Lalaland124 You're not missing much. M is cheaper, available-er, and better-er than F.
/hot take
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The one in the pic is an M, I think I have an F122 or two someplace too though. I used to not even consider M feel was on par with F's but these days.. Dare I say it, I enjoy the dash of rubbery feel added to the mech feel versus the F. Also the increased force required isn't a negative to me. May be losing the finesse in my fingers.
Hello, another Deskthority refugee? visitor? I dunno which. Currently taking a break from buckling spring world with a Northgate Ominkey. I actually have one of their desktop 386SX systems from 1990 too!
I also came here from Deskthority (I'm Stratokaster there in case you're wondering).
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Darkshado checking in! Love the new logo, looking forward to catching up with everyone here.
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This decade spanning necro on DT really made me think. Back then, Deskthority was the plucky young breakaway, its users mostly fleeing Geekhack.
11 years later: both DT and GH are still running, for the most part. And Cherry still makes MX Clears. 
Even spam bot is right twice a day.
Hello all! Wasn't a long time member of DT but decided to join here since the exodus seems to be getting quite real over there. Seems pretty smooth and responsive here so far, only hiccup was that the entered username gets force lower cased during signup even if you enter mixed case, but saw the workaround by editing in the profile post creation
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It’s not so much an exodus yet as a collective sense something ominous may soon unfold. An absentee site owner is not good. And no mods? Come on!
So, uh, what happens here in 10+ years when someone offers Redmaus a comely, pink Lambo? Webwit was a solid admin for many years there, and made his intentions to move on explicitly clear when he launched DT Club, back whichever year that was. We didn’t exactly meet the challenge, and eventually he sold out. You can see the same fate for any forum, left in private hands. We come to these places for the community, yet the community can get locked out, as I fear is underway at DT.
Mu I'm mostly worried about the wiki and all the discoveries that are hidden in old threads. Loosing all the work people put in identifying switch types/boards, coming up with timelines, contacting old manufacturers etc. - I hope we can find a way to secure this information in case the servers do go down.
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I've heard people talk about backing up the entire DT Wiki. There's some (very Wikipedia…) bickering about image rights and such, but, technologically wikis do seem to be more backup friendly than forums.
The Great Finds thread, Matteo's projects, Soarer's, Hasu's, classic group buys and the like are not as obviously saveable. I've found a spot of bit-rot throughout the DT forum, a problem going back many years (to at least Matteo's user interface transition), but searching for examples just now keeps on turning up black holes on GH! They definitely lost a lot more over the years than we did.
Here's a DT example: try following the link in my 2016 post here. I made a restoration/photo thread for the German layout beamspring I bought from the Rustmeister a year or two before that, but it was all gone. Similar story for some of the DT Awards photo contests. I recall using Archive.org to dig up those pics when they came to mind to post again. But that's a very manual process, mostly done by my own memory of where things once were. Not exactly the open web!
I'm working on it as well - though this will take quite some time. The problem is that a lot of discoveries weren't updated in the wiki, so in the best case I take a snapshot of the entire forum + wiki and save it locally. Let's just hope that 404 isn't coming at all/too soon.
You talking a full local clone using like wget by any chance? I like it!
Yep exactly, will take some time though ;-)
Mu That would be a moment of privilege