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Ergodox keyboards
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2019–2022), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Ergodox keyboards, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Steep learning curve: must relearn which finger types each key2022-09-08
- Small thumb keys are hard to hit, making it easy to press the wrong one2022-02-28
- Rarely used functions require remembering navigation to hard-to-reach layers, and keys are missing2021-06-08
- Switching from staggered to ortholinear layout was a struggle to adapt to2019-12-16
- Thumb cluster's four small keys are difficult to reach2019-07-18