Same sky, new hangar: where the drone community went

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If you're subscribed here, you've probably noticed it has been a little quiet lately.

That's nobody's fault, really. Communities need someone with time, and time has this annoying habit of quietly disappearing when you're not looking.

@ksteem kept this place going for years, and did it well. Anyone who has ever tried to run a community knows that's a lot less glamorous than it sounds: reading everything, answering everyone, showing up week after week. He did that, for a long time, for a fairly small corner of Hive.

So before anything else: thank you, @ksteem.

This summer he asked if I wanted to take the drone community further. I said yes, probably a bit too quickly, and that's how we ended up here.

So what does that mean for this place?

Not much, honestly.

This community stays exactly where it is. Your posts stay where they are. Nothing gets deleted, nothing gets moved, and nobody has to do anything at all.

It simply continues as the archive, and the active part moved to a new community:

👉 Drone (hive-193236)

Same subject, same rules (I kept @ksteem's, they were good), just a place where someone is actually watching the front door again. Posts there get read, and get a curation vote from the community account.

It's been open since August, and the first flights have already landed: valleys in Minas Gerais, a pool party from above, a beach run by @ksteem himself. Small, but alive.

Posting there

Nothing new to learn. When you write your post on PeakD, Ecency or any other Hive frontend, pick Drone in the community selector instead of KDrone. That's it. Your usual tags work the same.

If you'd like to keep an eye on it, hit subscribe on the community page, and it will show up in your feed.

And if you'd rather stay here?

Then stay here. Genuinely.

I'm not going to pretend this is urgent, because it isn't. There's no deadline, no button you have to press today, and nobody is going to chase you about it.

But if you do post something aerial one of these days and you'd like a few more people to see it, there's a new hangar with the lights on.

Drone photography, FPV, video, RC planes, that one weird angle of your own street... it all fits. And you really don't need spectacular scenery for it. I've said this before and I'll keep saying it: half the good stuff is behind the corner, you just have to look up.

So: no pressure, no rush.

Just a note from someone who happens to have the keys now, in case you'd like to know where everyone went.

Same sky, new hangar.

See you from above. 🚁

🔧 I build things on Hive...

Apparently I have a slight problem with leaving things alone when I think they could work better, so over time that turned into quite a collection of free Hive tools.

Account stats, tipping, earnings, governance, witness tools and several other things I probably built because I needed them myself first.

👉 Explore my Hive tools

Everything is free to use, and I'm still adding things. Because apparently having hobbies wasn't enough.

🤖 ...and I run a witness too

A lot of those tools, bots and other experiments exist because I'm still very much invested in building on Hive, including the boring infrastructure underneath it all.

If you think that deserves a witness vote:

👉 Vote for @botlord
But these are also backed by me!
👉 Vote for @nathalie-s
👉 Vote for @aliveandmmb
👉 Vote for @bradleyarrow

And while you're there, it never hurts to check whether the rest of your witness votes are still going to active witnesses. Ghosts are notoriously bad at producing blocks.