Getting Started in the Community
Create your community profile, post to the feed, follow topic channels, and mention tickers that link to live research.
The Community is a private, members-only network of verified dividend investors built directly into the Terminal — a ranked main feed, Discord-style topic channels, and private messages, all tied to your Dividend Data account.
The Community is a Pro tool. Free accounts see a preview landing that explains it; the live community unlocks with Pro.
Your Community Profile
Your first visit asks you to create a community profile: a display name, a unique handle, and an avatar color (you can upload an avatar image later). Your profile is separate from your account details — other members see your display name and handle, never your email. You can edit everything, add a bio, or set your profile to private from your profile page.
The Main Feed
The feed is where members share ideas, milestones, and questions. Posts support rich text, images, videos (up to 50 MB), GIFs, and polls, and the feed ranks by engagement while regularly surfacing the newest posts. Reply to any post, quote it with your own take, or bookmark it to read later.
Topic Channels
The Channels section in the community sidebar holds dedicated channels for the conversations that repeat — sharing your buys, your sells, your portfolio, your dividends, and breaking news. Channels update live as members post, complete with typing indicators and who's online. The four share channels use reply threads: replies to a post open in a side thread, and the channel shows a one-line activity nudge when a thread gets a new reply. General and News discussion keep inline replies.
Mentions That Do Something
- Type @ while writing to mention a member — they get a notification.
- Type / to mention a ticker. It renders as a chip like $MSFT that links straight to that stock's research page, and hovering it shows live price, change, market cap, and yield.
Share Straight from Your Portfolio
The Portfolio can post to the share channels for you: a Share button posts your portfolio as percentage weights (dollar values are never included), any buy, sell, or dividend row in Activity or the Income Log can be shared with one click, and linked brokerages can auto-share new activity as it syncs — one combined post per update, only for the event types you turn on. A one-time setup chooses exactly what shared posts include, separately for trades (tickers only, shares and price, or full amounts) and for dividends (tickers only, money bags — one 💰 per digit of the payment, laid out like the real figure — or full amounts); buys made by reinvesting a dividend are flagged (DRIP) at every level, and everything — with an example of each post type — is editable under Portfolio Settings → Community Sharing, also reachable from the Share button's Sharing Settings. Nothing is ever shared without that setup.
XP and Badges
Posting, sharing trades, and receiving reactions earn XP toward community badges shown on your profile. It's a signal of contribution, not a leaderboard to grind.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who can see what I post?
Only signed-in Pro members can access the community — posts are never public, never indexed by search engines, and never visible to free or anonymous visitors.
What happens to my access if my Pro subscription lapses?
Community access is part of Pro. If your subscription ends you lose access until you resubscribe; your profile and history are kept.