Feature
Aura pathways
Aura is scarce on purpose: five to give each day. A pathway is how you trace what happened after someone spent it—not a mysterious like count.
What you can trace
On a hub or a file with Aura, you can open who gave it. That is the start of the pathway: real members, not an anonymous heap of hearts.
Creators also see Aura on cards and in analytics— enough to tell “people found this worth a scarce vote” from “this hub has views but no conviction.”
File to hub (and not the reverse)
Give Aura to a noteworthy file inside a hub, and that hub also receives 1 Aura. The file keeps its own count. Giving Aura only to the hub does not sprinkle Aura onto every file inside it.
That one-way lift is the pathway in the catalog: a strong page or clip can pull the whole hub up without pretending every file earned the same signal.
How it shows up in discovery
File Aura helps noteworthy files surface in search and ranking. Hub Aura does not roll down. For You can weigh Aura as one of several signals—alongside saves, follows, and taste—not as a paid boost.
You cannot give Aura to your own hubs or files. Daily budget resets at midnight UTC. You can take Aura back (as the product allows) and spend it somewhere else; past endorsements are not wiped at midnight.
What a pathway is not
Aura is not money, crypto, or a star rating. It does not unlock a paywall. A pathway will not show you a secret ranking formula—it shows the human trail: who spent scarce recognition, on which file or hub, and that the hub felt a +1 when a file did.
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