We use the ability to schedule topics to lock at a given time pretty heavily, and have been kinda shocked at just how bad/inconsistent this feature is when compared to other forum software. In short, scheduling your topic to lock at 9:00 PM, for example, seems to lock at some random second within a …

If you can give me a more detailed step-by-step I can have a go at replicating it on my test site and seeing if I can spot anything? Is there anything special about the categories they’re in, for instance, or the length or timing of them? The closer I can match your set-up the better. :+1:

We’re not aware of anything in particular that drives it, although generally we schedule them to close at times when there are several people actively engaged (as they know the topic is going to be closed and try to sneak in a few final words right before the deadline). Not sure why that would have…

Okay I can confirm it’s not a site thing or an activity thing because we’ve tried an entirely different instance and the timer still ran out and the thread just didn’t lock and I had to do it manually :upside_down_face:

Why does scheduling a topic to lock not work consistently?

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orangeandblack5 July 17, 2022, 1:01am 6

…and again

Really not sure how this is missing this consistently, it feels like it should be pretty simple?

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Why does scheduling a topic to lock not work consistently?

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