speaking of...

anyone else notice the rise in spam? spam in threads, spam in my inbox... i've seen more in the past three weeks than my entire tribe subscription (since 1-1-04).

i have a theory (such as it is)... since tribe decided to put ads in the middle of threads, now anyone thinks they can do it.

i have seen the death of tribe, and its not what we thought it was. the spammers shall inherit the earth (and all bbs or bbs-like systems).

Coolness.

Toute suite! S'il vous plait!!

~MTS~

The customization for your homepage you should see coming out in a couple of weeks won't include the ability to customize colors. It is something we're looking into, but there are a few issues to be worked out such as what the configuration screens should look like and what changes we need to make to the database to track these properties.

What you should see is a greater degree of customization on your home page. You'll have more control over what tribes are displayed and how they're sorted. You'll be able to see listings beyond just your friends out into your social network or in a specified region. These properties will be configurable be you. You'll be able to select the type of post that show up, so if you don't want to see recommendation of request you'll be able to turn them off. There will be a new module displaying events coming up in the near future that you'll be able to customize from what's happening today out to what's happening for the next couple of weeks.

In the future we hope to give more control over how things are displayed, allowing you to add or take away modules and reposistion where they appear on the screen, and yes we'd like to give you more control over color but that's still at least one more release cycle away.

I hope that gives you a little insite into what's coming up.

Sorry Wade -- just frustrated.... didn't mean to take it out on you personally...

The colors are great. But to answer your question, no. The "warm and friendly" vibe of the old Tribe was because of the community that was built here by its members -- and the old UI wonderfully supported that. Tribe has *imposed* the new UI (which supports Tribe's marketing aims, but has alienated the very community Tribe helped create) on that community. In other words, the community now has to work around the UI, instead of the UI being the tool that brings the community together.

I think it was you, Warren, who finally addressed the problem in a way that made sense, saying that the upset was coming in large part from the conflict of interests between Tribe's members, who felt a sense of ownership of the site, and Tribe's business plan. I thanked you then for at least being honest about it, and I still feel what you said holds true.

So that's what I'm talking about here, which is why the post is titled "Another Bitch".... To repeat. It's been over a month and the bad taste in my mouth has not gone away about this site. I still use it. I still use it regularly. And I don't expect anything to change that will reverse the damage done to the community that once lived here. And that's frustrating as hell. Most of the people may still be here, but the entity that was once the living Tribe has been killed.


And just to nip it in the bud, if you're tired of hearing people like me complain about the good ol' days, you may just have to get used to *that*.