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Weeb
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Jun 21, 2020
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Why have you still not done south facing switches designed PCB? That is literally how cherry mx style switches were meant to be facing and designed. North facing switches (your Drop keyboards) sound and feel scratchier and higher pitched compared to the standard south facing switches which is how pretty much all actual DECENT prebuilt keyboards on the market has. This just speaks lack of any thought behind this terrible design, you can see north facing switches like these in a lot of cheap $20 mechanical keyboards on amazon and they are absolutely garbage.
A lot of new mechanical keyboard users probably won't even notice because these Drop keyboards are their first mechanical keyboard and they think it's the best thing ever but it is not. Someone like me who has gone through many different RGB gamer, cheap Amazon boards, before I got to higher end expensive customs will know that the difference in feel/sound between north vs south facing switches is night and day, at least with cherry profile-like keycaps.
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Maxximum
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Jun 21, 2020
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WeebI would agree with you what south facing is better but they obviously wanted it this way because they wanted shine through keycaps. They could have totally made the keycaps non backlit and just had the switch led's be underglow which I think would make it more popular with the mechanical keyboard community but I do not think this is what the board is aimed at.
Weeb
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Jun 23, 2020
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This video should demonstrate it pretty well, you can tell that the north facing sounds higher pitched compared to the more whole rounded clack sound of the south facing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFySgr0xmPw
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