Skydex posts to X now
Every feature that ships here gets a post in this section. Until today, this was the only place it lived. If you never check the news page, you never heard about any of it.
Skydex now has an account on X, and two kinds of posts go out from it on their own.
Every Monday: what the network heard
A short summary posts once a week: how many aircraft the network heard over the past seven days, how many receivers are feeding right now, how many countries they're in. If a new station joined that week, its city gets named in the same post. A receiver in Rotterdam or Manila is a specific, real thing to mention, and it's the kind of detail that gets someone who runs a receiver of their own to notice.
If your station is one of the ones named, you'll get a notification here once the post actually goes out, not before. A draft can still get pulled during review before it posts, and telling you about a tweet that never happened would be worse than saying nothing at all.
Every post here, mirrored there
From now on, a post in this section also queues a short announcement on X, with a link back to the full write-up. Old posts aren't getting swept in all at once. Only ones written from today on will show up there, which means this post is the first one in line.
What doesn't change
Nothing about the site changes because of this. It's a second door into it, not a new feature inside it. A moderator still reads every draft before it goes out, both for the weekly summary and for feature announcements, and a young account paying per post can't afford to post carelessly and shouldn't want to either. When the numbers a post would need aren't there, whether the ingest went dark for a day or a week was genuinely quiet, the post just doesn't happen that week rather than getting written around the gap.
The account itself is new and the posting pipeline has not run for real yet. If a week goes by without anything from it, that's far more likely to be a draft sitting in review than the network actually going quiet.