A Discord recurring message bot with real schedule windows

These are two separate dials, and it helps to keep them straight. Recurring is the interval: a billboard holds an ordered set of frames — markdown, rich embeds, images — and the bot edits one message in place to show the next frame every N seconds or minutes. That loop runs continuously by default. Scheduled is the window on top of it: a Pro setting that says *only run this rotation on these weekdays, between these hours*.

So a typical event billboard rotates its frames every 15 minutes (recurring) but only does so Friday 18:00 through Sunday 23:00 (scheduled). The rest of the week it isn't cycling at all. You set the interval when you create the billboard; you set the window afterward in the dashboard. Free plans get the recurring loop; schedule windows are the Pro layer.

Nothing gets deleted, and nothing disappears. When a scheduled window closes, the billboard simply stops rotating and rests on whichever frame was showing last — the message stays in the channel, it just goes quiet. When the next window opens, rotation resumes on its own.

That "freeze in place" behavior is deliberate, because the alternative — yanking the message out of the channel every night — would be noisy and confusing. If you want the message gone entirely outside hours, that's a different tool (deactivate it), but for the common case of "run during the event / during office hours," pausing on the last frame is exactly what you want: the information stays readable, it just stops churning.

A few patterns this maps onto cleanly:

Create the billboard with an interval and channel, snapshot one or more messages into frames, activate it, then add the schedule window from the dashboard (Pro). The first three steps work from any channel the bot can see; the window is a dashboard setting because picking weekdays and hour ranges is a job for a form, not a slash flag. Full walkthrough in the tutorial.

The reason this works as a recurring poster is that it never actually posts repeatedly. Every rotation is an *edit* to the same bot-owned message, so members see one notice that quietly updates — not a fresh ping each interval and not a scroll-back graveyard of old reminders. That's the whole point, and it's covered in depth on recurring announcements without spamming and auto-updating messages.

If you also want the billboard to stay at the bottom of an active channel, turn on the sticky option (pin:true). Sticky means resend-to-bottom: when someone posts, the bot re-sends the billboard so it stays the last message in view. To be clear, that is not Discord's native pinned-messages list — it doesn't sit in the channel's pin header, it stays visible by being the newest message.

One honest caveat for very fast schedules: Discord blocks edits to messages older than an hour, so any billboard rotating faster than 60 seconds auto-deletes and reposts roughly every 50 minutes (re-applying sticky if it's on). It's expected, the bot handles it for you, and slower billboards are edited in place indefinitely.

Schedule windows are a Pro feature, alongside member-count and boost variables, a 10-second minimum interval, and higher limits (10 active billboards, 50 saved, 30 frames each). Free still gives you a full recurring billboard — 1 active, 5 frames, a 60-second floor, the {server.name}, {date}, and {time} variables, and no forced branding ever. Full breakdown at pricing. Pro is $4.99/mo or $49/yr per server (€4.99/€49), billed through Paddle, and downgrading never deletes anything — over-limit billboards pause and resume when you upgrade again.

You don't have to pay to try the schedule feature. A vote for the bot on top.gg grants 12 hours of Pro for a server of your choice — 24 hours on weekends, stackable up to 72 hours — and discordbotlist votes grant Pro too. A couple of votes a day is enough to keep a server's schedule windows running for free.

Invite the bot, create a billboard, set its interval, and add a schedule window when you're ready. It asks for least-privilege permissions only — View Channel, Send Messages, Embed Links, Attach Files, Read Message History, Manage Messages, and Pin Messages — no Administrator and no privileged intents for normal use, and you can scope all of it to a single channel. Commands are guild-only and gated to Manage Server.

Add Billboard Bot to Discord. Questions about windows, sticky behavior, or the hourly repost are answered on the FAQ.