I donāt post content super often, and I only have a handful of keyboard videos, but I just made a playlist called ākeebā and put all my keyboard-related videos in there to make them easier to find. Mostly some 10fastfingers typing tests. Iām pretty confident in my speed, but the video quality isnāt the greatest.
Also, I just went and replied to a bunch of other threads because it wouldnāt let me post links yet. Hopefully this works this timeā¦
My channel, only thing I post there is my typing on a keyboard There are a few new ones planned, rebulid the Canoe and Kmini and also have new Iris build planned.
Instagram is great; my feed is nothing but pretty pictures and keyboards, and pretty pictures of keyboards. I didnāt really get it at first but itās quickly becoming my favorite social media app.
Thanks for doing this! I have a YT, twitter, reddit, and Twitch account. I sometimes stream on YT or Twitch, and usually announce it on /r/mk, its discord, and on Twitter. I have been meaning to fill out the videos Iāve posted to YT and finish off the one series, but I have not found the time yet. (read: Iām lazy and itās time consuming to edit and encode my streams from raw footage.)
I know I might sound like a bit of a broken record on this one because I made the same suggestion for personal collections, but if you could just populate those types of things in your personal profile they could be linked elsewhere at will and not require users to search for a specific thread to find someoneās social media/etc. It would lessen clutter clutter from redundant threads on the same topic, and in the case of ākeyboard collectionsā it could support tracking and verifying sales through the market. I feel like it would be a great way to streamline things as well as offer something new.
Thatās a good idea to do too, but I imagine itāll be easier for some to either tag this post and come back or be able to search for it.
Iāll also be posting the links whenever I have a thread on streaming or something, so itāll always be there too.
Iām not sure what you mean by ākeyboard collectionsā for sales and stuff like that. Tracking and verifying sales should be done through the market, IMO. Unless youāre talking about heatware or something like that.
I only have an Instagram channel for my keyboard stuff so far but if you like pretty pictures of keyboards and artisans it might be worth a look for you
Yeah, just kinda making suggestions since things are still in the early stages here. Definitely a good idea to have a thread like this that can be bookmarked or stickied so at least theres something, but heres kinda what I was thinking:
We have personal profiles on here for some reason or another, and theyāre really most valuable as a place to store information that is specific to us, as individuals within the community. That would support a couple of different things that could be helpful to the type of interactions we have in the hobby.
First, In the case of social media accounts, we could link those things to our profiles and have them stay connected to the user in that way. it would help keep things clean because there wouldnāt need to be unorganized threads to store it (i.e. a thread for insta, snapchat, reddit, and whatever new ones show up eventually), so people would always know where to look for info like that if it was being shared. It would also help for verification purposes.
Secondly, in the case of the market thing I said, it came as a response to the various show and tell threads, and the notion of consolidating stuff like that too. If we were able to set up an āinventoryā within our profiles, we could populate it with our personal collections (whether they be keyboards, artisans, etc.) I know itās somewhat of a grand idea, but something like that would almost create a system of giving items having a trackable history of ownership as well. I know in the case of older and replicated artisans, a trade/sale history to track legitimacy can be super helpful.
Iām sure thereās holes to be found in my idea, but again, with this forum being as new as it is, I figured I might try my hand at making constructive suggestions.
I agree with putting the info on our profiles. Iāve actually already done it myself. It is a good idea, and Iām sure most will be doing it. But I think itās also a good idea to have threads like this occasionally. Just to have the info all in one place. Maybe you donāt remember the personās name or account, but you can search for keywords that you remember from what they said they do. I think both are valid, and maybe the thread needs to be limited or stickied or something, but I think it can be helpful.
As for the āinventoryā I see what youāre saying and I think Iām on a similar page as the info for the social media thread. Itās definitely good to have something like that on your profile, but I for one am not going to go through someoneās profile just to look at pics of their board. I would much rather scroll through a huge thread of pictures to find one Iām looking for or just window shop or see how people configure their boards. If I remember that user XXYY had a certain board though, it would be easier to go the their profile and click the ācollection linkā Unless we get signatures like on GH where we can leave links at the bottom of all our posts.
TL;DR: I think both threads and links on your profiles for both social media and keyboards have their uses and they shouldnāt be mutually exclusive. Otherwise, I agree with you, theyāre both good ideas.
I definitely like the idea of having threads for those things and not having those potential features be mutually exclusive because it does allow for a centralized spot for things. I kinda imagined that by being able to link profile information like that to threads, it can still be found somewhere like a specific post, but in essence is tied to your profile first and doesnāt require the thread for it to exist. I might be overthinking it, or underthinking possible limitations though.
Instagram. Most of what my āreddit timeā is now spent here. Basically, Iāve got the content that RMK used to have (more or less) without the shitty memes.