Why are Notifications THE SAME SOUND for EVERYTHING!?

YEARS spent using dozens of IMs and I've never had problems communicating with my friends in any of them.

I don't know who sent me what and when, or whats new or whats recent, and then when I find the server, after I look in every folder, I then have to sort through which channel it was on and its just so, damn, stupid. There's no notification log, no recent or "new" messages section. No FEED... no flashing icons, no flashing names.

I can't separate chats into windows, and can't create sounds because you're all so focused on brand recognition.

I thought back in 2016 that surely by now you'd have added this feature, but now its clear to me you haven't considered whether or not we can sort through hundreds of channels and identify our friends who want to reach us.

At some point you've forgotten just how big and convoluted communicating in Discord actually IS, and that this won't cut it. You have FULL FEATURED CHANNELS with multiuser camera sessions, voice-rooms, and entire 1000+ member servers with dozens of channels in each...

ALL ON THE SAME NOTIFICATION!?!?!?

I'm not being dramatic. It's really just frustrated me for so long, and I see countless threads just get ignored and it just rips me up to see it. Is it really worth it?

Is Discord just not ubiquitous enough?

Make it a Nitro feature if you want, just for a moment think about what it's like to actually USE your platform on multiple devices with one sound identifying them all.

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I apologize for the abrasiveness in my tone, but this is just a sampling of voices that go unheard, which I feel only somewhat represents the collective frustration I promise you tens of thousands of people share every day.

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bloody_albatross
Yes, I too would like to change the notification sound on a per server basis.

Main reason: We also use Discord for work and now when hearing the notification sound I don't feel "ooh, a Discord notification" any more, but instead I feel "what the *#$%& do they want now?" So basically I want my positive associations to the Discord notification sound back. I use the web client.

Tepi
As a user, it would be great to be able to upload (or choose from a list) different notification noises for different servers, or different users.

If that's too complex, then perhaps the owner of a server could select from a list of choices for notification sounds pertaining to their server.

Perhaps, as an additional idea, we could change the volume on notification sounds?

Either across the board, or on a per-server/user basis. So, I'd hear notifications from *this* server significantly louder than those from *that* server,

and DMs from my significant other loudest of all. Etc.

Being able to customize notification sounds on a Server or even User basis would be fantastic. Or "Server notification" versus "DM notification" would even make life much better.

There's only one server I care about sometimes hearing notifications for, but sometimes, I really only care about hearing if someone DMs me.

Or tags me, I suppose - we don't use that option much in our group.

Fiora
I think about how useful this feature would be on a near daily basis!

-Custom sound upload (maybe .wavs and .mp3s?)

-Sound association by Server/User (if DM)/Server Folder (I know it's a reach but it would give server folders a whole new dimension of utility!)

Ideally you could schedule the sounds to be different/switch to things like possibly vibrate

or a different sound based on time and day of the week.

F*** it. No more ramen
I have one server that I ALWAYS want to check if it pings, but others are just nice to have.

So either I only allow notifications from one, or just miss important notifications because I can't tell them apart

Art3mis
+1, should be able to differentiate between messages and pings,

because pings could be important and it isn't fair or appropriate to have the same sound for both.

ActionScripter

I would love this. Features that would improve Discord dramatically, in descending order of importance to me personally:

- Different sound for pings (or DMs, anything that would create a number notification)

- Ability to set custom ping sound (or perhaps variations in volume or pitch) for each server

- Ability to distinguish between pings and DMs via sounds, and also between direct pings and group pings like @here or @role

This would solve the problem that comes up after using Discord for a little bit,

which is becoming so desensitized to the notification sound that you let DMs and pings go unanswered due to not checking on them.

(And if someone wonders "Why don't you just look for the number in the taskbar icon to see if it's important?"

- this doesn't work when you're fullscreened in a game or another app and don't have the overlay running!)

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