Will cron jobs be supported on ICP?

+1 on this. Some financial applications: liquidate overleveraged positions - Maker had issues earlier this year because their keeper bots were not liquidating in a timely manner interest rate calculations - lending protocols only update their rates on every user action, when ideally this should ha…

[image] senior.joinu: I’m also interested in this topic. It is possible to implement. Yes, me too. 20 chars

+1 Saying something to get to 20 characters.

Did you ever find out if they have? Embarrassing that the Dfinity team doesnt one someone monitoring these forums to answer questions

These forums are monitored 24 hours a day. We give explicit timelines for many, but not every, feature request. We are aware of a need for this and have discussed it internally. I apologize as I am sure that is not the answer you wanted to hear. There is still many system critical, performance criti…

Thanks for finally answering after 3 months. So are you confirming that there is currently no functionality within DFINITY to have any sort of scheduled tasks?

No, not currently exposed to the end user. I suspect the subnet management canister aaaaa-aa will provide API for this in the future, but, as I stated previously, I cannot give an explicit timeline for this. I can say that our code base will be made public with a month, so very soon any developer ca…

There’s also a new team being set up that’ll be dedicated to developer support within the forum and wider community for you, the developer community will be getting more and more focus going forward, see Stanley’s recent opening post for news on this: https://forum.dfinity.org/t/developer-experience…

So in other word DFINITY is currently not suitable for any development apart from simple web pages without server logic which is a shame. Are you actually hoping that external developers will implement the basic features in your platform for free?

[image] mojjeietuna: DFINITY is currently not suitable for any development apart from simple web pages without server logic I’m not suggesting that at all. Many use cases for traditional cloud computing services are also applicable to the IC. I would estimate that online gaming has seen more …

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