Tribelands
Where hosts learn the platform by using it
Tribelands
Where the people who host communities on the Tribelands engine learn it by using it, and compare notes with each other.
Tribelands is by invitation. If you have been invited, sign in with the email address that was invited.
Sign inWhat this place is
A community, not a course. A place you come back to.
You join a feed where people are already talking, and Tribelands Guide is in the conversation with them. Around the feed are the parts that keep it worth reading: someone to ask, rooms with a purpose, a library you can listen to and messages that sort themselves. Everything on this page is the community as it runs, not a brochure of what it could be.
The feed is where everyone gathers.
The hub · The feed
It starts in the feed
The feed is the common ground. Members post, ask, and answer each other. New articles arrive here already narrated, so you can press play on the way somewhere. A poll shows up when the host wants to know something; a video post when someone has walked through a thing worth watching.
Everything else on this page branches from here: the Path is what the feed keeps pointing you to, the rooms are where a thread goes when it needs its own space, the library is where the articles live, and Tribelands Guide is who you ask when you want a straight answer.
Does the feed go quiet when nobody is around?
Only as much as real activity warrants: one question when the feed has been quiet for a day, and nothing over the top of a thread that is already moving.
Articles arrive in the feed with their narration, so you can press play.
Around it · The Expert
Someone to ask
Your community is built from its master framework: write what it is for and how it speaks, and the Expert's core, its levels and every other surface derive from it. Tribelands Guide is here to explain how, and to be the Expert you can try first.
Tribelands Guide is the community's own expert, built from its master framework: what the community is for, how it speaks, what it declines. Its answers, and the way it behaves in the feed and in rooms, all derive from that one document.
Ask it anything in scope and it answers plainly. It can draft a document with you and keep it, and you can hand it a file to read.
Start in the feed and read what people are already talking about; it tells you what the community is for faster than any description. Then open the first step of the Path and finish it before you do anything else. Ask me anything along the way, and I will answer from this community's own framework and library.
Around it · Rooms
Rooms, each with a charter
Rooms by subject — getting started, content, pricing, AI, a showcase — where hosts help each other and call on Tribelands Guide by name when they want a view.
When a thread in the feed needs its own space, it has one. Each room has a one-line purpose and a charter that says what belongs there and what does not, written the way a club writes its constitution, in plain words.
Tribelands Guide has read every charter. In some rooms it waits to be called by name; in others it stewards, keeping a thread on course and pointing at the article or step that answers the question. It never takes a room over.
Anything on the community's subject that has no better home yet. When a thread keeps recurring, it earns a room of its own.
Introductions and first questions. Everyone starts here.
Around it · The library
A library you can listen to
Narrated articles on running a community — framework, Expert, feed, library, Path, rooms, messaging, members, brand, launch — written for a busy host who wants the answer, the place and the next action.
Every article is narrated, properly, so the library works on a walk as well as at a desk. The feed lifts an article when it fits what people are talking about, so the library comes to you as often as you go to it.
Beyond the Path, courses go deeper on a single subject, in the same read-and-listen shape.
Articles the host marks public appear here, each with its narration.
Around it · Messages
Messages that sort themselves
A private inbox, announcements and a weekly digest here; in your own community, the same tools run your welcome flow, renewals and broadcasts through your own sending domain.
A private inbox, announcements from the host, and a weekly digest of what you missed. What comes in is read first by Tribelands Guide and labelled, so the host answers what needs a person and the rest is already handled.
Underneath · Your members
Your members, your ground
Your members are yours: your tiers, your prices, your Stripe account, your database. The platform charges a flat engine fee plus a transaction fee on what you sell, and never holds the money.
A community on Tribelands stands on its own ground: its tiers, its prices, its own payment account, its own database. The platform never holds the money.
Many communities, one common ground
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