Invitations and invitation codes
FLAM is invite-only. Two doors — an invitation sent to your address, or a shareable code you paste at the door. Both end at the same gate, and neither bypasses it.
FLAM is invite-only. A sign-up whose email address has no invitation is refused, whichever way you sign in — email and password, magic link, or Google. There is one gate and everything walks it.
There are two ways to get an invitation. They end in the same place.
Door one — an invitation to your address
Someone at FLAM issues an invitation for your email address. You sign up with that address and you are in.
Door two — a code
A code looks like FLAM-INNER-7QK4M2: a label someone chose, then six
characters. It is meant to be shareable — a group chat, a newsletter, a room at
an event.
Paste it at the door alongside your email address. Redeeming writes the ordinary invitation for your address, and the sign-up that follows walks the same unchanged gate. A code does not open a second door; it mints a key to the first one.
If a code is refused, you stop there rather than being sent on to a sign-up that would refuse you without telling you why.
Why a code might not work
- It is used up. Every code carries a cap on how many invitations it can mint, and it is mandatory — a code that travelled without one would be an uncapped grant.
- It expired. Some codes carry a date.
- It was revoked. Immediate and final, from the next request onward.
- You have already used one. One invitation per person.
Revoking a code takes nothing away from anyone who already came through it. Their invitation and any tokens it granted are theirs.
One person, one door
Your identity is your normalised address, not the string you typed. Before the
gate compares anything it lowercases and trims, strips a +tag, treats
googlemail.com as gmail.com, and drops the dots in a Gmail local part.
So [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] versus
[email protected] are one person as far as invitations, trials and grants are
concerned. Redeeming a second code with a +tag does not get you a second
account or a second grant.
Disposable-domain addresses are refused outright.
What an invitation grants
The trial, always. Every new house gets 120 tokens for 7 days, invited or not — being invited does not disqualify you from what everyone else gets.
Whatever the code promised, if it promised anything. A code can carry a token grant. Those tokens are granted at sign-up, not at redemption, because when you redeem the code you do not have an account yet and there is no house to credit them to. They live 30 days from the grant.
If you redeemed a code that promised tokens and they are not there after sign-up, that is worth a ticket.
Related
- Seats, roles, and who can spend — inviting people to your own house
- Rollover, expiry, and which tokens go first
- Quality and cost
Refunds, and what a refund does to tokens
A refund reverses the whole grant it paid for, including the part already spent. It does not delete the frames you developed, and it does not push your balance below zero.
Seats, roles, and who can spend
The house owns the work and the wallet — not the person who made it. Four roles, one of which can spend real money and one of which cannot spend anything.