scheduled msgs

[ara4n]

would be nice to he able to queue up msgs to deliberately send in future at a given time (eg to avoid binging people at 3am)

[lampholder]

Hmm, I though I already put some comments on this.

This would be easy to impl client side, except you'd need to guarantee that your client were alive and connected at that time to do the needful.

Would we consider making changes to the spec to support this server side?

[aaronraimist]

keywords: scheduled messages, scheduled send, send later

[iav]

Sure it's should be server-side. My use-case: I am sitting in the night and send funny cats to my friends. Then I go to sleep, power off my desktop. My friends gets funny cats all the day one per hour.

[hex-m]

For advanced use-cases like funny cats it would be fine for me to use a script/bot. ;)

This would be easy to impl client side, except you'd need to guarantee that your client were alive and connected at that time to do the needful.

For the original use-case (avoid binging people at 3am) it would be enough to implement it client side and send the messages the next time the client (or one of my clients?) is online after the specified point in time.

[mattdm]

It'd be awesome to have this linked to time-based notifications, or even some sort of "published hours" feature, so that if I'm sending a message to someone who is asleep or on holiday, it tells me "this person is not available right now — schedule for later?"

Or, something on my side, where I could turn on a "don't bother people on the weekends" mode where the default would be to schedule for Monday.

Obviously if the notification-mute feature were in place, it wouldn't 🔔 people, but still I think it's more polite to just not pile on outside of work hours — this would let me do that, but also let me write and "send" things when I think of them rather than becoming todo items.

[mattdm]

And speaking of todo items, I often use (abuse?) this feature in Slack to create reminders for myself -- things I want to do or look at later, but aren't big enough that I want to actually put on my formal todo list or set calendar reminders. I just schedule 'em to be sent to myself later in the week.

[gsmachado]

just wanted to mention that I'm super interested in this feature! please! 😄 🙏

[kraftbj]

A second use case — I'm at a team meetup (distributed company). Our policy for meetups is a COVID rapid test on arrival and a second two days later. I'd like to schedule a "Please run your second test today!" message right now to go out two days later.

[xuwhite]

This feature would be really nice. For me it's one of the most useful features for messaging. I use it in Telegram to remind friends and myself of stuff we have to do

[hex-m]

Signal 6.11 beta supports that feature. We may learn from their UX and the feedback in that discussion and the feature request.

[RHDZMOTA]

Any updates on this? 🥺

[CaptainStack]

+1 - I want this feature.

[TheRootOf3]

Are there any updates on this issue? 👀

[vansoest]

+1 — really need this feature is very useful to schedule work messages to Monday or control a bot at a specific time.

[kcyeu]

+1 for this feature.

[hex-m]

Instead of posting +1 please press the :+1: button on the original post. This way the developers get an easy way to view the open issues ranked by "votes".

(and you don't spam the followers of the issue with notifications)