# Ability to add multiple topic timers

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-add-multiple-topic-timers/66744
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** topic-timers
**Created:** [July 24, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-add-multiple-topic-timers/66744 "2017-07-24T23:53:06Z")
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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-add-multiple-topic-timers/66744/2 "2017-07-25T00:00:30Z")

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Is this what you’re after?

> [@Create topic in the future](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-in-the-future/11997):
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> I’d like to be able to, via the API, create a Discourse topic but not have it show up until a defined time in the future. This is really handy for things like announcement posts, so I can create a new topic to announce a thing at some point before the release of the thing, and have the forum discussion become available automatically at release time without me having to do anything. Has this sort of feature been discussed? (I did take a glance at the code, but I’m not really a Ruby guy, and I fea…

Auto-closing is already core.

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