Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
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Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
^^^ No worries, Chris. Thanks for providing the information. As you say, it is a known bug. Does it bother me? Does it heck!
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Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
They are back!
Fantastic!
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Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
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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Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
Thank you for the info. Shame though
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Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
I'm on a mac and definitely have sound! I can't stop popping bulbs!
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Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
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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Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
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 so my work colleague starts panicking lol
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Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
^^^ You’re a bad, bad man!
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Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. (Max Ehrmann)
Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
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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Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
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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Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
^^ ^^
Come again!
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Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
Brilliant!
watching you fail in your quest for a “one watch” has been great entertainment
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Re: Christmas Lights and Snow Flurry on Forum
No sound? No worries, use this
Here's a Braille version for night time smashing in the dark
Here's a Braille version for night time smashing in the dark
NO PARKING
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