those become more popular).

    All this to bury the lead.  People in these kinds of jobs and that lead high stress jobs where they are constantly inundated with time management and organization challenges, automating every point of failure (or trying to) is a big safety net.  It may seem like a small thing, but for people who see the feature already implemented for something that's nonconventional (almost always an expiry timer is implemented for DND at this point) and not for something standard that creates another point of failure, it doesn't land well.

    DND doesn't just mute all your servers in one go (which is I think the most compelling reason to have an expiry on it), it also communicates to people that you're there, but can't pay attention to their pings.  It might take you a lot longer than 15 minutes to look at it.  It deters colleagues from waiting forever for an answer and feeling like they can never reach you (being left hanging is way worse than being told ahead of time you aren't available).

     

    On the gamer front, all of these things can still happen, and while I love the expiry timer on status and was delighted to see it as a person who is medically forgetful.  It's just.  I agree with ReactJS

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  • fuzzyweapon

    In short, it allows people to focus on what matters while still being polite and efficient.

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