Modern International Community

After UPSB shut down in 2018, the international English-speaking community that once inhabited it split into many individual groups that attempt to fulfil some or all of the utility that UPSB once provided. The ease of making a new community with technologies such as Discord have made it increasingly easy for the international community to fragment even further, resulting in a complicated muddle of smaller and larger groups that all lay claim to the original UPSB community in some way or other.

International community groups

This is a list of individual groups that claim to represent sections of the English-speaking, international community. Teams and private groups are omitted.

r/penspinning

See also: r/penspinning

Mango's Pen Spinning Discord

See also: Mango's Pen Spinning Discord

Pen Stock

See also: Pen Stock

International Pen Modding Community

See also: International Pen Modding Community

Created by VORE-TEX, an ex-FPSB moderator, The International Pen Modding Community or IPMC for short is an English-speaking community with the aim of advancing the field of Pen Modding in the hobby. It is a Discord server that has ties to a site that collects and displays pen mods with their tutorials.

The Workshop

See also: The Workshop

Fen Spinner

See also: Fen Spinner

Originally a small friend group in 2020, Fen Spinner officially split away from The Workshop in September 2020 after disagreements over the disconnect between community leadership and its members. Initially just a Discord server, Fen Spinner later made the website that includes this wiki project.

Naming Committee

See also: Naming Committee

Spin Archive

See also: Spin Archive

Set up by iColor, an ex-UPSB moderator, Spin Archive consists of a discord server and a website that collects and displays archived pen spinning content. Notably the website contains the archives for both UPSB V4 and UPSB V3. The goal is to collect and record the history of pen spinning.