I was on a local server for my city when I was working on my first mechanical keyboard build and found a good amount of fellow enthusiasts, both newbies like me and some veterans with serious skills and experience. A lot of the draw of mechanical keyboards is the tactile sensation/sounds and it can be hard to try out different switches irl to figure out what you like so I figured meeting up would be beneficial to everyone.
Being probably the most extroverted person on there, I organized a meet up to show off all our boards and saw some incredibly cool creations. It was great to meet so many people that were really introverted and online but so passionate excited to share about one of their special interests. It was supposed to be indoors but I fucked up with the venue and we ended up doing it in the park and got a lot of curious onlookers and the group grew to over 30. I met some really cool people and actually ended up getting a couple together there that had a secret veiled mutual interest that I (gently)pushed together at that first irl meeting, they’re still together today.
