First off TJ, I'm going to say you got handed a **** job. I respect you for undertaking it. That said, there are still responsibilities associated with handling it and things that could have been done throughout.
So I need to make an update when I have nothing to update, but not a bull**** update?
A not bull**** update would be status of packaging, assembly for those who went plateless, pictures, or any other thing to let people know that there has been some sort of progress. People have been asking for months about where things stand. People have also asked about paying additional shipping to have their stabs shipped later or even forfeiting the money they paid for the stabs and just having their PCB and plate shipped out. Those requests got brushed off or ignored. When stabs arrived, there could have been an update. There are many things that could have been done to help the disenfranchised instead of bull**** updates that don't help people know the status of anything. If people were kept apprised of the status and if concerns were listened to, people wouldn't be so upset with how this has been handled.
I mentioned sprit because he practically went AWOL for a while with that cluster****, but he has been forthcoming and communicative, letting people know where things stand. He recovered it from the precipice. That's all we're asking you to do.
I got stabs a couple days after lysol said he mailed them to me. Considering a few other factors that aren't anyone's problem here, I didn't feel the need to tell you that "yep, lysol did ship me stab bars". Especially since I didn't have anything new to say otherwise. I don't have a timeline because I'm busy and have no clue how long the steps I need to take will take because this level and complexity of fulfillment is completely foreign to me.
The emboldened part has been the problem throughout this whole buy. Openness and communication are how you keep a restless group placated. If there are eruptions brewing, it's because you "didn't feel the need" to communicate anything with people. It would have been nice to hear that the stabs arrived.
And since you have no clue about the steps, have you actually done anything at all yet or is everything still sitting in unsorted piles? That's another update you can give. I know people would have gladly helped, and probably would still gladly help, you with sorting and organizing people's orders and prepping them from stabs.
Keycap buys are not gh60 buys. I have learned this from trying to get my **** together and packed. This is like if you had to not only organize every cap order for dolch out of 102 different unlabeled bags while letting people decide what profile they want each keyrow to be. Even when I had to hand sort CCnG, it wasn't this complex. And I'm not even talking about the build orders, which will, and have always been planned to, go out last.
That sounds exactly like the logistics of my UV Printed GB. Each cap was a different profile, a different color, and a different design. It was a massive PITA to do, sort, and ship but I shipped all the correct orders done in a weekend and resolved the mistakes as I ran into them. You just have to put your head down, set deadlines or goals for yourself while breaking down into smaller chunks, and you can get it done in a reasonable time frame.
Like I said, I respect the work you're doing, but this has all been about a total breakdown of communication which feels disrespectful to me as someone who invested in this.
