I think its great that programmable keyboards allow users to create whatever layout floats their boats.
I wish more people shared that sentiment. People on r/MechanicalKeyboards will look at a 40% posted and put 0 seconds of thought in before commenting something like “I can’t use this, so it must be unusable. You’re stupid”.
One of the reasons that the hobby is so awesome is that there are about a billion different keyboards with different layouts for pretty much every type of person and use case.
This one of the many reasons why I only use r/MechanicalKeyboards for window shopping while I'm on the train. The _true_ unpopular keyboard opinion here: long-form content on GH encourages proper engagement; Reddit just can't compete. Geekhack might be losing steam over a long, long window, but it will always be the best place to discuss keyboards IMO. (typed on a 'literally unusable' 40%)
r/mk is basically just people showing what they got, which is not even a bad thing, but the mechanical keyboards subreddit really should have more proper discussion.
I think a big factor is reddit and karma and upvotes, which incentivizes people to post things to get more meaningless points, which means that actual discussion is less incentivizes than drama and pics because it doesn't give as many upvotes.
That's why social media with like systems is kinda flawed for discussion. Just my 2 cents though.