Im down also, but as said above I had a real hard time finding my friend when we tried. Ended up rage quitting after just less then 2 hours running around trying to find each other..
I have been planning on checking out the modded servers to see if there is anything that would help but havent gotten around to it, also dont know if they would have a way to make it more viable to find people. Anyways contact the devs and tell them to fix it Zorph!