I received my F77 "New Model F" Keyboard at the end of last year, and I'm using it regularly. I ordered it in July of 2017, over 4 years before! Even back then

I received my F77 "New Model F" Keyboard at the end of last year, and I'm using it regularly. I ordered it in July of 2017, over 4 years before! Even back then there was a fake order "deadline" being updated every single month, and I agree that is the dumbest part of this project. I think it's a way of saying "I can't promise I won't raise prices from pre-order to retail level at the end of the month" but yeah it's still really dumb, especially over years. But I knew the nature of the project before I ordered. It isn't for everyone, truly not a mass-market product. It's like $400 total, and you may still have some manual tweaking to do (e.g. I had to adjust my spacebar stabilizer wire). Also, I didn't really mind many of the delays due to relatively fanatical part/supply/manufacture quality control. All the info about the nature, history, and timelines of the project are publicly available, you just need to dig through years of updates and deskthority forum posts yourself, it's a bit scattered. One other note, the firmware situation is also a bit scattered, not particularly well organized and summarized quite yet (and weird paragraph/list formatting and broken links on the official website) but I was able to find what I wanted to customize and build firmware just to my liking. FWIW I'm happy with my F77 compact.