I spent over 4 hours in staff rooms yesterday, hearing them talk about the changes. I asked them some questions, and I will tell you my findings now.
I asked them do they intend on removing all profiles unless your a broadcaster, they said no.
I asked them why are my friends all gone, they basically turned friends and fans into the same thing making it a simpler system which I agree with. The reason why all of our friends have not been transferred over into followers yet is unknown to ever jtv staff, they were hoping it would all be done the first night they made changes but that's not going as they planned. I asked Justin himself when does he think it will be fully transferred, he did not know and then proceeded to tell me that as soon as possible. They want it done as much as we do. This also explains the problems with meebo, they also need to update meebo to work properly which they are doing right now.
I then proceeded to my most important point that they fucked up by not telling us anything at all, they just put all these changes in without any notice at all. Justin himself apologized to me and all the members of the chat room and admitted that it was definitely not the right way to go about doing changes.
Was it all lies or truth? Well I think considering the fact that we don't pay for jtv this is very nice to see, them making an effort to try to solve our problems.