I generally have had good conversations with Wixx in the past... I can say that after I posted the last update here, I called him out a bit on a smaller discord for this behavior. He acknowledged that things weren't going as planned, that he was frustrated himself and that there wasn't much to communicate.
I was one of the first people excited about the L50 when the original IC was posted and yet, due to some of his comings and goings ended up not joining the buy. Frankly, I wasn't confident in being in his first run. So keep in mind: my money is not in this buy, but I keep close tabs on it because I think it's a cool project.
Here's my concerns:
1. He's not making regular updates, of any kind.
2. The updates he's making are done on Discord (not here), and only when other people hound him for it
3. It's still unclear with those updates what exactly is happening. They're vague and generally short.
4. Alongside the L50 (his first keyboard GB run), he still ran some "FE" editions of two other keyboards at the same time (L60, L80). Those keyboards are being sent out now, while the original GB here is kinda left without sufficient communication.
Did he run away with the money? I don't think so.
Will people actually see their boards at some point? Probably.
But, as much as I like the look of this (and other boards) he's designed... I likely won't join a buy of his, even though we've been friendly in the past. I've been in quite a few GBs, large and small and I can say for sure that the greatest value a runner can provide is regular updates and communications with those in the buy (Juaninamilli is the gold standard!). Wixx is actively participating in this hobby (other discords, etc), but does not keep the sort of lines of communication in this thread or even his own Discord server that would instill confidence in his customers. Despite running an active GB here on GH, his last post here was a year ago this week.
I realize there are often long periods of dark time for the runner, but that doesn't mean it has to extend to the GB participants.
Here's the last update he put on his Discord: