Feature Overview
A module-by-module reference for what each part of Discotive does, how it connects to the rest of the platform, and the edge cases worth knowing about.
Dashboard
The Dashboard is your command center. It shows your current score and 24-hour delta, career stage, global percentile, consistency streak, score velocity chart, milestones, and quick previews of your Societies, Rivals, Alliances, and Vault. Full breakdown: Dashboard docs →
- To be known as — an editable professional title shown next to your name across the app.
- Career Stage — a tier derived from your total score, shown with progress toward the next stage.
- Score Velocity — a rolling chart of your score over time, used to visualize momentum rather than a single static number.
Scoring
The Discotive Score is a single integer stored on your account and mirrored to your public profile. Every change is written to an append-only score log with an action type, a delta, a reason string, and a timestamp — this log is what powers the "Latest Activity" feed on your Dashboard.
Categories that affect your score
| Category | Direction | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Onboarding completion | Up (one-time) | Applied once, atomically, when you finish the 8-step flow. |
| Vault asset verification | Up | Amount scales with the reviewer-assigned strength tier (Weak / Medium / Strong). |
| Connector verification (e.g. GitHub) | Up | Re-verification is rate-limited; see Vault docs. |
| Connector disconnect | Down | Removing a verified connector reverses its previously awarded points. |
| Login streak milestones | Up | Consecutive daily logins unlock periodic streak bonuses. |
| Alliance formation | Up | Both sides of an accepted alliance are rewarded. |
| Content engagement milestones | Up | Reaching reaction thresholds on your posts awards a small bonus. |
| Leaderboard movement | Up or down | Rank changes since the last daily recompute apply a small adjustment. |
Point values per action are tuned centrally for platform balance and can change. The categories above and their direction (up/down) are stable and documented; the score log on your Dashboard always shows the exact amount and reason for every change that happened to you.
Vault
The Vault is your verified credential store — resumes, certificates, project files, and connected external accounts. Every asset has a lifecycle:
- Pending — submitted, waiting in the admin review queue.
- Verified — approved with a strength tier (Weak, Medium, or Strong), contributes to your score, and can be pinned to your public Definition (up to 5 pinned assets).
- Rejected — not approved; the reason is shown on the asset and you may resubmit with clearer evidence.
Limits
| Limit | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Pending assets at once | 5 | 10 |
| Verification queue priority | Standard | Priority |
| Pinned "Definition" assets | Up to 5, regardless of plan | |
Connectors
Connectors link an external account (currently GitHub, with more planned) and pull verifiable activity into your Vault instead of a manual file upload. A connector re-verification has a 14-day cooldown from the last verification event to prevent farming repeated review cycles. Full breakdown: Connectors docs →
If you disconnect a connector and reconnect with a different external account, your prior verification history for that connector does not carry over — it starts a fresh Pending review.
Full Vault breakdown: Vault docs →
Leaderboard
The Leaderboard ranks every onboarded, public profile by Discotive Score. It has three lenses:
- Global — every ranked operator on the platform.
- Domain — filtered to your selected domain (Pro only for viewing your own domain percentile).
- Niche — a narrower filter within your domain (Pro only).
Global rank and percentile are recomputed once daily rather than on every page load, which keeps the feature affordable to run at scale while staying accurate to within a day. Your own live rank on the Leaderboard page is computed on demand so you always see an accurate number for yourself even between daily recomputes.
Ghost accounts can preview the Leaderboard read-only but do not appear in it themselves until onboarding is complete. Full breakdown: Leaderboard docs →
Connective
Connective is the social layer, split into four tabs:
- Feed — a personalized, ranked feed of posts from across every society, weighted by recency, your alliances, and domain relevance.
- Societies — domain-based guilds (Filmmaking, Tech, Design, Music, Business, and more). Free accounts can join up to 3; Pro accounts up to 7.
- Discover — brand pages and newly joined operators, designed to surface people and organizations before they're well-known.
- Network — your alliances (mutual connections), tracked targets/rivals, and incoming/outgoing alliance requests.
Alliance request limits
Free accounts can send up to 10 alliance requests per day; Pro accounts up to 20. There is no limit on how many requests you can receive or accept, subject to the same daily send-side cap applying to accept actions from the receiving side. Full breakdown: Connective docs →
Brand Pages
Any authenticated user can create a Brand Page for a company, studio, or institution they represent. A brand has a roster with three roles:
| Role | Can edit page | Can manage roster |
|---|---|---|
| Admin | Yes | Yes |
| Manager | Yes | No |
| Employee | No | No — listing only |
A brand can never be left with zero admins — the last remaining admin cannot be demoted or removed from the roster. Full breakdown: Brand Pages docs →
Notifications
Discotive sends both in-app and push notifications for score events, alliance activity, vault verification results, brand team changes, and DMs. Push notifications require browser permission — you can enable or revoke this at any time from Settings → Notifications.
Known limits
- Leaderboard rank updates daily, not instantly — your own live rank on the Leaderboard page itself is the accurate real-time figure.
- Vault review is manual and can take a few business days; Pro gets priority placement in the queue, not a guaranteed turnaround time.
- Connector re-verification is capped to once every 14 days per connector.
- Definition (pinned public Vault assets) is capped at 5 regardless of plan.