Join a board
Add a company under Ecosystems on your profile, up to ten. If that company runs a board, you join automatically and appear after the next daily refresh. The board lives on the company hub’s Community tab.Two boards, two questions
- Contributors answers “did you build here”. It counts attested participation, credited products, verified roles, and your tenure in the ecosystem, plus season-scoped engagement such as reviews, comments, upvotes, and repositories tagged with the board’s topic. The season view is a rolling window, so older activity ages out; the all-time view does not.
- Advocates answers “did you make it visible”. It counts your recent posts on X and articles on Dev.to that match the terms the board publishes, over a short rolling window.
Connect the account first
Each source is read once a day, and only from members who have connected and verified that account. No X connection means no posts count, however many you write. The same holds for Dev.to and GitHub. Three rules decide whether something you did actually counts:- Reposts never count. Original posts, quotes, and replies do.
- Forks never count, and a repository counts only for the member whose verified GitHub login owns it, so a repo under an org credits nobody.
- A match must be exact. Every X post is re-checked against the board’s precise term, and Dev.to tags and GitHub topics must match the tracked set outright. The board lists those terms.
XP, levels, and ranks
Signals earn XP. Time never takes an all-time level back: a quiet season pauses that progress rather than eroding it. Season standing is a rolling window, so older season activity ages out of it. A level falls only when XP is withdrawn, such as a revoked attestation, and the change appears in your breakdown. Your rank shows how it moved since yesterday, and you are notified when you climb or reach a new level.Who can move you
Almost nobody, and never quietly. The company chooses which signal families count and which terms it tracks, all published on the board, and cannot edit your score or reorder the board. The one exception is bonus XP: a company can grant or remove it, always with a written reason, always shown in your breakdown, and always notified to you. A removal can only take back XP that company granted. A paid plan buys the ability to run a board, never a quiet hand on one.Campaign XP and your attestation inbox
When a company attests that you took part in a campaign, it lands in your inbox. You choose whether it shows on your profile, you can dispute one that is wrong, and it can carry your role, such as speaker, organizer, mentor, judge, or volunteer. Attestations feed the board and the Validation side of Karma; board XP itself never changes Karma.Step off a board
Open account settings, then Privacy, and turn off community board participation. You stay in the ecosystem and keep every attestation; you just stop being ranked.Continue on Dapping
Choose your ecosystems
Open your profile to add the ecosystems you are part of and join their boards.
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