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Unpublishing moves a published announcement back to editable. The pending send is cancelled, every message the announcement already posted is removed from your Discord channel, and any sends that have not gone out yet return to your plan’s allowance.

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Playbooks

Stop a recurring announcement

Playbook: pause a schedule to edit it, or let it finish.

Track your announcement messages

Playbook: read the calendar and manage individual sends.

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Unpublish it

Click Unpublish in the header, or pick Unpublish from the overflow menu, then confirm. The announcement returns to a draft you can edit.

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What unpublishing does

  • Every message this announcement posted is removed from your Discord channel.
  • The next pending send is cancelled, so nothing more posts.
  • Sends that have not fired yet return to your plan’s allowance.
  • The content and schedule unlock, so you can edit again.
Stopping an announcement stops it in your community too. A weekly announcement you unpublish after five posts leaves five fewer messages in the channel, not five stale ones for your players to keep finding. Each message that came down reads as Taken down on the Messages tab, so you keep the record of what went out and when.

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If a post cannot come down

If the Userplay bot lost access to the channel, that post stays up and the send keeps its Sent status with the reason shown on the send’s details. Restore the bot’s permissions, then take it down from the send’s details.

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Sends come back, deliveries do not

Publishing reserves a send for every post an announcement will make. Unpublishing returns only the ones that never fired. A delivery is a real post to your community, so it is never refunded once it goes out. Removing the post afterwards does not change that: the send was spent the moment it was delivered.

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Unpublished is not completed

Both stages stop future sends, but they mean different things. Unpublish is a pause you can undo by publishing again. Completed is the natural end of a schedule.

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Editing then republishing

To change a live announcement, unpublish it, make your edits on the Compose or About tab, and publish again. Republishing reserves sends afresh for whatever the schedule now holds.

Publish an announcement

Take it live again after editing.

Set a recurrence

Adjust the cadence or the number of sends while unpublished.

Track your announcement messages

See which sends fired before you unpublished.

Archive an announcement

Remove it from your lists for good.