Hot Take: North Oriented LEDs Aren't The Issue

Originally Published: 2022-06-01 Introduction There are a lot of “influencers” in the keyboard community that complain any chance they get about keyboards that have the LEDs installed in the north side of the switch socket (see the little white squares in the cover photo). One literally titled his review of one keyboard “This board is almost perfect, EXCEPT” with the text in the thumbnail image reading “$60, but a fatal flaw.” That “fatal flaw”? North oriented LEDs. Another recently whinged in a video “[...] I wear the North Face, I don't want this in my keyboards... What the hell. I still have to build this?” [Author's Note: I am not calling out these creators. I am just using their statements as illustrations of the kind of non-useful comments that are reinforcing what I believe is a bad take. I am not trying to start a war with anyone, hence I am not naming the creators, or providing links to their videos. I honestly have nothing against them, and I generally like and watch their…