1. Explore directory
Explore loads discoverable Stages in pages of 24, ordered with the newest-created Stage first. Its 200 ms debounced search cancels an older request and matches text in Stage name, handle, headline, and description. Load more requests the next page.
A directory card shows the Stage image or initial fallback, name, handle, optional headline, active-member count, and Level. Explore also has loading, retry, empty, and no-match states. It does not return individual content items.
| Aspect | Explore | Stage search |
|---|---|---|
| What it finds | Discoverable Stages | Visible published and ready articles, videos, podcast episodes, posts, products, and courses in one Stage |
| Text matched | Stage name, handle, headline, and description | Type-specific title plus description or body-preview fields |
| Result order | Newest-created Stage first | Newest result first after merging content families |
| Result size | 24 per page with Load more | Up to 30 per request with Load more when another cursor page is available |
| Not implemented | Categories, sorting, rankings, follows, saved Stages, recommendations, and content-level results | Search across events, members, channels, comments, tips, or newsletters as separate objects |
2. Stage Levels
You can also arrive through a creator's direct link. The Stage keeps its identity and creator-resolved presentation, while its Level selects the public home you see.
| Level | Audience home |
|---|---|
| Level 1 · Link in bio | A creator-configured block page. It can link to or surface valid creator content and offers, but it is not a universal chronological feed. |
| Level 2 · Content hub | A content home with Home, Articles, Videos, Courses, Podcast, Products, Updates, and Events navigation. |
| Level 3 · Community | A configured activity home with real Stage channels, Members, and capability-dependent Events and Leaderboard navigation. |
3. Browse Level 2
The Level 2 content hub uses creator-friendly Home, Articles, Videos, Courses, Podcast, Products, Updates, and Events navigation. Content-type tabs filter the viewer-scoped feed and keep the selection in the shareable URL; Events opens the Stage events surface when that capability is available.
- Select a type tab
- Read the newest-published visible feed
- Open the real detail or player route
- Load older items with the timestamp cursor
The Home view can use creator-configured hero, featured, latest-content, product, event, and newsletter sections. Products, events, and newsletter sections require their matching capability and real data. Filtered tabs keep the hero and latest-content structure.
Content-card fields
- A real thumbnail or content-type fallback
- Content type, title, and article preview text when present
- Author name, relative publication time, and duration when present
- Non-zero like and comment counts
- Inline play or pause for a ready audio-podcast item through the persistent player
Stage-home cards do not show view counts, ratings, recommendation reasons, or a save-for-later action. Their link resolves to the implemented article, post, full-video, short-video, podcast, product-channel, or course destination.
4. Community navigation
Level 3 uses creator-configured home sections for pinned activity, active discussions, upcoming events, new members, latest content, and—when Gamification is available—a leaderboard.
Community navigation includes Home, the Stage's real channel groups and channels, and Members. Leaderboard and Events links appear only when their capabilities are available. An anonymous Join action goes through Stage-aware login; an eligible signed-in non-admin viewer can open the live plan picker.
5. Search inside a Stage
The creator-branded header on Level 2 and Level 3 opens a separate Stage search page. Submit a query of 1–128 characters; each request asks for up to 30 results and routes each one to its actual content page.
Search covers viewer-visible published articles, full and short videos with ready HLS, ready audio and video podcast episodes, published non-pending posts, published products, and published courses. It matches the type's title plus description or body-preview data, merges candidates newest-first, and applies the same channel visibility used by the Stage feed.
The search page has URL-backed content-type filters for All, Articles, Videos, Podcasts, Posts, Products, and Courses. When another cursor page is available, Load more keeps the current results and appends the next stable newest-first page. Events, members, channels, comments, tips, and newsletters as separate objects are not searched.
6. Channels & formats
- Post Feed
- Full video
- Short video
- Articles & newsletters
- Learning course
- Digital products
- Community Chat
- Video podcast
- Audio podcast
Level 2 combines Full video and Short video under Videos, and Video podcast and Audio podcast under Podcasts. A creator can still expose each real channel separately in Stage navigation.
- Posts and articles
- Posts can contain rich text, photos, embedded video, or polls. Articles use the long-form rich-text reading surface.
- Video and podcast
- Full and short videos use different routes and player compositions. Audio and video podcast episodes keep their podcast-series context. No Help-page duration threshold defines these formats.
- Products and courses
- Products and courses can use fixed purchase, inclusion in a Stage plan, or both. A course can expose selected public-preview lessons while protecting the rest through enrollment.
- Events and newsletters
- These can appear as capability-backed Stage sections. They are not separate Stage-search result types in the current search UI.
7. Who can see what
| Viewer | Visible channels | Additional boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Anonymous visitor | Published content in public, enabled channels | No account; object readiness and public access still apply |
| Active Stage member | Public channels plus non-public channels included in the active Stage plan | Purchase, enrollment, and object rules can still apply |
| Stage admin | All non-deleted Stage channels when not banned | Management actions remain permission-based |
| Banned viewer | No Stage channels, including public channels | The active ban takes precedence over public or plan access |
Channel visibility is only the first boundary. The channel's type must be enabled and available, and an object can still require publication, media readiness, purchase, enrollment, a Stage plan, or another viewer-specific rule.
8. Readiness & current limits
- Stage search excludes unpublished or future-scheduled articles, videos, podcast episodes, and posts.
- Pending-approval or deleted posts do not appear in search. Videos require ready HLS media; podcast episodes require ready audio or video media.
- Products and courses must be published. Their detail pages can still require purchase, Stage-plan inclusion, or enrollment.
- Explore has no content results, category or topic filter, sorting, ranking, following, saved Stages, trending section, or personalized recommendation model.
- Stage search has URL-backed content-type filters for All, Articles, Videos, Podcasts, Posts, Products, and Courses, plus cursor-backed Load more when another result page exists.
- The product defines full versus short video by channel/type contract, not by a five-minute or three-minute Help-page threshold.
- Finding an item does not guarantee free access or that likes, comments, bookmarks, sharing, tips, purchase, enrollment, RSVP, or posting is available.
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