The sky comes out of Discord
For months the most interesting thing this network produces has been visible in exactly one place, and it was not this site.
Every time a volunteer receiver hears something rare, that sighting gets written down and posted to a Discord channel: a 747-400, a BelugaXL, an A350-1000, a squawk that means somebody has a problem. That is over twelve hundred sightings a week. Meanwhile the live feed inside the game was ninety-six per cent arrival notices — somebody appeared in Hamburg, somebody appeared in Kyiv — and the chat had carried fifty-four human lines in four months, fifty of them written by one person.
So the stream was real, it was already public, and it only existed somewhere most of the people who feed us never open.
Three places it shows up now
On /live, a new Sky tab: the rarest airframes heard in the last three days, newest first, each with the type it is and a photo where we have a properly licensed one. Military and private aircraft are not listed, the same rule the Discord channels follow.
On a station page, the same list narrowed to what THAT antenna picked up. Joined on the aircraft's address against the station's own daily record for the same day, so it answers "your receiver" rather than "the network".
On your own /feed, the same card again, in the station you own. That is the thing people were opening Discord for, on the page that is already about their receiver.
Nothing new is published. Every row was posted to a public channel when it happened, with the same wording. Three days is as far back as it goes, because that is how long those records are kept.
Who else is here
Open the chat panel in the site header and the first thing it says now is how many people are around and how many of them are flying, with a row of faces. Signed-in visitors show their avatar and link to their page; everybody else is a country flag, which is the only true thing we know about them and quite enough to say "somebody in Poland is reading this".
This matters more than it sounds. The panel shipped a few hours ago into a shell that gave no sign anybody else existed, which made it a room you write into blind.
Two small things that make a conversation
Feed rows grew a ↩ button. It does not post anything: it opens the chat with the row named and the cursor waiting. Talking under something is what makes a channel feel alive, and the feed is the only thing here that is both fresh and shared.
And writing @someone in the chat now rings that person's notification bell. That is the one way a conversation reaches somebody who is not looking at the site — capped at three people per message, and at one bell per pair per minute, so a back-and-forth between two people who are both here does not fill anybody's inbox.
If you run a receiver and you have been checking Discord to see what it caught: you can stop. It is on your station page.