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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3468141

I have been looking all day for a FOSS keyboard that's under active development. It seems like more of not all of the ones I've seen recommended haven't been updated in over a year some three years. I don't mind if it's a long time between updates but I want to know bugs will be fixed eventually.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Thumb-key by one of the developers of Lemmy. It takes some getting used to but is my favorite at the moment. Updates seem to be around once a month.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, is this a clone of Messagease? I was hoping to find something like that because I love this type of keyboard but I was worried that it hasn't received updates since 2020.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It says it's mainly inspired by MessageEase in the F-droid description. It uses a custom character layout, but you can change to the MessageEase layout in the settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, it doesn't support customizing the layout like MessagEase.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like it but it's very hard for me to type this lol

you can use this? Like as a primary keyboard? It's cool though!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup! I'm getting an average 70 wpm using it. It's quite fun to use (:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

that is crazy lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This keyboard is wild! I do miss the emoji key :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's perfect for emoticons tho :->