Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard?

Master Moose writes "Brisbane-based entrepreneur John Lambie currently has in beta an alternative to what he calls the 'dysfunctional' QWERTY keyboard. Given the way the world is abandoning their keyboards for smartphones he sees now as the perfect time to introduce a new layout. He calls his new keyboard Dextr and believes it is the natural progression from using a number pad to enter text — This is especially so in developing countries where users have not grown up with QWERTYs on thier phones. While he is not the first to ever propose an alternate or alphabetical keyboard — Are we locked into QWERTY for familiarity's sake, or as we shift to smaller, more mobile and new devices, is Mr. Lambie's project coming at the right time?"

Comments

Re:No

[MyLongNickName]

I browse at -1 for reasons like this. There is absolutely no reason that this should have been modded down. Since I never get mod points despite a solid posting records and metamodding, all I can do is appeal to someone else to mod this back up.

Re:No

[Xest]

"Since I never get mod points despite a solid posting records and metamodding"

I think the system is fucked, has been for years, and has never been fixed, about 2 years ago I too had had none in about a year or more, then all of a sudden the system started shitting 15 mod points at me multiple times a day for a good week or two, I was granted more mod points than I ever knew what to do with in this period, but have never had mod points in the 2 years since.

Thought I don't even bother meta-moderating now, the whole moderation system here is so broken it's not even worth paying any attention to it. Just use the site as you prefer to use it and ignore the whole moderation system, it's basically a big fat trollfest used to silence legitimate speech far more than it's used to moderate up good comments (and plenty of good comments get modded up, so that should kinda hit how many good comments get modded down).

There's an absolute wealth of information available here if you're willing to browse at -1, or 0 and just scroll past the actual troll posts and spam. It's just a shame the moderation system no longer works to reasonably consistently bring it above the rest anymore.

Re:Inertia

[kelemvor4]

Getting herpes would also be a refreshing change, but I think I'm better off with the mundane life of being STD free.

Personally, I don't think I'd describe contracting an STD as refreshing. It would be a change, but not a refreshing one in my opinion.