2y ago

ZSA Voyager arrived yesterday!

Anyone else have one? I've been loving it so far! Feels great!

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I guess my main question would be whether it makes sense to get this over any of the DIY (or other) flat low-profile QMK keyboards out there?
From what I remember, the price is somewhat steep on these things? That much steeper than putting together your own?
- Depends on if you are willing to assemble the keyboard yourself or want something consumer ready I guess
  
  Yep. THere's also how picky you want to be with the layout. For instance, I really would prefer a lower pinky-finger column than was provided on the Voyager and many other keyboards, whereas something like the Kyria is much more likely to be comfortable for me on that front.
I'm interested in it because the tripod kit has quick magnetic attach/detach, unlike the Moonlander's. I'd want to mount it to the arms of my chair.
The only two things holding me back right now are the missing two columns of keys in the middle and the cost.
Unless I go DIY again, this will be my next one.
Such an exact setup is difficult to come by on the market.
The Iris might be my closest option.
How do you like it?
- I really like it. Took no time at all to get used to, though I have been using a moon lander for about a year. Its nice and solid, doesn't slide around.
  
  Great to hear!
  What about the slanting feet, are the boards still stable with those? (have you tried them?)
Nice!
Is there a mechanical keyboard sub that posts more normal keyboards? Is there really such a large group here that doesn't use mice?
- what make you think that split keyboard means no mouse?
  
  Because I'm ignorant.
- I've always assumed most of us split keyboard users still used mice...?
  
  I doubt they dropped the mouse, I think the comment is misunderstanding how dactylo works, your hand is not staying on the mouse if you need to type something
  
  I’ve used a split keyboard for a few years now and wish I could drop the mouse. But using mouse keys on QMK is just not as fluid as using a mouse.
  
  MX ergo, just not in the pic :)
- I have one of these split keyboards and still use a mouse. I’d like to use it less, but haven’t found any great alternatives to fully remove it.
  
  It seems like it would be really awkward to use one-handed. I know for gaming you wouldn't exactly need the right-hand side, but still.
- This is the biggest keyboard community in the Fediverse right now (but still very small). You can influence it a lot by just posting what you want to see. Boards you have, questions you have, GBs or whatever.
  
  Sure, but I'm a lurker. That's why I asked if there was a community that has "regular keyboard" posts that have decent discussion instead? Not here to change the sub, it just seems the most appropriate place to find a relevant community.
- It seems not, and I've been thinking that if this doesn't change soon I'll have to start that community myself. The problem is that during the "building it and waiting for them to come" stage I'd need to contribute to the community to encourage others to do the same, and my only contributions would be stuff like "I really wanted to try the MKC75 and I kept putting it in my cart and I did buy the keycaps that I thought would look really nice with the e-pink but then the board itself sold out and I feel like an idiot". Would you guys be into that or...?
  
  Instead of creating a new community why not posting "normal" keyboard here?
  People are posting those keyboard because they are using it, maybe it means that there's not much people here that don't, if you can't find any post, and I doubt that you would find people by splitting the community

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