Well, here we are! After a week of semi-downtime, I'm happy to announce that we're up and running and here to stay. The new site incorporates a lot of the things that I've been interested in doing, but really, this is just a platform for going forward. See that navigation menu on the left? In my mockups, there are a dozen or so more entries in it. Realistically, I expect that I'll be cleaning up the system (report bugs here please) for the next few days, but there are a ton of new features I want to roll out, and soon.

In the meantime, the front page stories are still here, just like on VP, as is The Eazy Vegan, our online cooking show (new episodes coming soon!), and the Vegan Booze List, which I'm looking forward to actually updating - you have no idea how much time the forums were taking from me. As part of a soon to be clarified site mandate, I'm launching The Thrust Report, which isn't really new, but it's probably new to you - if you publish a printed veg newsletter, there's a whack of fresh content waiting for you. Fans of the past few days' video messages will be happy to see Quick Tastes, our (mostly) 2 minute or less video feature. Finally, since there's a ton of stuff on the way, we're starting a weekly email newsletter that you might want to sign up for.

If you're not excited yet, please try to get excited about the idea of maybe getting excited soon. There's a lot of stuff coming, but this past week was a little busy - except for the headlines and the booze list and the EZV, which was just data, none of this system existed a week ago! This is what not having a forum anymore means. I'll miss the conversations, but I'm really looking forward to actually getting things done again.

Enjoy!