{
  "capturedAt": "2026-05-16",
  "method": {
    "discordApp": "使用用户已登录的 Discord Mac app 正常加入/浏览公开服务器；补读 Aippy 和 Loopit 时通过 macOS 可访问性树读取当前窗口可见文本。",
    "api": "使用 Discord 公开 invite API，无 Authorization header，只核验邀请码状态、服务器名、成员数、在线数。",
    "privacy": "不保存 Discord token、私信内容、成员列表或无关服务器侧栏。Aippy 和 Loopit 的补读发生在用户已自行加入服务器之后，只读取公开可见频道文本。"
  },
  "inviteProbe": [
    {
      "product": "Astrocade",
      "guild": "Astrocade AI",
      "inviteCodesChecked": ["XVeM2pkUA2", "mcFTnbCVk5", "ekVMRbqCag"],
      "status": "valid",
      "approximateMembers": 57408,
      "approximateOnline": 3318
    },
    {
      "product": "Rezona",
      "guild": "Rezona",
      "inviteCodesChecked": ["6BDN8Hkjg8", "PtJaEShpuW"],
      "status": "valid",
      "approximateMembers": 23818,
      "approximateOnline": 4383
    },
    {
      "product": "Sekai",
      "guild": "Sekai",
      "inviteCodesChecked": ["VTzM7S8FsP"],
      "status": "valid",
      "approximateMembers": 13795,
      "approximateOnline": 786
    },
    {
      "product": "Aippy",
      "guild": "Aippy",
      "inviteCodesChecked": ["BDTVw8cE", "wNAEGSzqvf", "8tERxHj3"],
      "status": "expired_or_unknown",
      "publicListing": "DiscordBotList shows approximately 13,473 members and 728 online; join page requires Turnstile captcha."
    },
    {
      "product": "Loopit",
      "guild": "Loopit Creative Community",
      "inviteCodesChecked": ["DcqQZE9Qp2", "vGBbp6Bmh9"],
      "status": "expired_or_no_working_public_invite_found",
      "publicListing": "Top.gg page describes prize pool, building events, Nitro giveaways, active chat, and LOOP guild tag; join route was blocked by Cloudflare challenge in command-line access."
    }
  ],
  "serversRead": [
    {
      "product": "Astrocade",
      "guild": "Astrocade AI",
      "joinedForResearch": true,
      "channelsObserved": [
        "game-jam-announcement",
        "announcements",
        "faq",
        "creator-chat",
        "creator-payout",
        "astro-academy",
        "tips-tricks"
      ],
      "onboardingObserved": [
        "Notifications are segmented into challenges, livestreams, product updates/news, office hours, community announcements, and polls.",
        "Member intent is segmented into create games, play games, or both."
      ],
      "creatorCommunityMechanics": [
        "Game Jam announcements include theme, start date, deadline, prize announcement date, submission tags, itch.io registration, and eligibility rules.",
        "Prize ladders combine Cash/Nitro rewards and separate audience picks from judges picks.",
        "Winners are invited toward ambassador status.",
        "Creator-chat shows peer playtesting and direct suggestions about challenge, visual cues, and game feel.",
        "Creator-payout channel creates social proof by letting paid creators publicly acknowledge rewards.",
        "Tips-tricks forum stores submission tutorials, prompt playbooks, multiplayer setup guides, growth-theme analysis, and quality checklists."
      ],
      "qualityGuidanceObserved": [
        "Prompt guidance covers animation, deltaTime, system replacement, and removing unused features.",
        "Quality advice includes obvious visual affordances such as facing direction, projectile origin, and vehicle orientation.",
        "Growth advice names quick, easy-to-start categories and recognisable themes as higher-performing formats."
      ]
    },
    {
      "product": "Rezona",
      "guild": "Rezona",
      "joinedForResearch": false,
      "channelsObserved": [
        "rules",
        "lets-prompt",
        "game-of-the-day",
        "game-of-the-week",
        "announcements",
        "rezona-events",
        "rezon-origin-submissions",
        "share-your-games",
        "tips",
        "bug-reports",
        "feature-requests"
      ],
      "creatorCommunityMechanics": [
        "Daily or frequent prompt posts provide fully specified playable concepts and direct creators to post results back into prompt/share channels.",
        "Game-of-the-day and game-of-the-week channels provide recurring recognition and game links.",
        "Share-your-games forum uses tags such as Prototype/WIP, Polished/Update, Looking for Feedback, and Let's prompt.",
        "Tips forum stores how-to posts for OS-like apps, saving/updating games, 3D games, bug fixes, and more reliable AI generation.",
        "Events include Nitro rewards, top active member gifts, HQ Selects, game nights, and submission channels.",
        "Announcements cover Forge cohort selection, 1000+ creator participation, Cohort 2 intent, and Ambassador Program monetization."
      ],
      "qualityGuidanceObserved": [
        "Prompts often specify core loop, level count, upgrades, enemy AI, room code flow, disconnect handling, and submission destination.",
        "Rules explicitly frame feedback as valuable when it is clear, helpful, and respectful.",
        "Bug and feature forums structure product feedback for the team."
      ]
    },
    {
      "product": "Sekai",
      "guild": "Sekai",
      "joinedForResearch": true,
      "channelsObserved": [
        "welcome",
        "main-announcement",
        "dev-updates",
        "sekai-workshop",
        "sekai-showcase",
        "landing-pad",
        "looking-for-group",
        "general-help-chat",
        "bug-reports"
      ],
      "onboardingObserved": [
        "Onboarding asks region, social platforms, whether the member creates or reacts to chaos, and notification preferences.",
        "Notification roles include announcements, app updates, polls/surveys, and events."
      ],
      "creatorCommunityMechanics": [
        "Welcome/server guide defines workshop for mini game/app discussion, showcase for sharing work, help for questions, and bug reports for creation issues.",
        "Main announcements call for Mini-App and Jam creators to submit intros and favorite work links for team review and spotlighting.",
        "Creator Feature Program invites members to submit Sekai links for social media featuring.",
        "Multiplayer rollout opened dedicated channels and directed creators to workshop, discovery, looking-for-group, and bug forums.",
        "Workshop shows peer testing and creator iteration on controls, crashes, and mobile usability."
      ],
      "qualityGuidanceObserved": [
        "Bug report guidelines ask for time, user ID, affected mini game/app link, screenshots or recordings, prompt/message, uploaded files, device and OS, and network details.",
        "Forum tags include official, duplicate, not a bug, noted by devs, UI/UX, performance, general, login, and other."
      ]
    },
    {
      "product": "Aippy",
      "guild": "Aippy",
      "joinedForResearch": true,
      "channelsObserved": [
        "announcement",
        "aippy-challenge"
      ],
      "creatorCommunityMechanics": [
        "Announcements combine creation challenges, credits-for-feedback, weekly bug bounty, and creator education feedback.",
        "Aippy-challenge contains user submissions with Aippy project links, invite counts, and reaction voting signals.",
        "Quick switcher showed daily-picks as a text channel, but this pass did not successfully jump into that channel, so it is not counted as read."
      ],
      "officialGuidanceObserved": [
        "Jujutsu Kaisen: Domain Expansion Jam was visible as a current server event.",
        "Spring Boredom Buster Challenge asks creators to make short interactive mini-games to kill time, relax, and spread fun.",
        "The challenge permits remixes with meaningful creative changes and uses #BoredomBuster plus #LuckySpring tags.",
        "Creator Talk asks members what Aippy games make them want to screenshot and share with friends, rewarding qualified replies with credits.",
        "Weekly Bug Bounty directs users to submit bugs in help forum, with weekly rewards starting at $50."
      ],
      "bestObservedCommunitySubmissions": [
        "Treasure Hunt game had the highest visible reaction count among sampled challenge posts: roughly 11 💯, 10 ✅, and 11 ❤️.",
        "Other visible prompt directions included Highway Rush, cyberpunk hacker game, and target practice challenge."
      ]
    },
    {
      "product": "Loopit",
      "guild": "Loopit's server",
      "joinedForResearch": true,
      "channelsObserved": [
        "rules",
        "paws-on-loopit"
      ],
      "creatorCommunityMechanics": [
        "Rules include reaction roles for Giveaway, Chat revive, Event, Game of the day, and Prompt of the day.",
        "Paws-on-loopit is an event submission channel centered on Loopit mascot characters Luna and Marco with #pawsonloopit.",
        "Channel list showed server-map, general-chat, leaderboard, share-creation, and game-trailers as visible community/showcase surfaces."
      ],
      "officialGuidanceObserved": [
        "Creators were guided to make playable games using Marco the dog and Luna the cat and submit Loopit share links with #pawsonloopit.",
        "The event channel was closed with a moderator note that Paws on Loopit had ended and would be archived.",
        "Prompt of the day and Game of the day roles indicate a recurring daily prompt / daily selection loop."
      ],
      "bestObservedCommunitySubmissions": [
        "Paws For Paws: wholesome interactive story game with Luna and Marco, story mode and simulation mode.",
        "Marco's Maze: arcade maze adventure with joystick or swipe controls.",
        "Luna's tag with friends: tag game with mouse, bunny, or bird, endless levels, and scoreboard.",
        "Marco/Luna melon drop merge game and Help Marco eat snackies and grow show mascot prompts being remixed into common casual loops."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "accessLimitations": [
    {
      "product": "Loopit",
      "reason": "Original public-invite pass did not enter the server; after the user joined it manually, this pass read visible rules and paws-on-loopit. Full Prompt of the day history was not read."
    },
    {
      "product": "Aippy",
      "reason": "Original public-invite pass did not bypass captcha; after the user joined it manually, this pass read visible announcement and aippy-challenge. daily-picks was visible in quick switcher but not successfully opened."
    }
  ],
  "deepDiveUpdate": {
    "capturedAt": "2026-05-17",
    "reportFile": "research/creator-discord-community-operations.zh.html",
    "additionalReadScope": {
      "Astrocade": [
        "announcements",
        "game-jam-announcement",
        "server-events",
        "creator-chat",
        "creator-payout",
        "hall-of-fame",
        "astro-academy",
        "game-showcase",
        "tips-tricks"
      ],
      "Rezona": [
        "lets-prompt",
        "game-of-the-day",
        "game-of-the-week",
        "announcements",
        "dev-updates",
        "rezona-events",
        "rezon-origin-submissions",
        "share-your-games",
        "tips",
        "bug-reports",
        "general-help"
      ],
      "Sekai": [
        "main-announcement",
        "dev-updates",
        "sekai-workshop",
        "sekai-showcase",
        "landing-pad",
        "looking-for-group",
        "general-help-chat",
        "bug-reports"
      ],
      "Aippy": [
        "announcement",
        "aippy-challenge"
      ],
      "Loopit": [
        "rules",
        "paws-on-loopit"
      ]
    },
    "dailyGuidanceFile": "research/creator-discord-study/daily-guidance.latest.json",
    "sanitization": "The merged report stores operational observations and paraphrased mechanics only, not raw channel dumps, local tokens, direct messages, or member lists."
  }
}
