The Workshop

The Workshop is an English-speaking, international pen spinning community created by Hobby, a former UPSB moderator.

History

The Workshop was originally created in November/December 2018, following the announcement of the closure of UPSB in October the same year. Prior to this, the remaining UPSB members had been staying in Discord servers created before the closure of UPSB, such as the r/penspinning server and Mango's Pen Spinning Discord. It was announced publicly on January 28th, 2019 on Hobby's blog^[1], and a public link allowing anyone to join was shared on his blog in April the same year^[2]. It was also advertised on the UPSB facebook page following UPSB's closure^[3]^[4], leading to the common assumption that The Workshop is the de facto continuation of UPSB, although Hobby denies this idea.

References

[1] Hobby's blog post announcing The Workshop

[2] Hobby's blog post giving an invite link to The Workshop

[3] UPSB Facebook page post announcing the development of The Workshop

[4] UPSB Facebook page announcing the opening of The Workshop with invite link

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