I'm building a keyboard. It seems that all pictures I see show people mounting their Cherry MX switches with the 2 terminals towards the top, so the long side of the stem is horizontal. Mine's going to be hand-wired (no PCB), with staggered columns, so it's easier to put the diodes on the columns than the rows.
So my question is this - is there any reason why the switches couldn't be mounted rotated 90 degrees, so the long side of the stem is vertical? It would make the pin location much more convenient for placing the diodes in my design.