I’ve never taken apart a Topre board, but looking at this video video, I’d say it was doable. Fiddly, maybe, but then again, so is opening up every switch on an MX board, too. Take your time, be gentle, pay close attention to what you’re doing… You’re probably going to be fine.

Same here, so unless something is fully open source, self hostable and preferably federating, I’m not picking it up.

Before opening up or resoldering any switches, I’d short the two pins with something (tweasers or similar) to confirm or rule out the switch itself as the cause.

They don’t, officially, as far as I know it’s always been an “at your own risk, might get your account banned” endeavor.

No, problem not solved, problem half-heartedly worked around. People dislike Discord for several reasons, bridging it to whatever different platform will at best be a bandaid.

It absolutely is. Yet, as Sean said, it’s also yet another bit of software to run and maintain, and ES is known to be a bit of an effort to keep going well.

Admins having only finite amounts of time and/or resources, might make the very understandable decision to leave it out.

ascetics

I think you mean “aesthetics”, an ascetic is something quite different. 😛

Why not make a “game” layer that doesn’t get in your game-playing way, and have mod-taps on the rest? (as far as they don’t interfere with the chords, of course)

Sure! I have several:

• the kit for the Lily is from 42 Keebs
• the caps are the Monster clone from Ali
• the case is based on the Lunar58 but with bolt eyes (or whatever they’re called) tacked on (I’ll ask the guy who did that for me if he plans on opening up the files)
• printed with Devil Design Copper filament

I have two control keys! They’re under D and K, through the miracle of mod-tap. Look into home row mods, it’s a game changer. Here’s my keymap for reference — it’s a bit of a work in progress, I keep finding little things to tweak or improve.

As it stands, the two outer thumbs (App/Alt) aren’t even mapped at the moment, they’re too tucky for my hands, and the outer row on the left isn’t exactly what the cap legends say, either.

They’re more ergo than a regular keyboard, I think, so personally I’m fine with it.

What are we looking at? Do share some specs!

Kbin can do Microblogs, but I’m not sure what you mean with “alternative to chronological feed”?

Oh, that is glorious.

If there’s a next time, I’ll use two MCUs and a TRRS like a normal weirdo.

Go RJ45 or go home! ;) With a Japanese duplex matrix you should have plenty of wires to have that layout working, I think. And if you go with two MCUs it’s even less of an issue.

Fun writeup, and you ended up with a functioning keyboard as a bonus! How’s the double row of thumb keys working out for you? Or do you only use your thumbs for the lower two and index/middle for the other ones, or…? I’ve never tried a board with two rows of thumb keys and somehow I don’t see myself liking them, but I see them around enough to give me FOMO.

Oh, that colemakclub one is more pleasant to use than colemak.academy which I used before. I’ll also certainly check out they Keyzen one, there might be something to that as well.

I really enjoy the board, but the thumbs are waaaay too tucky for me

Yeah… I took one look at that image and my thumbs started cramping up right away. ;)

It does look very snazzy, though!

Ha, kinda the same story for me.

For my first ergo split, I wanted to build a Corne, but ended up building a Lily due to not being able to order the Corne and being somewhat uncertain of “just 3 rows”. Now my mapping has gravitated to something that’d fit on a Corne, I don’t use the outermost thumbs and am weaning myself off of the num row. Still considering whether I should try and work with 5 columns instead of 6, but there’s some useful keys there — for now.

I can see myself building another split in the future (something that’s slightly more travel-friendly than the Lily), and it’s probably going to be a Corne. The Lily’s thumb cluster is slightly to far to the outer edge for my comfort.

That is completely wild, hats off!

It’s a different kind of effort, one that doesn’t give you RSI or at least improves your situation. And as explained, that mental effort is temporary, it gets engrained in your muscle memory quite quick.

I’m kinda curious about those caps, as well! The layout looks Colemak-ish, is it far off?