What a schedule is
A channel, a time, and what to post. You can have several, and each is turned on and off independently of the others.
Message
Pick the channel, write the message, and optionally choose a role to mention. The role mention is worth reserving for announcements that genuinely warrant interrupting people — a recurring reminder that pings everyone weekly gets the channel muted, which defeats the point of scheduling it.
Message styling
Optional. A Discord embed gives the message a title, a coloured bar down the side, and room for an image and a thumbnail. Worth using for announcements you want to stand out from ordinary chat, and worth skipping for a short reminder that reads better as plain text.
Schedule
Choose the days of the week, the time, and — importantly — the timezone.
Set the timezone to where your community is, not where you are. This is the setting people get wrong. A rules reminder set for 9am in the wrong timezone posts in the middle of the night for the audience it was written for, and it keeps doing that every week until somebody notices. Getting it right also means the message stays at 9am across daylight saving changes rather than drifting by an hour twice a year.
Enabling a schedule
Each schedule has its own switch, and the plugin has one at the top of the page. Both have to be on. Turning the plugin off stops every scheduled message without discarding any of them, which is what you want during an event or a maintenance window.
What people use it for
- Recurring rules and safety reminders
- Event and stream announcements
- Weekly check-ins and community prompts
- Reminding members that staff will never DM them first — worth pairing with the DM safety plugin, which sends the same message to each new member on join
Free
Scheduled messages are free on every server.