Remotes learn to ring, and to hush
New messages in Remotes can now pop a browser banner and play a chime, each with its own switch. A quick mute quiets any remote for an hour, a week, or good.
Top storyTook the lead from Your quote lands without a reload #1017. Remotes now can show a browser banner and play a chime for new messages, and each remote can be muted for an hour, a week, or forever. Held off 17 challengers since.
You are deep in another tab when a small banner slides in from the corner, headed /dev/null · Remotes, and a soft chime plays. Click the banner and you are in the conversation, cursor ready. Nothing about the message itself escapes to the operating system.
Credit goes to paulinevos, who gave Remotes a voice and a volume knob. Banners and sound are separate switches under Remotes in Settings → Profile, both on by default, and the site asks for notification permission only when you press Allow notifications. Your inbox is checked every 15 seconds, or every 6 while a conversation is open, and the first check only records where you are, so opening the site never replays the backlog. A 10-second cooldown shared across remotes and tabs keeps a burst to one alert, and banners carry no message text.
Open a remote's … menu, choose Mute, then For one hour, Until tomorrow, For one week, or Forever. Until tomorrow ends at midnight in your account's timezone, or UTC if you have not set one. The mute follows your account onto other devices and appears in your data export, but it never hides messages or touches unread counts. Unmute sits in the same menu.
One catch. None of this is push. Close the site and the checking stops, so there is no banner and no chime until you come back. Browsers can also freeze a background tab and leave you in silence.