I’m trying to find mechanical keyboards that are not black/grey, are standard or TKL, and are hotswappable. I have yet to find a site that allows you to sort by all three chritiria, nonetheless sort though multiple brands/sites. Has anyone made a site along these lines?

Edit: like what pcpartpicker offers for most other computer parts

Edit 2: Keeb-finder is what I was looking for. Its support for non-American stuff isn’t great, but its better than nothing.

  • Lasherz@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    The amount of obsessive culture around mechanical keyboards has created a boon of great side by side comparison youtube channels. Hipyo Tech is one of the most obsessive that I’ve seen.

    I personally found myself going crazy with information and decided to go to Best Buy and just try some floor models. I never would have chosen Steelseries Apex pro and Logi g915 clicky as my favorites online, but they stood out dramatically in the side by side. Once you narrow down your switch type, it’s easy to find compatible hotswappable platforms. I like Keychrons personally, but there’s many options, especially for TKL

    Something to keep in mind and something I learned from Hipyo Tech is that you can dramatically change the noise characteristics with minor modifications to the body of the keyboard and so you shouldn’t necessarily chase perfection at the purchasing stage.

    • PlzGivHugsOPEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      At this point, I’m mostly just trying to figure out what my options are. Trying to search Mechanical Keyboards dot com just burries me in results with no meaningful way to filter them. PcPartPicker is slightly better, but lacks most of the dedicated keyboard brands. The only site I’d found that offered thorough filters was Memoey Express, although their selection was also very limited. The other comment suggesting Keeb-Finder was pretty much exactly what I was looking for (although a lot of the results aren’t available in Canada, but its still far better).

      • Lasherz@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        I believe for the best side by sides you’d want something like rtings.com, they’re most known for monitors but have good neutral data about mechanical keyboards too.