Nice thanks for the history lesson. :). Would love an alu reboot in a 60-75% width but I have too many projects to attempt this myself :(

I’m not a big rotary encoder fan and I am an avid clicky hater. But to each their own :)

Wait, this exists?

That’s actually a pretty cool layout. May be a terrible type feel but I’d love to own something in that layout for the collection. Of course with modern switches and a nice case.

Do those switches even need films?

I would disagree to some extent. But thanks mostly to YouTube everyone is obsessed with sound being the most important thing about their build. If a board sounds great but is shit to type on it’s still a shit board. What irks me is that so many designers make boards with shit sound profiles because they know they can just throw in a tape mod and some foam to make up for their shoddy work.

Yup, what should I build? What’s the best mod for xyz? What’s the best sounding switch? What plate is going to thock the most? These types of questions will drive most any reasonable person to be a jerk in response.

The other big problem is 99% of the time it’s a subjective question.

Me too.

Yeah I always had teachers and professors that said you spend at minimum 10 minutes researching a question before you ask it publicly. If everyone lived by this there would be a lot less questions asked.

That’s just humanity people are going to be dicks. It’s best to just not acknowledge it and ignore those people. Getting worked up over it is just going to bother you not the people who are actively dicks.

You’re an elitist about calling people an elitist. This whole anti-snob gang mentality is the real issue. There is more people out here accusing people of elitism and gatekeeping then there is actual elitism.

No actually that’s why this sub existed. r/customkeyboards exists because this sub became overrun with non-enthusiasts and people that like to throw around the words elitist and gatekeeper. When the original users from here got overrun with that crap they started a new sub.

And there’s a bunch of people that have become elitists about calling people elitist and acting like elitists are running around actively trying to keep people out of the hobby. And that’s just simply not the case, no one wants to keep people out of the hobby. The more people in the hobby the more new manufacturers, vendors, designers there will be. This whole “elitist” thing is not an actual case of elitism or gatekeeping it’s just a way for people to put down those they don’t agree with.

That community is a haven for people that buy rip off counterfeit products. I personally think it’s bad for the hobby.

Doesn’t matter what you do if you aren’t suggesting clones and cheap knock offs or you tell people anything they don’t want to hear you will be called elitist. It’s a hypocritical irony the calling of people elitists has become this whole other group of people that act elitist about being on the side of the average person.

Not sure why you are being downvoted. This is a lot of the reason why people are dicks to people asking questions. 1 they aren’t posting in the right place and 2 it’s something they have seen 1000 times and are sick of answering.

Lol, this sub has changed and it certainly hasn’t become more elite it’s become full of people that are actively ruining the hobby with support for clones and low cost rip-offs. I think what you are interpreting as elitism is people that have seen the same questions over and over for years and are tired of answering them.

Quite a few streamers are constantly begged to lick their boards. Sometimes they oblige. There is something weird about licking stuff in this community.

Kilo is around $450. That will fill your case.

Wipe it off.

It’s a macro pad with alphas keycaps on it. I’m sure with enough dedication you could learn to use it with layers but it’s not intended to be a full keyboard.

This has not been the enthusiast subreddit for a long time now.

PCBs are pretty cheap though. You could probably find 4 people to cover the cost of the others. Finding someone that 3D prints or has a laser cutter wouldn’t be too difficult either.

It’s not meant to be a normal everyday keyboard. It’s a macro pad and as far as macro pads go it’s huge.