https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/idhvme/updated_feature_scheduled_recurring_posts/
created by 0perspective on 20/08/2020 at 20:12 UTC
349 upvotes, 40 top-level comments (showing 25)
Hi mods!
A few weeks back we started rolling out scheduled and recurring posts[1] to all communities. Within that post, we mentioned some additional features were coming in a few weeks and that we’d follow-up to share updates. Well, it has been a few weeks, so today we're launching support for:
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/hvblq6/scheduled_recurring_posts_set_it_and_forget_it/
Read more about how to use scheduled and recurring posts[3].
2: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes
3: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037199532
Last week we also started developing scheduled and recurring posts support for Android and iOS as well. We hope to have this in your hands sometime in October.
Additionally, I wanted to acknowledge an infrastructure incident we had over the weekend that led to a few hundred scheduled posts not being submitted. We were able to address the issue and have added additional alerting to help us catch these issues faster. Apologies for the downtime, please let us know in the comments below if you’re still having any issues with scheduling posts.
I’ll be around in the comments for a bit so let us know what you think of the new support features or if you have any questions.
Comment by Watchful1 at 20/08/2020 at 20:15 UTC
37 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Last time I asked about the ability to post as automoderator being important and not having a replacement with the new scheduled posts. You said you were looking into it and something like that is on the long term road map.
Do you have any updates on that? Is it still planned to disable automod scheduled posts before that's released?
Comment by 0perspective at 20/08/2020 at 20:12 UTC
1 upvotes, 15 direct replies
If you were to write the product specifications for post as a subreddit (aka post as a mod team), what would your top features and requirements be?
Comment by FlapSnapple at 20/08/2020 at 20:28 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is awesome, these were the exact missing pieces we were waiting for before transitioning over! *(Specifically, dates, comment sorting, and sticky slot positioning.)*
Comment by ThePerito at 20/08/2020 at 21:06 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
How do I set the title to be
/r/MYSUB Help Thread - {{date %b %-d %Y}}
couldn't find the date option anywhere
Comment by Shigalyov at 20/08/2020 at 20:47 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Is there a way for admins to write comments on those scheduled posts? And is there a way to know the links the scheduled posts would be?
I host a number of book discussions. I use the event feature at the moment to write posts ahead of time. Knowing the links allows me to add the upcoming posts to chapter lists, and allowing comments allows me to write any content I wish separately from the post itself.
At this point I don't see the benefit of scheduling posts over using events. The only benefit seems to be automatic stickies and date strings.
Comment by kn33 at 21/08/2020 at 06:24 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Is this or will it be supported via the API for 3rd party apps to implement?
Comment by BurnZ_AU at 22/08/2020 at 14:37 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The timezones for Australia are extremely screwed up. They're at +34 instead of +10.
Comment by Soncikuro at 22/08/2020 at 20:37 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Question for titles:
Similar to dates, like *"Weekly Thread - {{date %B %d, %Y}} Edition"* is it possible to add and incremental number in the title instead of a date?
For example, a weekly schedule post that reads **"Recurring Post version 55"**, then next week it's **"Recurring Post version 56"**, and so on.
Comment by BurnZ_AU at 06/09/2020 at 02:15 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
3rd week of the Australian time zones not working correctly and not having scheduled posts be posted.
Comment by diceroll123 at 20/08/2020 at 20:19 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Shamelessly bumping request for rrule "codes", must keep the dream alive!
(recurring post every third Wednesday, for example, which is not always the same amount of time between each other unfortunately)
Other than that, awesome!
Comment by BurnZ_AU at 29/08/2020 at 14:56 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The Australian time zones are still screwed up[1].
1: https://i.imgur.com/UEkdpPC.png
Comment by [deleted] at 20/08/2020 at 20:23 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thank you so much for this update!
One question, are we going to see support on mobile devices for post collections? Would be nice to see them easily on phones too
Comment by itsalsokdog at 20/08/2020 at 21:16 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
On r/hermitcraft we have recently launched a sister subreddit, r/hermitcraftmemes. We post a weekly thread on each sub with mod announcements and other news, and link to the other subreddit's newsletter to cross-promote them.
If we go to use the scheduled posts feature for this, currently the mod whose account the posts are created under would have to go in and edit the post after publication to add the links.
I know ours is an uncommon use-case, but would it be possible to get the post ID or URL of the scheduled post to enable linking to it in advance in situations such as ours?
The only other thing that's preventing us from being able to move ALL of our automod rules over on the main subreddit is that one of them is set for "every fourth Saturday", which as I remember reading on the original thread, this was described as having 100% feature parity with automoderator, although that doesn't seem to be 100%, due to this bit at the very least. (The last I read was a comment from yourself https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/hx6kcg/its_friday_fellow_humans_grab_a_glass_of_oil_and/fz46drb/[1] - any update on this at all?)
Comment by ZioYuri78 at 20/08/2020 at 20:45 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Setting specific sticky slot positions for the scheduled post
So the previous stickied post in the selected slot will be automatically un-stickied?
Comment by Xenc at 21/08/2020 at 00:17 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Much welcome upgrades, especially compared to the previous scheduler. 👏
Comment by oakgrove at 22/08/2020 at 15:32 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I just rolled out some daily discussion threads in r/crossword and it was quite smooth. My only feedback is I almost created 7 different scheduled posts because I needed a different time for Friday & Saturday than the other days. The weekday selector UI doesn't show up in the "Custom..." repeat UI until you select "Weeks". Since it defaults to "Hours" and both "Hours" and "Days" have a "boring" interface I assumed they were all like that. I accidentally stumbled on the "Weeks" interface. I suggest defaulting that "Custom..." selector to land on "Weeks" since I feel like it's a bit more common of a use case than the others.
Comment by iPlain at 23/08/2020 at 12:55 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Any chance we can have distinguish without sticky for scheduled posts?
Comment by [deleted] at 25/08/2020 at 08:09 UTC*
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by [deleted] at 11/09/2020 at 00:38 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
option for automod to post scheduled posts instead of my username.
Comment by ladfrombrad at 20/08/2020 at 20:16 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Can we post via the subreddit like we can do in modmail?
Comment by Mister_That_Guy at 20/08/2020 at 20:22 UTC
2 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Is there any possibility for being able to schedule an Event for a separate time on a scheduled post? So have the event start after the post is scheduled to be made.
And on a similar page, is it possible to have an event trigger a sticky? so that a post will not occupy a sticky slot until the event triggers (currently if you schedule and event and set it to sticky, it occupies the slot before the post is made).
Lastly, is it possible to add the ability to manually end an event? Similar to how you can manually start an event. It would be helpful for live watch parties where there is no set end time. The "(NOW)" highlight showing up once the event has ended can be misleading and cause people to ignore it as a useful indicator.
This has been an AWESOME addition!
Comment by sonofherobrine at 20/08/2020 at 23:25 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Does this mean Collections support is also coming to mobile? Right now I have to switch to requesting the desktop site in the phone browser in order to see and manage collections.
Comment by [deleted] at 21/08/2020 at 08:56 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
How do you make a collection?
Comment by MadlockUK at 21/08/2020 at 10:01 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Will you be able to have it so we can schedule Event Posts? That will be incredibly useful for football matches like I mod on r/lcfc and r/OH_Leuven
Comment by boobyashank at 21/08/2020 at 11:32 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
u/0perspective[1] I noticed you've left out on mentioning scheduled image/video posts from your initial announcement[2] as well as this one. Is this still in the books like what was first promised in our private beta?
1: https://www.reddit.com/user/0perspective/
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/hvblq6/scheduled_recurring_posts_set_it_and_forget_it/
