Scheduled posts

[TonyGiorgio]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I often have my best ideas around midnight, however posting during off-hours will lead to very little engagement. I often sleep in or have other normal life priorities during the more engaging morning hours.

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like to draft a post that is scheduled to go out at a specific time in the future. I really like shipyard.pub for scheduling posts on nostr.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I could write a bot that does this but would rather not. I could wake up earlier and drink more coffee while using stacker.news but would rather not.

Additional context
Specifically I'm thinking about this for territories since I want to write more engaging posts but it's hard to be on top of it throughout the day each day. I could schedule a bunch of things at once to have content for every day.

[alexlwn123]

Strategy/Plan

• mirror @delete job flow (@schedule)
  • @schedule in X [seconds|minutes|etc.]
  • @schedule for [timestamp]
  • should work for all kinds of messages (comment, poll, post, etc.)
• Data Model
  • Add postScheduledAt field to Item model
  • Add isScheduled field too
  • link
• On message creation (upsert), enque a ScheduledPostJob
  • replace @schedule in X... with @schedule for [timestamp]
  • Only notify the poster (not subscribers)
  • link
• scheduled posts should be filtered from queries
  • filter item queries for !isScheduled
  • except for on a stacker's own profile page
    • Filter by "scheduled"
• If a scheduled post is deleted
  • delete the item
  • clear the scheduled post job
    * refund stacker?
• If a scheduled post is edited
  • clear the schedule post job
  • recreate the schedule job when the stacker hits save
    • Allows stacker to update when the post is scheduled
• When it's time to post the item
  * remove @schedule for ... line
  • updateItem to item.isScheduled = false
  • notify founder,subscribers,poster

[huumn]

Excellent breakdown!

IMO:

• No refund
• Keep @schedule in the post ... I like the transparency of it.

[ekzyis]

Damn, using @schedule like @delete is a very nice idea. I was worried about having some complicated UI with calendar inputs + time somehow. And relative inputs would still be missing then.

Now this can reuse a lot of stuff from @delete!

[huumn]

Agreed. super duper clever to just do another native bot

[ekzyis]

I think however this is implemented, it should also support drafts. A draft is basically a scheduled post with no time yet / scheduled into infinity.

UX might be different though. For example, not sure if @draft as an alias for @schedule with no options is good UX.

On another note, posting something is the same as scheduling it for right now.