Niche Economy: The rise and fall of the group buy model in mechanical keyboards (micro.thomasbaart.nl)

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Thomas Baart (of splitkb.com fame) dives into group buys:

Group buys are still used as a business model, but its popularity is dwindling quickly. Why is that, and is that justified?

Interesting read!

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[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 14 points 4 months ago

I’m just disheartened on the number of otherwise beautiful keycap sets that fail to use symbology for special keys. I’m talking shift, tab, enter, backspace, caps lock, num lock, home, end, page up, page down…

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 6 points 4 months ago

I've even seen arrow keys that use Up, Down, Left, Right and it makes me sad.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

That’s just wrong.

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