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It's like getting a nice new car with a dent on the bumper. You never see it while you're driving and lot of people will probably not notice it, but YOU know it's there and it makes the car feel less to you.
No, you cannot trim the switches. I tried sanding them down ever so slightly and it didnt help. I even went to the point where I sanded a thin hole and it still made contact. I'm not willing to sand the keycaps, but you could try that.
If you're using milky gaterons yes, but if you're not they're going to be fine.
As for LEDs just use 2x3x4 or 1.8mm.
The feeling of reduced clack is similar to unclipped cherry stabilizers. It's extremely subtle, but it is there on all of the setups I have tried.
The boards I found it: GH60 Satan(revCHN) - one with Gateron Black and one with Aristotles Coolermaster Rapid-i with Cherry Blue Coolermaster Masterkeys Pro S with cherry red Pok3r RGB with Cherry brown, Pok3r (non led) with Cherry Blue (swapped out for Gateron Green and still present)
The keycaps I used were: GMK Dolch (from Ivan's GB) GMK Hydro GMK Monkey GMK Skidata + EnjoyPBT red on beige EnjoyPBT blue cyrillic
I suppose it's possible the issue is with specific keycap sets, but I find that unlikely.
I have no issues on these boards when using: Ducky Thick PBT Vortex Thic PBT SP DSA dyesub, doubleshot, or blanks, SP SA profile both dyesub and doubleshot WASD custom sets and obviously no issues with the OEM caps that come on the boards
Your issue is placebo from the first time of you "noticing it." There are no problems with any Cherry Profile caps on north-facing LED-oriented switches if you're not using 2x3x4 LEDs or Zealencios.
And please don't crusade to dissuade people from joining a group buy because you have an issue that doesn't actually exist.
The Massdrop community is (hopefully) here to help inform each other. I'm trying my best to inform others who might care as much as I do.
I am simply stating my informed, tested results.
Even my co-workers and wife can feel the difference on bottom out with upside down switches on cherry profile caps. It certainly isn't placebo. Also, it has nothing to do with the LEDs. It is the switch housing.
> Please don't buy these board with inverted switches. End the stupidity
That hardly sounds like someone who is "just trying to inform people" of something. You clearly have some ill-conceived thoughts about something like this, and it's not conducive to building a community to outright label a design choice as "stupidity."
If you don't want to buy it because of issues you've personally experienced, then, by all means, save your money. But don't spout this nonsense, while also not giving any evidence originally, to try and hivemind others into your thought-process.
Once again, you don't notice it unless you look for it. But, similar to unclipped stabilizers, once you know it's there, it's quite annoying. To test, just slowly bottom out the key. Don't go all crazy and type 140wpm to hear it. Be subtle and slowly press until you hear the clack. Now try it on the row above (or below). It WILL sound different.
Again, you doing nothing but calling something "stupid" is not productive and doesn't help.
Lol http://i.imgur.com/AdyK1cj.jpg
There's clearly an issue here and it's been reported by multiple different people on different forums through the years. Whether people notice it or not is a whole different question.
You kind of come off as a climate change denier in your posts, clearly ignoring the facts.
Will anyone really notice or care about this? Probably not a lot, but there IS a difference. Just because it's not large enough in your opinion doesn't mean you should just blatantly deny it.
Quit acting like this is isolated and Doodled is some crazy outlier.
I don't see any point in arguing this. You're stuck in your ways and nothing I say will change your mind.
Like okay, you can take the stance that you don't think it's a big deal- but it's still a "thing that exists" so it's just kind of baffling to see someone in such denial about the truth.
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=83570
It's an issue that will happen and some may or may not notice it. But it does exist.
Best of luck though, maybe you can focus your denial efforts on something that actually doesn't exist.