# Topic timer (without topic closure)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-without-topic-closure/112016>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** topic-timers\
**Created:** [March 19, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-without-topic-closure/112016 "2019-03-19T08:01:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biscuit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/biscuit/32/94482_2.png) [@Biscuit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Biscuit)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 9:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-timer-without-topic-closure/112016/3 "2019-03-19T09:46:50Z")

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Here’s an example:

> 1. I create a new topic, asking people to respond to a question by a certain date.
> 2. To help with time differences between countries, I add a topic timer so forum members can see the countdown.
> 3. When the topic timer has counted down, it closes the topic.
> 4. I don’t really want the topic to be closed, so I manually re-open the topic so conversation can continue.

My request is to allow a topic timer, which counts down, but without topic closure… or to let me know if this is already possible?

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