I agree with you. I could care less about Tribe Chat, RSS Feeds, linking to other social networks, etc. I really just use the basic functionality. Enhancements to those features, ie. Mark all read, sorting options for pictures would be nice but at the end of the day is the basic system with stability that I want.

Hi Again,

Someone from the UK just reminded me that Tribe is international and that "the middle of the night" for me is during the day for many others around the planet. So I would like to make two corrections to my above post (I guess I can't edit it after people reply):

1> Occasional maintenance happens on all sites.. so Tribe being down once in awhile (like once a month?) for a few hours would be just fine... and perhaps it could be "night time" in a different time zone each time. It would also be nice to have advanced warning somehow (like my web host does for me).

2> I also want to point that that I am not against new fun features... new stuff is great. As long as it doesn't degrade the stability and access to what we already have.

Have to say I agree ...

+1

I agree, too and I thought this is what my money was going towards when I agreed to pay tribe money monthly. I don't think I've gotten what I've paid for ie. site stability, and I have thought about downgrading my membership. The impression I get as a result of the outages is that tribe is unreliable, and I would prefer to communicate on a site that I can count on. That said, I really like and appreciate the community that tribe represents and would be very sad to see it go away, but as a result of the outages, more and more people I know have been leaving tribe and migrating to other community sites.

Like Bobzilla, I would definitely like a heads up if Tribe goes under and we need to get our data and connections in order. I think I will already start the process of saving my photos and blog entries elsewhere just in case. What can I say, I don't think I can fully trust that the site will provide what it has, but all the discussions in various tribes are irreplaceable really.....there's been a lot of shared knowledge especially in the environmental tribes.

Well said -storm-

Stability,
stability,
stability.

Then if you have extra money and time add some bells and whistles. But even then, keep it stable.

I have a number of friends who are bailing. None of them are leaving tribe because of a lack of features.

Just another voice chiming in on the request for stability .....