Option to close sitewide commenting for a specific time (ie. from midnight to 6 am.)

[superklass]

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Hello Coral-Team!

I would like to ask if there already is a function available for closing sitewide commenting within a timeframe. Ie. daily from midnight until 6 am. in the morning.

I know we can manually close the commenting sitewide, But what we are looking for is an option to do this automatically , on a daily basis, for certain hours.

There should be a option in the coral admin interface to set a time for closing sitewide commenting. Best case would be to be able to set the from/to time on a daily basis (Mo, Tu, We, Th, Fr, Sa. Sun) and hours from/to. Within this timeframe it should not be possible for users to add new comments.

An option like this would help our community management with their work a lot.

Thanks a lot, Eric

[losowsky]

Thanks Eric. This isn't something we've had requested before, so it's not a priority for us (though of course you can always submit a PR to add it to our codebase.) I'd be interested to hear if anyone else here has a flow like this.

[ShittyAdvice]

I'd like to add to this that we would be interested as well. Currently we manually close them every evening and open them again in the mornings.

In the short term I don't have time to create a PR for this, but might do so in the future if I have some extra time and no one has picked this up yet

[czepan]

This would be very nice. We plan to use CoralTalk in the future but our current comment system is closed between midnight and 6am.

Since there is already a switch to disable/enable "Sitewide commenting" - would it be possible to solve this with a cronjob and the API ?

[ihardyslide]

+1, our Moderation team also closes commenting for all of our sites between midnight and 7 a.m. They would spare some time with this feature each day.