Never, under any circumstance, press these buttons
They do nothing other than highlight you as a n00b!
I disagree. Itās fun to use them sometimes. I use āIām toastā quite a lot.
The relevant piece of information is that the thumb button says āRide On!ā but doesnāt give a ride on.
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you are the worst of people!
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Iām toast!
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No one knows who said it, the only person who does is you, so all you are doing is adding unnecessary noise to others and telling yourself youāre toast which i guess you already knew
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Thereās a lot of unnecessary noise, particularly the āride onā notification, so I donāt think a few āIām toastā or āRide onā really make much difference. IIRC thereās a separate volume control to turn off notifications while keeping the ambient sound, but I donāt know which channel those buttons populate.
Ideally, Zwift would enable you as an individual to disable the sounds that annoy you, rather than you trying to dictate what other people do. 
and if everyone thinks thatā¦
Everyone doesnāt think that, and even if they did that doesnāt mean it particularly encourages their use.
Iāve never found it to be an annoyance on rides Iāve done. Itās not like someoneās pressing it every few seconds the entire ride. The ride on notification is much more irritating.
TBH I like to hear the āride onā and Iām toast" sounds sometimes. It makes the experience feel more social.
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Tell you what I do find annoying though, and thatās the way Zwift overlays chat bubbles over each other, so if several people say things in quick succession, I canāt read them. Nor can I tell where they are in relation to me on a group ride, unless they happen to be right next to me.
So I think people should not use āsend message to groupā unless theyāre riding alongside me. 
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sounds like you need to add some sauce 
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ā¦or get a soundboard.
The chat thing is stupid design, but at least you can read the lost messages in Companion (probably still only starting from the first time you use it during the ride).
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Good point. I do have that, but I never remember to start it. =)
The real n00bs are the ones who havenāt turned the sounds off.
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Bah dum tish!
I always keep the sounds muted - there is nothing of value in the Zwift sounds IMO.
Since the thread was reopened, people could upvote the Companion App Redesign request: Companion App UI Button cleanup: REPLACE BUTTONS
ā¦because this is not good UI design:
TL;DR: The button on the bottom of the screen does absolutely nothing but make noise. Ignore it.
I usually have them on but I wear headphones so itāll just be annoying my neighbours!
I was on a group ride where a rider hit the wave button about every 10 seconds for the whole ride. May have just be sweating on his phone but it was kind of cute (and silent).
Game sounds off, forever.
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I donāt mind any of the sounds. They just add to the ambience.
Hereās a couple of questions though:
Thereās a badge for handing out 100 Ride Ons. Is that Audio Ride Ons or via the Ride on Bomb?
Is it 100 in one ride?
If itās via Bombs, is it 100 Bombs or 100 divided by the number of riders getting a blue thumb?
You can see why some folk might spam the Audio Ride Ons if they donāt know.
IIRC itās just giving out 100 in total. Itās for giving a Ride On via the āRide On bombā as you call it, or by giving out individual Ride Ons to people in-game or via the Companion.
The Ride On sound effect doesnāt count, but I agree itās ambiguous and that could well cause some people to spam it.
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