What "gimmicks" should be in keyboards?

[@GibusGang]

There should be this gimmick where instead of springs it's like these rubber domes over a conductive membrane

[@coffeedudeguy]

Maybe keyboards can have built-in essential oil diffusers so other people don’t have to know that we.. I mean the user did not shower

[@waterbottler2761]

Love how after the venus type test you can see the cable slowly shrink away as if it didn't want to touch the board with a 10 foot pole

[@Tunnelsnakes]

Honestly, there should be no constraints as to what gimmicks belong to a board or not. Having more variety of functionalities expands interest of people who wouldn’t get into boards otherwise. And thus, it helps the hobby and community grow overall. If you don’t like the design of a board, just don’t subscribe and buy into it, simple as that. If people gatekeep board designs, we’re just going to get hundred of board designs that look almost exactly the same, and that is just boring.

[@z4k1_zaki65]

Totally agree with you here, these people are just bunch of elitist and gatekeepers at this point

[@BBBBBBx]

+1 for oled screens 🔥 I’m more excited for the Tenet now because of the typing bongo cat 👀

[@TIB1243S]

On the GoPolar GG86 (or GG87) it works as a lock light bank as well so it's not a gimmick imo, compared to just displaying anything of your choice

[@verrine_s]

Yeah i think things like screens work if you can make it suit your needs. But often they are shipped with limited functionality or software to suit it to your needs. Making you have to do it from scratch anyways to make it do what you'd want. I think the true shine of gimmicks is it gives uniqueness and something for people to latch on to it. It may be a negative or positive thing or something that vets feel dilutes the hobby but none the less it brings people to the space. And in my experience said people attracted by shinnies tend to then refine towards higher quality stuff later on given time, improving the more high end stuff in the long run.

[@marounboumelhem3984]

Vid on mammoth?

[@bow3i]

I SWEAR IT WAS A SHORT ON ONE KEY I FOUND AND FIXED THE SWITCH ISSUE TRUST ME

[@xthetenth]

It's so weird to me that moondrop made a keyboard with a gimmick that it's got a DAC in it and they made a really pretty good seeming keyboard that's got a dac in it in the most half-hearted way. If it had some volume/levels controls that'd be amazing and a really cool to have thing for a clean desk with good audio controls. It's a neat thing rather than a real awesome thing because of that. Like do you want upgraded dac and a specific mechanical keyboard? If so cool. But it's not what it could be. Fingerprint sensors to me are good, I got a windows hello camera for my desktop because I like the fast easy login. A fingerprint sensor would be a really cool thing for me if I didn't already have that though.

[@ShikayHawken]

Fingerprint on keyboard is just gimmick. Like, what use case you're gonna use it? On phone I can understand cause a lot of it is used for ease of access on the device itself. On keyboard? If you plug it to a PC or laptop or whatever it is that you can put it on doesn't have anything to utilize it, it became useless. And even if the device has it, it's either already have its own because they were designed with it for portable use like phone or completely stationary for public use like attendance logger thing. Knob is a feature unless you're using a knob from RK H81... which just switch connectivity... As for DAC, withthe way moondrop design their first keyboard, it's a half feature cause it's nice to plug your IEM or headphone directly on your keyboard. But without volume slider/knob, you're doomed to change the volume by pressing function key, borrowing someone else's knob, or not change it at all cause you're too lazy to change the volume until some ear**** hit your ears you instantly throw away your headphone. Btw, nice looking keyboard if ut actually works.

[@z4k1_zaki65]

People with windows computer can set it up for their logins…..

[@marounboumelhem3984]

Yes

[@twingolord]

knobs are the best feature

[@_ExTitus]

for funny keyboard features solenoid > oled > knob > other random stuff

[@z4k1_zaki65]

The price of the Moondrop keyboard is about $300, the dac itself around $160-180. So a $120 prebuilt that sounds decent, what should you be complaining about? It’s better than most big brands prebuilt like Drops….. At this point you GUYS are just GATEKEEPING the entire hobby, let’s people be creative!

[@drmagikal]

i feel personally attacked