diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 39cbf61..5d93c25 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 	<p>tilde.chat is meant to be a space for all tilde members to hang out, share, teach, and learn.</p>
 
 	<p>feel free to contact a tilde.team admin (<?php
-	$team = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://tildeverse.org/members.json"))->members[1];
+	$members = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://tildeverse.org/members.json"))->members;
+	$team = $members[1];
 	$count = count($team->sysadmins);
 	foreach($team->sysadmins as $sysadmin) {
 		echo "<a href='{$sysadmin[1]}'>{$sysadmin[0]}</a>";
@@ -29,7 +30,6 @@
 	<ul>
 
 	<?php
-		$members = json_decode(file_get_contents("members.json"))->members;
 		foreach($members as $member) {
 			echo "\t\t<li><a href='{$member->link}'>{$member->name}</a> (sysadmin";
 			if (count($member->sysadmins)!=1) {