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Hey everyone, Hoffman here to answer some questions about DCX. Many of you have seen me around Drop and/or various forums and discord servers - but in case you don’t know me, I’ve been active in the community for the last 10 years or so, and have been a moderator on geekhack and reddit for a good chunk of that time. A few weeks ago, I joined Drop to run the community side of things, and now I have the chance to host a little Q&A session and talk about the new DCX keycaps that we’re launching today.  I do have one of these sets in front of me right now, and would be happy to take any photos y’all might want to see, answer any questions, etc - pretty much anything related to DCX. Let me know what you want to know!  I will be back at 1pm PDT (3pm CDT) to answer any questions for a few hours, and will continue to monitor the thread going forward if you miss that specific window. :)
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kimia.salamo9881
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Jun 25, 2022
Thank you for the explanation.
phillip11
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May 10, 2022
Do these keycaps still have the north facing LED issue, like the cherry profile caps?
phillip11I answered that here - TLDR, the situation is improved but may not be completely resolved to everyone's liking. YMMV and if it's a concern you'll probably want to wait for some more consensus among the community as to how they perform on a wider variety of north-facing switches.
phillip11
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May 10, 2022
Len11
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May 1, 2022
Why not use a brighter color for one of the key sets? it would make the overlapping profile views so much easier to perceive.
byungyoonc
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Apr 28, 2022
Will we get any Ortho/40's compatibility for the future products of DCX?
elmobert
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Apr 27, 2022
Can we get a closer pic on the modifier keys?
oogtug
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Apr 28, 2022
Shif t vs Shift. Can we get any assurance these sort of common legending issues we normally see with DMK will be resolved with production sets? This is pretty obvious and well-known QC issue from certain manus, sad to see it on DCX.
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Not a fan of the DCX spacing and typeface weight. It seems quite thin.
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Can we get a picture of the thickness / underside compared to GMK ?
Kevin
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Apr 29, 2022
This photo is deceptively good. There is a Sprue on the bottom edge of the outer shell that you can see with the right lighting conditions. It’s very well hidden in this photo!!
Woah. The underside of the DCX cap (left side) is so clean
bobalover
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Apr 27, 2022
I see that you've mentioned "strong shine resistance" in Overview introduction. Given that DCX is ABS which is notoriously known to develop strong shine vs PBT, I'm wondering how this shine resistance is actually added and how it's been tested to verify that it actually is a significant improvement compared to GMK.
Kevin
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Apr 27, 2022
bobaloverShine is based on many factors and not all ABS plastics are the same because you can change the proportions of compounds to get different desirable properties. There is "good" ABS resins that shine less, and "bad" ABS resins that shine more. DCX is using the same resin that we use in MT3 ABS. If you read the thousands of reviews on MT3 Doubleshot ABS, there is hardly any mention at all of "this shines too quickly" etc. Whether this shines faster or slower than a GMK keycap is based on many factors, your individual body chemistry being an obviously unique one of them (oils, temperature, typing style, etc). We know these shine slowly, it's up for individuals to quantify and test whether that is an improvement or not against their other keycaps.
bobalover
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Apr 27, 2022
KevinKnowing that it's the same resin as MT3 ABS is a good thing to know as that's a readily available known quantity/quality. Cheers for the quick answer!
I know that everyone has been dying to see this (took us long enough, amirite), and I took some halfway decent side profile shots to compare DCX to the ever-so-popular Cherry/GMK profile. Spoiler alert: differences are subtle, and most noticeable in rows 2 & 3. DCX is slightly lower, particular at the front of the caps (can be seen in the front profile shot too). Rows 1-1 (DCX front, GMK back)
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Rows 2-3 (DCX front, GMK back)
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Rows 4-4 (DCX front, GMK back)
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Entire profile, offset
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Front profile
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Sorry, probably should have specified that. The GMK set is Dolch, so you're looking at the lighter grey alphas from a Dolch set. Comparing DCX WoB to Cherry WoB, the blacks are much closer as expected. DCX Left, Cherry Right
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Availability and price for the most part. But also ABS blend to reduce shine (will still shine, I have plenty shiny MT3 ABS sets). Manufacturing process reduce external blemishes from spur marks. Perhaps overall thicker, they look to have more double-shot material than GMK.
bdlcsmn
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Apr 27, 2022
Really looking forward to this. Hope you will release more colorways too! Would you be able to share a side by side comparison of the DCX vs GMK? Interested to see the thickness as well.
bdlcsmnSide by side comparison shots are finally shared :) Good point about the thickness, I'll post a quick pic (probably tomorrow).
bdlcsmn
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Apr 27, 2022
HoffmanMysterSweet! Thank you!
ajustinjames
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Apr 26, 2022
Could you describe the texture? Is it slick, or does it have a texture similar to gmk? Thanks!
ajustinjamesVery similar to GMK. It is different, but you'd need to inspect it very closely to see.
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