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And then after some years the website is down and you end with a brock

• Elidrake24 29d ago
  Isn't all of the code in browser rather than serverside, so a simple Command + S would future proof yourself?
• andrewla 29d ago
  It's all client side -- someone (maybe me!) would spin up openkeychron from an old saved copy of the webpage and we'd be back in business in a day. Right now the keychron-hosted solution is fine -- no accounts or anything crazy -- so there's no impetus. EDIT: turns out that my keychron, at least, is compatible with QMK/VIA and there are already open source alternatives [1] that do the job. [1] https://usevia.app https://usevia.app, https://remap-keys.app https://remap-keys.app
• brachkow 24d ago
  Web-based software is easy to extract (singlefile), preserve (webarchive), or even rebuild during its lifespan. Desktop software is way less reliable than you think – I have a few Akai keyboards I can't configure because they don't work on my Mac already, not to mention how hard it was at least finding this executable for more than decade old keyboard.