Posting time slots

A time slot is a time of day that a channel normally posts at. Slots are stored per channel, so one Instagram account can run at 09:00 and 13:00 while another runs at 18:00. You never set them yourself: every channel is created with a default set.

Where you see them

Slots are a convenience, not a restriction. You can always schedule a post at a time that is not a slot. Two things in the app use them:

1. The calendar’s Day view. Its rows are your channels’ slots, plus any time that already has a post. This is what makes Day view a plan for the day rather than 24 empty hours. See The calendar.
2. Create Post. The button asks for the next free slot before opening the composer, so a new post lands on a sensible time instead of now. The same lookup is the find-slot endpoint of the Public API, and what Schedule on a content card uses when the card has no planned date.

Note

A channel with no slots is perfectly valid — the Day view then only shows the times that already have a post, and Create Post falls back to a plain time.

There is no slot editor in the interface

The original project edits slots from the ... menu on a channel in the calendar sidebar. That sidebar was replaced by the account switcher and the editor went with it, see Manage a channel. Slots are read but never written from the app; the only way to change a channel’s slots today is the app’s own API, with your session.

Timezones

Slots are in your browser’s timezone, like everything else in UseNadia. There is no per-account timezone setting. A slot at 09:00 is 09:00 where you are sitting, not where the audience is. See Scheduling and publishing.