Welcome Wednesday: What's your favorite ringtone?

[Dave LIAO]

👋 Hey Atlassian Community denizens!

It's time for another Welcome Wednesday, a chance for you to participate on the forums with questions and prompts that aren't necessarily about Atlassian tools. 🙃

For this week's question: What's your favorite ringtone?

• Was there a song that captures your personality so perfectly that you had to have it as your ringtone?
• Maybe there's a sound effect from a film or videogame that you were obsessed with?
• Whatever you're thinking - is it STILL your ringtone?

📢 Looking forward to your comments! Maybe I'll even change my ringtone... 👀

PSA: If you've got Marimba set as your ringtone and you've never chosen it, choose something different and exciting please! 🤪🤪🤪

[Anne Saunders]

I'm a horribly boring person who keeps my phone on silent ALL THE TIME, so I never hear my ring tone (also, shame on anyone who calls without explicit permission!)

That said, I keep it set to 'old phone' for nostalgia reasons :)

[Dave LIAO]

🤣 Yeah, my phone is mostly on vibrate.

When it's on, I currently have it play the jingle from when you walk into a specific Taiwanese convenience store. It amuses me personally, and no one really gets it unless they've lived in Taiwan.

[Anwesha Pan]

That’s a good one 😀 I am still stuck with GOT (game of thrones) violin 🎻 ringtone! It’s been ages but still haven’t changed yet 🤣

[Dave LIAO]

@Anwesha Pan - oh neat, the GOT theme song?

[Anwesha Pan]

Yes you got it right 😀🙌🏻 @Dave LIAO 

[Chris Rainey]

My favorite video game franchise of all time is the Legend of Zelda. The Master Sword is even my profile avatar in my organization's Atlassian instance.

My favorite (and current) text tone is the chime when you find a secret.

I keep my phone on silent most of the time so I don't get too many opportunities to hear it but when I do, it brings me great joy and memories from a lifetime of playing LoZ games.

[Dave LIAO]

@Chris Rainey - YES! I used to have the rupee chime as a "you've got a new SMS" sound! Way better than the Super Mario Bros. gold coin sound.

[Amanda Barber]

Like @Anne Saunders, my phone is always on vibrate only...TBH, I probably wouldn't know my phone rang without my smartwatch!

[Dave LIAO]

@Amanda Barber - you just reminded me to DISABLE my smartwatch notification for when people call! One vibration is enough for me. 🤣🤣🤣

[Iryna _Zhade Labs_]

My favorite ringtone is probably silent mode 😄
After too many notifications during the day, silence feels premium.

[Carsten Severin _KUMAVISION AG_]

My favorite ringtone for business is the theme of "Mission Impossible" - but I don't hear it that often because mostly it is on focus mode 🙈

[Dave LIAO]

@Iryna _Zhade Labs_ - "silence feels premium"

Agreed. 🙃

@Carsten Severin _KUMAVISION AG_ - love that as a ringtone choice, you really want to answer before it's too late 🥲

[Stephen_Lugton]

Back in the days when I had a Nokia my ringtone was the Airwolf theme, in fact I now have it as my ringtone again!

At one point I had my ex mother in law's ringtone as the Imperial March ...

[Barbara Szczesniak]

Well, @Dave LIAO, although my ringtone was not set to Marimba, I was not excited about the one I have been using. Your question prompted me to change it. I have chosen Strum. 

I don't usually use silent, but I set my ringer volume very low. Most times I also only know it's ringing based on my smartwatch.

[Dave LIAO]

Anyone who has their phone set to Marimba will never see this Community post. 🥲

For the rest of you watching this thread, have you seen the Taskmaster challenge where folks are supposed to make a music video from ringtones? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuQko04kXk

[Brita Moorus]

My phone is basically on silent mode 24/7 🙈 At this point, vibrations and smartwatch notifications are doing all the heavy lifting 📱⌚

Also fully agree with the anti-Marimba movement. Some sounds instantly transport you straight back to 2009 😭

[John Funk]

Wait, do people still take calls on their phone??? 

[Stephen_Lugton]

Yes, how else can our parents / grandparents get in touch with us?

Well to be fair, an ex writes nearly identical letters to everyone in her friend circle and sends them by post, what's worse is she expects everyone to reply in the same way otherwise she has a public rant about you to everyone else in her next letter.