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# paid-boards

By amigo-malignancy01 on January 24, 2026
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We are going to implement a robust set of changes to safeguard certain boards from being claimed unless the user pays for the privilege to do so and we will make sure the error messages they run into are helpful and show them where they can go on the site to continue playing around or safely claim boards without running into this blocker. For those who do want to pay, we'll help them to find out how to do that. Here's what we'll do:

- Prices are subject to change at any time but are locked once purchased.
- When the subscription ends, the board is reverted back to shallow ownership.

## Terminology

Imagine the following board structure

1. My board
   - A. A branch of My board
     - i. a sub branch of 1A.

- A shallow owner is the implicit type of ownership for someone who claims a board. They reserve the right to own and update just that board. Anyone else can claim branches below it at any level. Their ownership covers `1`
- A community owner includes shallow ownership as well as exclusive rights to create and update branches (boards below the board). However, anyone else can claim branches below those branches. Their ownership covers `1` and `1A` as well as the right to create any branches under `1`. They do not own `i` unless they personally claim it.
- A Domain owner has full ownership of all levels, `1`, `1A`, and `1Ai`. No one can create branches at `1` or any level below it except them.

## Pricing

Ownership Type | $/month | Perpetual ownership
--- | --- | ---
Shallow | Free | Free
Community | $1/month (billed at $12/year) | $35
Domain | $3/month (billed at $36/yr) | $99

## UX

After a board is claimed, there will be an action row that looks like this

    - Ownership: Shallow (Upgrade to <a ...>Community</a> | <a ...>Domain</a>)
    <small>/_faq/paid-board-ownership</small>

TBC: How do we connect a stripe purchase with a board? I guess if we just have it tied to the board, we can intuit the current owner is the one who gets the privileges.

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