Navigating the platform: The Lobby and wings

The Lobby is your platform home — a four-panel navigation hub that leads to the four wings of The Stream Facility.

The four wings

The Hearth
Your reader experience: your personal library (Want to Read / Reading / Finished), beta manuscripts you're approved for, and the community reading feed.

The Forge
Your author workspace: Studio drafts, the Codex world-builder, beta campaign management, and your world map.

The Stage
Discovery: search across books, series, authors, worlds, and beta campaigns; genre and audience filters; trending titles.

Local & You
Your social space: following feed, friend requests, notifications, and your public profile.

Dashboard vs. public pages

Your dashboard (accessed via the nav) is private and author-focused. Public pages — your author profile, book pages, world pages — are what readers see. Changes you make in the dashboard are reflected on public pages once you mark things as public.

Quick tip

The sidebar in your dashboard adapts to context — when you're inside a world, it shows Codex navigation; when you're in Studio, it shows your draft's outline. Look for breadcrumbs at the top of each page to orient yourself.