Hey Everybody,

We're entering week 2 of Xomba 3.0 live Beta.  Thanks for all the encouragement and positive messages.  We've had an overwhelming response to the new design.  Over a year of work went into it, from design to programming. 

Thank you for bearing with the bugs.  We feel confident that most of them shall be gone by next Monday.  As we solve them we'll post updates on our blog.  Please remain patient just a few more days.

Regarding HTML and videos in your posts.  HTML code will not work in your posts.  We have no intention of allowing it in the future.  We do plan to allow you guys to post Youtube and Hulu videos again.  Hopefully, it won't take too long for us to activate that.

Reads and Images are saved.  Don't worry your old reads will be coming back this week or next.

We're still noticing and getting reports of higher CTRs and Adsense revenue.  Excellent news.  We'll continue to monitor here on out and plan to do some light modification on the top Adsense block on Xombytes. 

We've brought back the Hall Of Fame page.  We just need to update it with the new members.

Our plan for this week is as follows:

• Conquer remaining bugs on the site.
• Plan for officially launching Xomba next week.
• Prepare two new contests to be launched in the next two weeks.  One of which will have significant prizes.
• Jeremy will be sending out reminders and updates to Feature Writers.
• Planning our new front page feature called Xomba Recommends.
• Getting Xomba Chat re-enabled.
• Re-Adding the Make Money pages.
• Getting the Share This/Bookmark button on all the posts.
• Printing new T-shirts!
• and so much more...

Bear with us.  We have some busy weeks ahead.  Not to mention more development.

Coming Features

• Xomblurb/Xombyte Friend Filter
• Most Votes Friends
• User Search
• Plus Many Others

Future development for the next several months.  We have a lot planned and we're so excited to finally officially launch Xomba after 3 years.

Should be an exciting 12 months!

Thank you for supporting us and remember you guys were all the original members.

Want to learn about all the new exciting features at Xomba?

Check out our how to guide on using social features on Xomba.

We'd like to thank our awesome interns; Kristen, Rachel and Sarah.  They were a huge help these last 2 months. You guys rock!  Unfortunately, this is their last week with us and we'll miss them.

Take Care,
Xomba Staff