Others have pointed it already, but I'd also like voice my thoughts on this because I'm very concerned that people are getting themselves into something not knowing what they should properly be expecting.
I really,
really,
REALLY suggest you make the disclaimers around the Membrane kit more prominent. While I like the idea of the Membrane kit a lot, if the execution ends up going
anything like it did when MiTo tried it for Laserwave, there is going to be a lot of backlash. IMO it would be dishonest and unethical not to warn people about how the Membrane kit may potentially come out. MiTo significantly overpromised and underdelivered and Drop was at significant fault for not providing sufficient disclaimers on the product. There are even fewer disclaimers on this than there were on Laserwave, which I find extremely concerning.
The transparent Laserwave caps had a slew of problems with their production, namely that the plastic was fused in a way customers did not expect nor were given proper expectation for. MiTo and Drop provided insufficient warning as well as zero expectation of how it would differ from renders outside of a few cherry-picked samples. The image below displays the fusing really well:
Unless you can promise in writing that the Membrane kit will not have these same issues, you MUST put a more substantial disclaimer in this thread
and on the group buy pages than just a single
tiny blurb in the corner of
a single image that just says "the visible inner structure of the keycaps may differ slightly in the final product." Nowhere else in the entire group buy or description is this mentioned outside of comments in this thread from other people that personally experienced what happened with Laserwave.
This disclaimer insufficiently describes the gravity of the sort of discrepancy that is likely to occur in the final production, and still needs to be significantly more visible. I am positive there are a significant number of people that are going to join this group buy (a) not seeing the disclaimer due do how small and unprominent it is (i had to blow up the image 2x times to be able to read it) and (b) not knowing the history of the design when it was attempted with Laserwave. They are going to be extremely disappointed and are going to blame you for the problem.
I strongly suggest adding more sufficient disclaimers about how the membrane kit may come out (potentially including references to Laserwave). It would be extremely dishonest and unkind to do what MiTo did, which was basically just say "lol you idiots didn't read, not my fault" when the disclaimers were totally insufficient and samples were cherry-picked to only show really good examples that were unrepresentative of the actual product upon production.
I'm sure many people will be happy with them even if they come out like Laserwave did, but there are also many people that won't. You lose nothing providing better disclaimers. IMO leaving things as is would be poor practice and an insult to the community.
We have all the history necessary to avoid these mistakes, please don't repeat them.
