Tribe is Dead, Long Live Tribe.
I love Tribe.net. I started Blogging on tribe a few years back. I have found whole communities through Tribe. I have found the people I meet at parties. I have organized theme camps and planned whole events through it. It was a great site, really.
But, DAMNIT! It just ate another event I tried to post when it decided to periodically go out on me. It hasn’t been reliable in months. I think someone over there keeps forgetting to switch the power on or something. it is more than a little maddening. And now, as a result of tribe’s downess, there are fewer blog posts from my friends, which nowadays is the whole reason I even go on tribe.
I want them to win, I really do. I want tribe to stay awesome and replace facebook as my default social networking site. I want it’s service to keep up with the rapidly advancing technology. I don’t know what the answer is. But maybe it looks like one of our genius programmer friends designing a site that operates in almost the same way. Maybe Tribe needs to give the code to the community. Maybe someone needs to invest that money we all paid for “premium” memberships into some infrastructure that works.
Until then, find me on facebook,myspace or subscribe to my blog www.spaceman23.com in an RSS reader (google reader changed my life), or find spaceman on twitter. I don’t see myself trying desperately to post things on Tribe until they work their shit out. Right now it’s all on my site.
Long Live Tribe!