Glossary
Dropslate uses a small, fixed vocabulary, the same in the dashboard, the REST API and the MCP tools. The terms are listed alphabetically; the networks’ own words (Reel, Short, Page, container) are included because they appear in the composer and in error messages.
Dropslate terms
Section titled “Dropslate terms”Account - a connected social profile, page or channel: a YouTube channel, a Facebook Page, an Instagram Business or Creator account, a Threads profile, a TikTok account. Has a token state: ok, expired, revoked. The plan limits how many are connected, across all networks together.
API key - a bearer credential for the REST API and the stdio MCP server, ds_live_…, with the scope read or read + write. Shown once at creation; the server keeps its hash.
Cancel - takes a queued post off the queue, back to draft. Its slot returns to the month’s quota.
Confirm - the explicit step that creates posts: confirm: true in POST /posts and in the mutating MCP tools; the Confirm button in the plan dialog.
Draft - a post without a time, or one taken off the queue. One of the four states.
Duplicate - a new draft with the same file, text and targets as an existing post.
Failed - the network rejected the send. The post keeps the network’s response verbatim and can be retried. One of the four states.
Folder - a place a media file is in; a file is in exactly one. Folders nest.
Group - a named set of accounts. A post that targets a group becomes one post per account. From the Creator plan.
Live - the network accepted the post; it carries a link to the network’s copy. One of the four states. There is no way back from live.
Media - a file in the media library: image or video, with a status uploading, processing, ready or failed, and metadata. Posts reference media by id.
Member - a person with access to a workspace, with the role owner, admin or member.
Overrides - per-network text, title or tags in a plan or create request (overrides.threads.text), used instead of the base value for that network’s accounts.
Pin - marks a media file to keep; a pinned file is never removed after publishing.
Plan (dry run) - POST /posts/plan, dropslate_plan_post, the dialog in Compose: one row per account with the network, the time and a check. Creates nothing.
Plan (subscription) - Free, Creator, Studio, Agency; the internal Owner plan is never sold. Sets the limits under usage.
Post - one publication to one account at one time. A request with three targets creates three posts.
Post event - one line of a post’s timeline: created, queued, publishing, live, failed, retried, cancelled, rescheduled, each with its time and, for failed, the network’s message.
Publish at - a post’s time, written in the workspace’s time zone; also YouTube’s own field of the same name that Dropslate sets so YouTube publishes by its clock.
Queued - the post has a time and waits for the worker. One of the four states.
Reschedule - a new time for a queued post, or a first time for a draft.
Retention - the rule that removes a published file’s bytes from the server 72 hours after its post goes live, on every plan, unless the file is pinned or still used by a draft or a queued post. The row stays.
Retry - sends a failed post again. The worker retries transient failures on its own, 1, 5 and 15 minutes after; a person retries with the button or POST /posts/{id}/retry.
Scope - what a key or an MCP connection may do: read (list, get, plan) or write (upload, create, retry, cancel, delete).
Status line - the post in one sentence: Queued. YouTube · What We Made · 12 Sep, 18:00 (Kyiv). Returned by the API as statusLine, shown by the dashboard and reported by agents.
Targets - the accounts a post goes to: accountIds, or a groupId.
Time zone - the workspace’s clock (Settings → Workspace); every time shown or accepted is read in it.
Usage - the month’s counters against the plan: posts, storage, accounts, members. GET /whoami returns it.
Workspace - a customer’s own space: accounts, media, posts, members, plan. Nothing is shared between workspaces; an id from another workspace answers not_found.
Networks’ terms
Section titled “Networks’ terms”Business / Creator account - the two Instagram account types Meta’s API can publish to; a personal account cannot be connected.
Carousel - a post of several images or videos: 2–10 on Instagram, 2–20 on Threads, 2–35 photos on TikTok.
Container - Instagram’s and Threads’ intermediate object: Dropslate creates a container from the file, waits until it is ready, then publishes it.
Direct Post - TikTok’s API for publishing straight to the account, as opposed to sending a draft to the app’s inbox.
Page - a Facebook Page, the only thing Dropslate publishes to on Facebook - not a profile or a group. An Instagram Business account is linked to one.
Reel - a vertical short video on Instagram (up to 90 seconds counts as a Reel) or Facebook (3–90 seconds, 9:16).
Short - a vertical YouTube video up to 3 minutes; Dropslate marks it as such automatically.
Story - a full-screen post that expires in 24 hours, on Instagram or Facebook; carries no text.
Topic tag - the single topic a Threads post can carry, in its own field.
Unlisted - a YouTube visibility: reachable by link, not listed on the channel or in search. The safest setting for a test post.