# Create topic in the future

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-in-the-future/11997>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [16 Enero, 2014 17:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-in-the-future/11997 "2014-01-16T17:14:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![sil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sil/32/2983_2.png) [@sil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sil)\
**Post date:** [16 Enero, 2014 17:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-topic-in-the-future/11997/1 "2014-01-16T17:14:36Z")

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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 fear walking through the code and changing every single request for a topic to include “`and publish_time <= now`”…)

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