@harpaa01 It's quite hard to find you, if one only knows your blog.
But I managed to do it, after searching Twitter with "icanthascheezburger" and then seeing the Mastodon handle in your profile.

But why I even wanted to find you is because I read your blog post about the ZSA Voyager (nice post btw) and I wanted to ask you for a link of your layout. If I read it correctly your have your home row shifted up. How is the layout going after a few weeks and can you recommend shifting the row up?

@Keyruu thanks for reaching out! I should opt into search on here and also you can follow @icanthascheezburger but I’m not sure what replies do!

But to answer your question, I adjusted to that layout really fast, and although the thumb key positioning takes some getting used to with my layout, it feels perfectly natural after a few days.

I’m excited to have a split keyboard tiny enough for travel (which I plan to try this week as I go to a conference)!

@harpaa01 Awesome! Yeah the travelling aspect is also a big plus for me. I just ordered the Voyager 3 days ago and I can’t wait to get my hands on it. Just a bit anxious about only having two thumb keys. That’s why I’m asking about the row shift.
I even printed out the 1:1 pdf to see how it would feel haha
@Keyruu what keyboard are you coming from? If you’ve been on a Planck you’ll be 💯 since it’s 4 extra keys. Bigger keyboards will probably have an adjustment period but with layers it really is not bad and actually becomes preferable when you get to the point where you realize your fingers can travel less

@harpaa01 So I basically first went the DIY route and tried to build a Lily58 and that worked for a week but after that my micro-controller broke (idk why).
Then I tried building a Corne with the LEDs but that was too difficult for my soldering skills and then I just said f- it and ordered the Voyager.

But regarding the adapting it should be fairly easy because I was already fairly comfortable with the Lily58 (70 wpm).

@Keyruu I think if you were using the liky58 you’ll be served well by the voyager. It might need a little rethinking depending on how mission critical those thumb keys were but I bet you’ll be all right!
@harpaa01 Yeah I think so too. Thanks for all the info! But do you have a link to your Voyager keymap on Oryx?
Oryx: The ZSA Keyboard Configurator

A powerful, visual tool to configure your keyboard. Based on the open-source QMK firmware.