What's funny is that the Mechanical Keyboard one is sort of a refugee from another set of communities. And much of the knowledge also exists on the other commu

What's funny is that the Mechanical Keyboard one is sort of a refugee from another set of communities. And much of the knowledge also exists on the other communities. If you go back to the early 2010s, there was Geekhack. Back then, the hobby was much smaller and you had a lot of stuff done with Model Ms (the default "good keyboard", walkthroughs on how to order the few mechanical boards available from Japan or Taiwan, and the beginnings of group-buy culture. Deskthority emerged a few years later, and developed a bit of its own voice-- more of an EU audience, and these days more oriented around vintage keyboards than new stuff. Their wiki is still probably the deepest resource for some vintage switches and boards. Meanwhile, there was a weird figure who was fairly large on both communities: "ripster"-- while incredibly knowledgable, a lot of people found his presence chafing. He eventually took the reins of /r/mk and faded away from the other communities.