i guess i have no feedback, which makes me interested in the set
Thank you! I appreciate that
Doesn't feel very community friendly when your interest check looks like a blatant ad.
You do have a point here, and I will admit it is primarily an ad as there are already plans to run the set. On the other hand it's far from the first set to feel or do so, and one of the primary pieces of 'feedback' on ICs that aren't fully fleshed out tends to be some copy pasta or other meme level remark about effort. The more baked something is, the less flexible it becomes.
novelkeys and designers are rapidly separating themselves from involvement in the community when it comes to the product they're trying to sell them.
i'd like to see them still caring about the communities that propped them up rather than showing us pictures and expecting people to buy without any possibility changes.
1: hobbyists won't have any input pretty soon and will simply have to choose whether to buy or not, which i don't believe benefits members of the hobby or novelkeys/vendors as reach becomes limited.
I can't help but feel a bit of targeted bite in there. Or maybe bait, I can't tell. We care a great deal about the community, it's input, and especially when it comes to products to sell. We wouldn't be where we are without it, and I feel like we've done a great deal over the past year to prove that our investment in this community is as strong as it ever has been.
On products, if I wanted to show pretty pictures without possible changes and just list the set, I'd do it and be done. A set also shouldn't be "the community gets everything they want or the designer doesn't care". There is a middle-ground here, and that's where I believe the modern Interest Check lives.
Feedback asking for triple-shot on a planned (and stated as so) GMK set is outside the realm of possibility, as they don't have the means to produce it. BUT someone saying "I appreciate the inclusion of a Menu key. Any chance on including a 1u Menu also?" THIS is doable, I hadn't thought anybody cared about the inclusion of Menu enough to comment, and adding a 1u here is VERY doable. That's the type of feedback that changes a product before it goes on offer, and the type i've always been receptive to.
My experience in doing these is that the majority of large feedback items rarely come from
actually interested parties, and comes from people feeling a need to point out a lack of something just for the sake of it. People that genuinely enjoy the product for what it is might want a few layout caps, or inquire about a legend adjustment.
i would have liked to see at least a form for people to fill out rather than leaving comments here that likely won't amount to anything
I prefer an open discussion here. Forms create blind feedback, that
in my opinion doesn't transfer to actual behavior when the rubber hits the road. "Will you buy Yes/No", "Which do you prefer", etc. Past forms i've done have resulted in a lot of un-invested people filling them out because its easy, and served as a place for them to further berate over some exclusion that invariably has to happen at some point. Its a lot of noise that clogs up and drowns out the ones that are actually interested, and enough so to state something that can be viewed by all. I believe it encourages more of that community interaction rather than just aggregating data in an excel doc.
you don't have to like it, but everyone does it differently, and that's
actually ok.
a little disclaimer isn't enough, and you even made it so small like awful radio ads who talk so fast. cmon...
This was done for tongue-in-cheek humor at some of the more ridiculous 'pie in the sky' types of feedback i've seen in the past that aren't realistically possible. Not for an attempt to trap somebody with some sort of 'gotcha'. I'd thought the language used helped get that across, but I see it missed its mark. Apologies for the offense there.
