I feel like we could all benefit heavily from a sticky post with some basic info for people coming here. Link to this post for good clients, link to obosob's post on why we're on Lemmy now, any other helpful stuff for Lemmy newbs like me. u/obosob what do you think?

Good idea on the single key pcbs. Got a link? And man, sorry about the explosion. Totally didn't think about how it'd affect sales. So far I still don't think it was a good move. I keep running into more buggy stuff with lemmy, and every time I search for something on google I get a reddit link. No new posts on here are gonna get picked up by Google so that's the end of searchability.

This is a pretty significant long term issue. Overall search-ability is just an issue with federated content.

On the plus side it looks like I can reply to comments after all. It just won't let me know Thunder (definitely not using that client now)

Yup, I was using Thunder and it just wasn't working. I updated the post.

Yup, it was a client thing. Thunder wouldn't let me reply to replies

Oh sick that's like exactly what I want lol. Now I just got to find a shop that sells these PCBs. Not really interested in spending the time to order them myself.

@rafaelromao for sure on the low cost way to mess around with mappings. I still have my original ergodox EZ precisely for trying out new layouts. I love their online configurator for how fast it is to set something up and prototype an idea, so I've been doing that a little while now and I'm thinking the layout I described in this post is what I want to build next. I've never built a unibody before, so the hummingbird looks fun to try. Like the idea of a single controller, and the portability of a unibody.

This was a poor post on my part. I was looking for a vendor that might still be selling these (not for a private trade like mechmarket). Was also curious about alternatives to the Gergoplex since it's not longer in production AFAIK. The thumb cluster on it is really unique, so while I know there are similar sizes boards out there I was really looking specifically for this board.

So glad to see this coming along - the idea of modularizing things will make it so much easier for folks to tinker with existing boards and truly customize them to their own needs.

Just did, and yes edits apparently work! That's a big relief - edits and replies are like 75% of communication on Reddit.

As I just wrote, I didn't intend this to be a trade. I wasn't sure whether Gergoplex was still in production or not, so I was trying to find vendors that might still have PCBs. Haven't found anything which makes sense since it appears it's not on production.

solder them to what? I don't see anything that would work on a typical switch mount in a pcb. Not trying to make something hotswap.

That's not a bad idea! I'll see if I can try that.

This is beautiful. Exactly the layout that I've been wanting too - 23332 for the fingers and 2 thumbs. I think this is the ideal balance between too few and too many keys while remaining super comfy.

I've had similar experiences and have had much more luck with combo mods. This article describes the idea and it works well. I use a slight variation in that all of my combos are one shot so you're not having to make weird finger contortions to reach things, just hit the combo and then the letter. https://jasoncarloscox.com/blog/combo-mods/

Thumb cluster. I'm using a 3x5 corne right now but the thumb is just too high up, the Gergoplex looks like a much nicer fit for me. Microdox is another good option.

This looks awesome

Thanks for the note, that's why I cut off the label in the photo.

Glad to see everyone keeping the community alive over here. I was super skeptical this would look anything like reddit but so far it's actually quite similar minus annoying ads, so all around good stuff.

You gotta give it more time, it'll come. Then you'll never want to go back. One thing that really helps me is using karabiner elements on Mac to have some of the improvements I get with my split keyboard right there on my laptop. Here's how I use it: https://github.com/jhelvy/jkeyboard