@Taskmasters — this is what I plan to build tomorrow morning. Say now if you’d rather I didn’t.
What it does: a new Vote sounds section in your Preferences. For each kind of vote you receive (caption or comment upvote, supervote, downvote, photo upvote) you pick the sound you hear, or Silent, with a play button to try each one first. The choices are the sounds the site already has: today’s four, plus the 2023 upvote sound that was voted out. Your choice is saved to your account, so it follows you from device to device.
Where: your profile page → Preferences.
What won’t change: nobody’s sounds change unless they choose to. Anyone who never opens Preferences hears exactly what they hear today. The pop-up banner that says who voted still appears, even on Silent. Nothing about voting or scores changes.
Asked for by @Mr_Dome in New vote notification sounds [2023] (10 Aug 2023), added to the list by @Chris_Beach the same day, and asked again by @Stephen_Bean in the same thread (Nov 2024). It is on the To-Do List with 2 votes.
I’ll start at about 04:00 UK time tomorrow (Saturday) unless there’s a “no go” below, or a question here I haven’t answered. A “wait” vote holds it.
- Go
- No go
- Wait for further comments
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