[mikeSiLVO]

Hello Everyone, Michael here.

Ok, lets try and sort this out with what has gone on and firstly I'd like to apologize to Mr. Magician. Mike I don't believe anything bad was intended with regards to the announcement of the way Madnox is going for Leia with the complete re-build and changing from what the current skin offers. Please don't think there was any disrespect in that, I just think it was a matter of bad timing. But please PM me my friend if you would like to talk more about it.

Right, a status update and some background on why Madnox is in the state it is now.

Background first,

I basically had on of the worst years of my life in 2015-16 with first losing our good fried and my skinning partner Schimi2k and then losing my Mother. I unfortunately have slipped to a very dark and depressing place where motivation just basically doesn't exist. Add into this that I felt the skinning was getting nothing but negative comments, the last big update the 2 of us did before Schimi2k passed away was the boxsets for Kodiflix and other things. We got basically no positive comments on it and the standard negative comments that just always seem to exist. We were both pretty annoyed with the way things seem to constantly be going with the skin no matter what we attempted to fix or add to it. Please note I've been skinning for maybe 3 years now in total time but around 18-24 months in actual learning / work and I'm still a noob, I just do what I can in a way I can that seems to work, if it is the right skinning way then probably not but I was just trying to improve / keep alive one of the most community friendly skins available.

I did try to continue after what happened until earlier this year, one main problem I had is could no longer get motivated and come up with new ideas / improvements for Madnox and as such began to lost interest in Madnox!

Current Status,

As you'll now know from the background, basically I have little to no motivation in life let alone working on a skin that just seems to create more stress and depression. Yes this is probably not the actual situation but generally that is how it feels. So due to all of this I basically walked away from Madnox and to be honest that actually hurt a lot to do as I loved what I was trying to do.

With regards to the skin, the current version of Madnox does have a WIP process Leia solution that MikeSilvo recently re-informed everyone about and then there are plans to re-write from the ground up as apparently Madnox is based on code that is so old, and don't forget managed by me ;-), that the code isn't very good and actually crap. So Mr. V had the idea to re-write from the ground up using last skinning techniques etc. etc. to make it more efficient and better for the future. Unfortunately this is taking a long time, as you'd expect really given what Madnox tries to offer to the user, and at the moment has no real time frame for when it may become available.

Again, I'm sorry to MikeSilvo for what's happened mainly due to me walking away and nothing more. It's all my fault and everyone else has only ever been doing what they can to help us maintain this old war horse. As always I'm very thankfully of the friendships made while being owner of Madnox and the help those individuals are always willing to offer. They don't know how much it means.

So, with all this you could easily come to the conclusion the skin is dead as I don't respond to posts anymore and I haven't worked on it for while. To the users I apologize for this as I know some of you via chatting in PMs and I have an idea what Madnox means to some of you and doing what I did was wrong but Real Life can be a bitch sometimes you know.

So the future,

Well I'm not sure, I'm involved with the Madnox re-write but that is Mr. V's baby and he is owner, which before anyone starts saying anything, is all completely agreed and fine. Something needs to happen like is happening to give full longevity to Madnox.

But, right now I'm very close to coming back to skinning and the existing Madnox, I'm thinking that I want to continue myself with the existing Code and keep this edition of Madnox alive, but if that happens is another thing right now as I've got to find the motivation to start and to continue with it! I'll take a look at our WIP Leia verions that we already have and look at just dealing with any missing Leia changes to start with perhaps?

So to cap all this waffling of, Madnox isn't quite dead and will have a future. If I'm involved with that isn't 100% right now but I'll give it a go and see what happens, right now that's all  I can really do!

I'd like to thank everyone who has ever used Madnox and enjoyed using it, It was great fun to do it at one point and might be again in the future.

Finally, best wishes to everyone at this time of the year.

Regards,

Mike.

Hey Mike, you have the best name by the way

I spoke last in this thread with absolutes but now realize that it was a horrible mistake and I apologize for that.

I would love to work on MadNox with you and update the current skin for all the users who run it as their preferred Kodi GUI.

I really only have one condition and that is you are in charge, you are the boss, you are the final decision maker. If that is something you are OK with then please let me know and we can get started ASAP working together updating MadNox whenever you can find the time to do so

I want to work it out together but you da boss

P.S.
I do not know what the reason was for the working GitHub repo to be deleted or how mentioning in this thread the possibility of another skin existing someday when there is nothing for anyone to see or use when current users are asking for help.

Regardless, this whole thing did rub me the wrong way but none of you owe me anything so this was and is just a personal thing I felt to be, confusing...