Use case: I use Discourse as a bit of an LMS, with lessons that “drip” twice a month. I build these lessons inside a category (“Lessons - Queue”) and then schedule them to auto-post to a student-visible category (“Lessons”). When I have this auto-publish (which is really just moving a published top…

You can set your ‘Lessons’ category to ‘default watching first post’ - this will send a notification to all your users when the scheduled post is moved into it: [image] After setting this option for your category, you can then also apply it to all your already existing users: [image]

Thanks Bart! Is there a way to schedule posts? For example, I want to schedule a 24-hour reminder post to say “be sure to join the live call at TIME at LINK” Any option inside Discourse, or do I have to use an email tool like Mailchimp?

Sure, have a look here [image] Scheduling topics for future publication Site Management bookmark This guide explains how to use topic timers to schedule a topic for future publication in Discourse. person_raising_hand Required user level: Trust level 4 users …

@waffleslop Were you able to get this to work? We are trying to do the same thing but think there might be a new bug preventing it from happening.

Notify users when a scheduled post is published

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Johani (Joe) January 11, 2020, 3:49am 4

Sure, have a look here

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Notify users when a scheduled post is published

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