Embargoing a topic: is possible?

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As many people known, the IFComp postmortems is the place where authors finally openly discuss the comments and review and discuss mistakes and how to avoid it; of course, my entry has not few things to discuss and explain, and for now I kept the text in a file, edited when a new review appears, so at the right time, after mid-october I should only cut’n paste the text, which inevitably must be reformatted for the forum’s markup.

Hence, I think that the ideal should be allowing authors to post embargoed (news room sense, that is, to be released at a precise date) topics, to be put out after the end of judging period. (I understand that this led to the mess of an automated surge of new topic, whose impact on the server & our community’s fellows is easy to picture) but I think is a feature to be worth of discussing if is feasible and/or actually useful.

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

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It’s sort of possible, but it requires the forum administrators to do some setup work.

Discourse forums support a feature called “email in,” where you can email a specific address to create a new post in a new topic.

Once administrators have set it up, they can create an email address like blah@intfiction.org to post in a particular category. You can email that address to create a topic.

Then, you can use your email client (e.g. Gmail) to schedule an email to that address.

I don’t think “email in” is currently supported for this forum, and it may or may not be worth the trouble. (The forum does support email replies, which is a different feature.)