Is there a way to create a "scheduled" topic post?

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I was just wondering if there was a way to create a scheduled topic post, so that I can draft up a post now, and then schedule it to go “live” at a certain date/time?

Just one of those random thoughts I had floating around in the grey matter here.

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There’s probably a plugin available for Discourse, to enable this.

But, without an API key, and your own crontab, right now I don’t think it’s possible.

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Although, there is this option as well, depending on how badly you want it. It actually works:

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Discourse offers this up natively but you have to be an admin to do it. IIRC from the last time I did it, it’s also wonky in that you create and post the message to an admin specific channel such as Staff, then you schedule the message to moved to the proper channel/location. So even if layperson had the rights, the workflow is off kilter enough to not be useful for most.

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