It is finally here. This is now officially the longest, most complicated, and most unasked for review of Cherry MX Brown switches ever. While you may already know a bit about them, I’m near certain there are things in this article you didn’t know. What’s the worst that could happen? I somehow make more fourth wall breaking jokes?

It’s time to celebrate because the website is officially one year old! What do we do with celebrations around here? We post a long form discussion about the previous year’s content as well as potential plans for future content! (And maybe pin the tail on the donkey, if you’re lucky.)

Coming to the end of year one of the website and year two of collecting, it’s not often that I am caught off guard by how good or how bad switches turn out. That being said, these switches from Everglide - one of handfuls they’ve released since 2019 - definitely did surprise me. The real question was if they turned out great, or failed like all of the other transparent switch attempts…

Inspired by one of the most sought after vintage MX style switches in Cherry Nixdorf Blacks, do these modern takes stack up to the originals? Do Opblacks even stack up to their own marketing? Take a look inside at a breakdown not only of Opblacks’ internals, but their performance, and also a tiny sprinkling of their historical firsts.

Moving away from the bigger name releases this week, I take a deep dive into KTT Strawberries, a recent release from a smaller name brand that is rapidly gaining popularity with each release. This is definitely one of the names in switches that you will want to know in 2021.

A fourth consecutive linear review? Not this time! Instead, we go all the way back to the first modern switch to be colored after a keycap set and explore all of the nuances of Box switches alongside it with From the Vault: Novelias.

New Durock switch housing materials? Check. New review over 12 pages in length? Check. Handfuls of photographs with a new fancy setup? Check. Come kick off 2021 the right way with a brand new review of Durock’s Lavender switches and find out if they really have the hot new molds that the marketing claims...

With not one but two different vendors working to get Durock POM Linears into their stores, this is the review that you want to read to be on top of the first Durock/JWK made POM housing switches.

After a year of massive success and widespread acclaim, the Alpaca switches have received an update and a fresh new set of molds. Do the Alpaca V2s stack up to the original Alpaca V1s, or are they even better?

Coming seemingly out of nowhere, the Gateron Kangaroo Inks are certainly among the more interesting switches that have been released in 2020. Check out this review to see if bifurcated tactility, long springs, and odd color schemes really are the new future of tactile switches.