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People now do not talk about keyboards ?

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BucklingSpring:

--- Quote from: xuanwumen on Tue, 02 December 2025, 02:53:42 ---HI,I'm a keyboard vendor and not sure if i get it right that it seems keyboard discussions are not hot for now.
I had a look at the vendor section and there is almost no new posts.
Is sales post banned here? Or those vendors disappear too ?
Even one moderator is shown last active in months ago..
Where do all the guys go ...

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I used to spend more time here then any other forums. Then my interests moved to something else. I came back a week ago after many years absence.
Like you I was sad to see how dead this once flourishing place has become :-(

zslane:
I suspect that most people who entered the hobby got what they wanted from it and moved on. What mostly remains are the real hardcore builders and they don't have a whole lot to talk about anymore, apparently. Or if they do, they talk about it elsewhere (Discord maybe?). I got into this ten years ago because I was fascinated by custom keycaps more than anything else, but now the iconic designers are gone. I guess every hobby has a natural life cycle, and none last forever, especially technology-based ones since technology changes so fast.

goodnaruk:
I posed a similar question on reddit, I thought it odd that the entire hobby is about keyboards, yet it seems people don't use said keyboards to talk/type about them nearly as often as one would think. Heck, I actively seek out excuses to test out a new build and frequent general question threads just to put some miles on the keys.

Long story short, most of the respondents on reddit suggested to peruse discord servers and you will find them more active, but I do agree that overall interaction is seemingly low, especially amongst the higher end enthusiasts.

If you wanna talk aula/neo/wooting/RK/ entry level or mass produced boards theres definitely an audience, but the higher the tier of custom/artisan boards you climb the quieter it gets.
 

nescio:
I am just in the market for a keyboard now, but that doesn't mean it's my hobby. I also think that anything that starts as a hobby, becomes a business when you get good at it to the point that other people also want to have the same keyboard as you made for yourself as a hobby.

It seems like the market has expanded a lot in the past decade or so, because previously I had to import one. It's just unfortunate that the market apparently wants a circus on their desktop.

Adrian Hale:
Activity definitely comes in waves. Things have been quieter lately, but nothing seems to be banned - there are just fewer new builds and vendor posts than before. A lot of the community has moved to Discord and Reddit, so forums aren’t as busy as they used to be. Still a good number of people around, though!

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