ANSI supremacy? No? Just me?

My Aula F75 is the still the keyboard I gravitate towards most for work. I work with Excel often so I wanted a number pad but didn’t want a full sized keyboard for the times I don’t need the num pad. This Yunzii yz19 is my favorite that I’ve tried so far. I got the brown switches and they nearly match the reaper switches in my Aula f75. The sound is so close. I swapped out my keys to match and she’s perfect! I bought this on Amazon during prime day and it was under $30.

Anyone else using a separate number pad that they like?

I'm an over 40 father, PC gamer and IT professional. I've used a mechanical keyboard for years, but have never heard of a 'creamy' keyboard before. I was super intrigued. I started researching and WOW, you guys really get into this stuff! I had no idea a keyboard could be so involved.

Anyways, I bought a Ducky One III (he picked it out) and a tube of Gateron Oil Kings for the 'creamy' part.

Of course I had to buy a barebones for myself to home the MX Cherry blacks that the Ducky came with. I ended up getting a Keychron Q6-B1.

I'm happy with the way the Ducky turned out. We haven't modded it at all, just changed out the switches. I told my son that if he wanted to mod it, tape mod, holee mod, switch lube etc... we would do it together.

I'm happy with the Q6 too. I've never had such a nice keyboard. What a fun and satisfying hobby you guys have here!

Received GMK Metropolis a couple days ago and just unboxed it today. I was really excited to finally get a real GMK set after almost 5 years in the hobby and all I can say is that I'm not exactly impressed.

The sound and texture are nice, I genuinely notice the more clacky sound signature of these keycaps which I love. They help accentuate my Record Alice build even more. But looking closely, the legends don't seem to be as crystal clear and sharp as they're touted to be, in particular this one. Is it just placebo effect or did I receive a bad backspace?

Pic 1: GMK Modern Dolch ABS Doubleshot clones from AliExpress (top) and GMK Metropolis from NovelKeys (bottom) Pic 2: MT3 Susuwatari from Drop

Hand built a GMMK Pro on release and this is what I have to deal with… every few months a new switch dies and I have to switch one out, for a category of product that is supposed to have a long lifetime this is very disappointing. Probably not buying glorious again…

Will I be disappointed? When compared to a Keychron Q0 plus?

Just some criticism from me. As a person who has learned Japanese for some years now, I have some critique for keycap manufacturers. Those Japanese keycaps they sell sometimes contain wrongly written letters, not even the worst part, but some of my problem with the recent "hiragana keycaps" are: 1. Wrongly written characters (weirdly angled strokes and stuff) or use of fonts that breaks everything (stupid italic stuff or times new roman style of font) 2. Wrongly placed characters, probably the dumbest of them, for Kana Input, a hiragana character has to be placed under a specific latin character as per the Japanese input method. I've seen keycaps where the hiragana characters are placed on keys different from that of the Japanese input method. 3. Not something that's really relatable, but, Japanese people don't really use Kana input (the hiragana layout commonly found on keycaps), instead they use Romaji input, in which they use a regular keyboard, types two letters (one consonant and one vowel) which the computer translates into a Japanese character, for example if they want to type た (ta) they'll have to enter "t" and "a", instead of just straight up pressing the latin Q with a Japanese た below it. All of these problems probably came from high demands from a bunch of weebs and that sort of people who know nothing about Japanese language and only need Japanese themed stuff, leading to manufacturers rushing their production and leading to faulty products.

Reddit changes their API killing 3rd party apps out of pure greed!

Let's protest against this change!

I recently ordered the Ducky One 3 Daybreak from mechanicalkeyboards.com as a gift for my SO, knowing it would be a nice upgrade from an aging Corsair K70. When it arrived, out of the box it exhibited ghosting and stuttering when holding certain keys. Obviously this was a problem, so I contacted MK and sent it to them for repairs. Imagine my surprise when the keyboard turned up back in my mailbox a few weeks later, still broken, with only a sticky note to explain - "User Spill". I knew this couldn't be correct, because there had never been an opportunity for something to be spilled on this keyboard in the first place! Looking under the keycaps made me even more confused, as I couldn't find a spill anywhere.

Needless to say I contacted support to track down what happened, thinking it must have been a mistake. They insisted it wasn't, and I had them send me the photo they took during the RMA process (see below). I looked closely but couldn't find any evidence of a spill in the area shown in the picture. It's worth noting that I asked to make absolutely sure, and support insisted that keyboards returned for spill damage are not cleaned before being sent back. This means that if their claim is true, the spill should have still been there on the keyboard when it was returned from repair. It wasn't.

To add insult to injury, as far as I can tell there's no way to talk to anyone with actual decision making authority in MK's support line. Every rep I've talked to has said the liquid damage on file means my warranty is void, and refuses to escalate me to anyone higher up the chain. One even went so far as to say I should just buy another keyboard from them, despite the fact that absolutely nothing in this process has given me the confidence that sinking $200 more into this company will be worth my time. Unfortunately, they're the only place to buy this keyboard in the United States (Amazon doesn't carry the full size model, only the TKL). Is there anything I can do, or am I stuck with an overpriced paperweight and no way to replace it?

TL;DR - mechanicalkeyboards.com sends me a broken keyboard, tells me it's my fault when I ship it in for repair, and refuses to do anything to resolve my problems. Do I have any options?

EDIT: After another inspection of the photos, I've noticed something that clearly indicates that MK is lying. Here's some zoom-ins, note the white line to the right of the red switch:

This is just ridiculous.

Edit 2: Someone from MK commented in this thread saying they'll review my case and talk to me tomorrow. This doesn't fix the systemic issue, but might mean I'll at least get my money back. I'll update again once that happens!

Edit 3: Thank you all so much for helping me get the attention of the company so that this could be dealt with. I've gotten a response from MK support, and they've offered to refund my purchase - I haven't received the refund yet, but hopefully it does end up happening. The full email for reference:

I've asked when I should expect the refund, and I'll make another update soon to let you all know whether it goes through.

Edit 4 (final): The refund has gone through! Thank you all again!

As per the title I am searching for the best linear switch. From left to right, top to bottom:

Baby Racoon

Gateron Smoothie

Durock silent linear dolphin

Gateron ks9 silent 2.0 white

Pearlio linear

Roller linear

Durock ice linear

Mx speed silver

Durock black lotus (unlubed)

Kalih cilone limacina linear

Gateron ink black v2

Gateron Jupiter red

Gateron yellow pro

North Pole yellow 2.0

Feel free to ask questions or comment. I’ll post my thoughts as I try each switch.