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^^^ No worries, Chris. Thanks for providing the information. As you say, it is a known bug. Does it bother me? Does it heck! :lol:
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They are back!

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Excuse my ignorance (and laziness for not going through every post in this thread) but how does one get the sound when I smash all the lights! I have the sound turned up on my Mac Air laptop and also on my iPhone and there's nothing to hear. I used to love the sound of the glass smashing on my old PC! LOL!!
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I think someone said there's no sound on a MAC.
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JAFO wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 6:56 pm I think someone said there's no sound on a MAC.
Thank you for the info. Shame though :(
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I'm on a mac and definitely have sound! I can't stop popping bulbs! :D
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Seems random to me. I use a Mac and an iPhone. No sound on the phone, sometimes sound on the laptop, though not right now. Least you can smash the lights without annoying the neighbours...

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I have the forum open on my work desktop and the noise of the bulbs breaking is exactly the same sound as a BGU (break glass unit) notification :lol: so my work colleague starts panicking lol
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^^^ You’re a bad, bad man! :lol:
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JAFO wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 6:56 pm I think someone said there's no sound on a MAC.
I'm on a Mac (two in fact!) and had to turn the bulbs off as I kept reading the forum in the background whilst on some meetings (I work from home...) or between calls and kept hitting them accidentally and scaring the life out of myself! (Disclaimer: 90% of meetings I attend I'm facilitating and have my full attention... but there are always a handful that I'm on where I genuinely only have an interest in a small portion of them...)

I'd suggest changing browser and see if that works - could be that Safari doesn't play the sound but Chrome does for me.
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strapline wrote: Tue Dec 14, 2021 9:55 pm Seems random to me. I use a Mac and an iPhone. No sound on the phone, sometimes sound on the laptop, though not right now. Least you can smash the lights without annoying the neighbours...

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The sound is sort of random on Apple products. It doesn't work with iOS on iPad or iPhone (I think?) with either Safari or Chrome; I suspect it probably also won't work with other browsers.

With MacOS it's a more subtle problem. Using Chrome as an example when you open a new forum page, the Board Index for example, the sound works while until you have smashed ALL the bulbs at which point it obviously stops. If you then refresh that page you get the bulbs back and you can smash them again but this time with no sound. If you follow a link to a previously unvisited page then it performs exactly the same, first time through with sound but thereafter none. If you fully close Chrome so that all the Chrome background processes close and then restart then you seem to get sound back for the first pass through the lights again. It seems to behave somewhat similarly with Safari although I don't really use that and haven't looked in too much depth.

These lights, sounds and Santa hat are a phpBB extension for the base phpBB forum software. My suspicion is that it's a bit buggy and there's a problem reloading the JavaScript for the sound when a page is refreshed. It's open source software that is only supported on a best efforts basis so Caveat Emptor.

I've clearly had nothing more interesting to do this afternoon...

EDIT: It does seem like a page refresh issue. e.g. if you're on the board index and refresh the page then you loose the sound. However, if you click on the link to the board index then it reloads the page (as opposed to just refreshing it) and the sounds then work again.
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^^ ^^
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timor54 wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:33 pm
I've clearly had nothing more interesting to do this afternoon...

:lol: :lol: :lol: Brilliant!
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No sound? No worries, use this :thumbup:
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Here's a Braille version for night time smashing in the dark :thumbup:
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