What is SpaceFN and why you should give it a try
The SpaceFN concept - setting up your space key as a layer switch when held - is probably one of the most useful tweaks in the keyboard hobby. Let me explain how it works. My SpaceFN article on kbd.news made some rounds recently - quite surprisingly given the age of this concept. This piece you're reading is a condensed version of the full post. If you're left with unanswered questions, you'll most likely find the info you're looking for in the original write-up. On my imaginary top list of the most useful keyboard features, tweaks and hacks, SpaceFN would deserve a podium finish for sure. But what makes it so special? In short: SpaceFN is easy to implement, easy to learn, costs nothing, can be used with any keyboard, and can improve your productivity instantly. I will list its benefits below, but can state right at this point that the SpaceFN concept, setting up your space key as a layer switch when held, is clearly one of the most useful tweaks in the keyboard hobby....
Apr 30, 2024
Just to clarify something for people- wholesale/manufacturers aren't in the business of providing customer service (for the most part). Generally they're in the business of making cool stuff, and then selling it (by the hundreds) to a handful of distributor/etc so that they don't have to deal with "customers".
For us, it's a delicate dance to submit our order, pay them, and then "ask, but don't seem pushy" about when they're going to ship our product. Trust me, if we push to hard, the result is very negative (they just ship to other distributors and give us our money back).
This is in no way directly related to KBT, this is a generalization of the wholesale market that we deal in.
So, we do try to send a friendly call here-and-there to find out how things are going, and try to get information. For the KBT's, this is the first time these are ever being produced/built, and reading between the lines, things don't seem to be going as smoothly for them as they initially expected (otherwise we'd have the keyboards by now). We're still on order with them, and we're still expecting to get the first batch of these ever made, but unfortunately it's taking longer than they (or we, or you) want.
I'd love to give you guys more updates, but for now it's still just a waiting game. It's not a great answer, but implicitly, when we don't update you, it's because there's no 'new' information available. The second we hear something exciting to share with you, we get on the comments and shout it out at the top of our lungs! :) That being said, I'll try to remember to give you guys updates now and then that nothing new has happened.
Okay, this was a really long post with probably TMI. But it should be cover us for a good week or so worth of updates right? ;)