Certainly, could be the base, could be the coloring, could be lots of stuff with the plastic itself. I'm just amazed how people jump to the conclusion that would have cost GMK money.



I understand that for many people GMK represents a large sum of your invested money and that it is completely natural to feel emotional when talking about it, but please refrain from blowing anything here out of proportion.Nobody is trying to instill the fear that GMK will cease to make good products. However, regardless of how great things are, mechanical keyboard users will typically investigate potential doubts and effective solutions or alternatives. That's what gets us out of rubber dome land in the first place.This thread is here to, not to defend or attack GMK and the quality of its products. That would be an opinion/debate/discussion thread separate from this one.This thread exists to bring light (no pun intended) to recent observations of the light leaking issue. It's purely an aesthetic issue, so it is not particularly interesting to those that do not use backlight. It may be urgent to some and meaningless to others. That's fine, but that is also a debate that deserves a separate thread.GMK is a for-profit company. I don't think its unreasonable to speculate that recent changes in products may be the result of a business strategy. Most intentional changes in a for-profit company are for just that; profit.On the other hand, we have no idea whether or not this change was intentional. I also agree with what CPTBadAss said: suppliers can change or the supply itself can demonstrate variance. If this is the case, then its likely that GMK may not even be aware that this change ever occurred, leaving the investigation to us, and thus giving more purpose to this thread.My point is, be it intentional or unintentional, for profit or not for profit, backlight user or not, painted underside keycaps or not, the issue exists and mechanical keyboard users canfrom it gaining recognition and investigation.The charred orange / skidata pictures in this thread clearly show that a change was made resulting in GMK keycaps becoming more translucent. I believe that if we gather more "hard evidence" we can 1) make better educated guesses in what happened in case we do not get an answer from GMK and 2) help GMK recognize the issue and give them information they need to address it.This thread is not here to crucify GMK, it is only here to help centralize the information regarding this matter and potentially related manufacturing irregularities.