Support for Alternative Layouts
This is a summary of how alternative layouts have been supported by kits such as Colevrak and Homing. It is not a discussion of alt layout performance and development, but if that interests you I highly recommend starting with Pascal Getreuer’s A guide to alt keyboard layouts (why, how, which one?). It’s a concise and comprehensive overview with links to some great sites that go deeper. He also has a separate Links about keyboards page. The Keyboard layouts doc he recommends explains layout goals and metrics in detail, summarizing the alt layouts discussed here as well as more than one hundred others. Sculpted-profile The majority of custom keycap sets are sculpted-profile (Cherry, SA, MT3, KAT, etc. - more on profiles generally here) so let’s start there. Because each row has a unique keycap shape, alt layouts require a unique keycap for each legend that moves off its QWERTY row. At first there were two The Dvorak layout was patented in 1936 by August Dvorak & William L....
Apr 23, 2024
Due to having a job, I wasn't able to purchase anything, even 15 minutes after drop started.
Great planning there, guys.
Oh well, I don't expect anything from MD or you, I was simply stating that system is retarded.
https://www.massdrop.com/talk/3161/keycap-re-cap-returns (linked in the top post)
> With any of our keycap drops, we generally order more units than we need just in case. Over time, we end up with a closet full of keycap sets that need to find a home so we’re once again offering these hard-to-find items back to the community.
I just started getting into mech keyboards recently, all my previous drops were non-mech keyboards related, and it appears that mech keyboard community and corresponding drops (at least when it comes to these expensive key sets) have a life of its own, heh.
I actually wanted to get 3 different quality sets (GMX, SA, DSA) since I want to find out which one will be most suitable for me and my way of typing (rather than ordering random sets from random Chinese sites and risking to get crappy things), I had no idea this was so 'precious'. Everything has a learning curve, I guess.
I'll have to stick with Chinese sets, after all :)
I understand now that this was not a usual drop where they'd send orders to manufacturer(s) after drop is over, my bad for assuming wrongly.
edit: But I don't get it - drop is lasting for 7 days, but apparently everyone knew that things will be sold out within minutes. That is confusing :)
As for your question, MD has held a few of these drops before and they were well known for being sold out within a minute of the drop activating. If you're not there already, check out /r/MechanicalKeyboards or /r/MechMarket for news as well!
I am an old fart, I've used mech keyboards 20 years ago, and it was only 3 weeks ago that I purchased a mech keyboard again (after trying friend's Das 4 Keyboard - ugly one with blank caps, but had those brown switches). So yeah, information overload did its thing, I am simply overwhelmed with too much information. I still can't comprehend that people invest so much in keyboards and key caps, for me it was just another tool, I didn't realize how big the communities are.
I will try to do much much more reading and hopefully I'll be better prepared for the next drop of this kind. Or I will just try buying the sets for the full price (I live in France, don't have much available locally, except few shops in the UK, I believe). But then again, for the price of such a set, I might buy a Topre keyboard (which is, allegedly, the best thing ever).
I think I am starting to understand why this drop sold out so quickly :)
Thanks once again.
I think I will start by reading the wiki on /r/mechanicalkeyboards - it appears that there is just too much that I don't understand :)