Yeah I don't follow bitcointalk actively. I check it a few times a day to answer questions if there are any.

At the end of this weekend I should be able to show screenshots about the name exchange.
The current plan is to launch on a friday so that it will be easier to handle all the questions and possible problems that may happen.
If everything goes fine the launch should be on 16 may.

The beta servers have been running quite well for long periods of time despite of the bugs the beta client has.
I was actually hoping people would try to crash them but that hasn't happened yet.