30 Dec 2012, 04:16

I edited the post? Really? I can't tell if this is a The Witches-style trick to make me think I've gone senile, or whether I really am going senile. (I think the latter is true regardless, honestly. That, or I have a memory worm loose in here. I do vividly remember walking around some sale somewhere, years ago, wondering why I can feel something in my hand, then realising that I'd actually walked off with a book from someone's stall that I'd been looking at, without even realising what I'd done. I quickly, quietly returned it (I didn't want it anyway), although for all I know, I actually did pay for it, and then handed it back.)



Sadly, in this case, it appears unlikely. It's post 90963, and Firefox assures me that I never had "90963" (in the edit URL) in the address bar. I think you have another post in mind, where I probably did write "Alps-compatible", earlier.



Glad to see someone's following me around checking up on me. Too bad webwit seems to think I don't bother doing anything with the wiki. For crying out loud, I'm off work for a week and a half for Christmas, and pretty much all I've done is work on the stupid thing. Every day. I genuinely have no life, at all. None whatsoever.



My objection in general to "Alps-compatible" or "Cherry-compatible" is that some switches on the wiki will be Alps-incompatible-Alps and Cherry-incompatible-Cherry. "Cherry MX compatible" works, but since "Alps CM" is already blatantly wrong, we can't have a new term that builds on another wrong one. By the same token, I'm sticking with Alps CM for now until we have something better. Someone mentioned "Alps leaf spring", but I just read that that's also used for plate spring by some people. I've asked Alps twice now for the official product range name, but they don't answer e-mails. Not even a polite "no longer on our records, sorry", just silence.



If you really are that bothered, change the wiki, and I'll use whatever terms you want. I just don't change things randomly without reason.