TRIBE go back to last version
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I wouldn't know. I just joined on a friend's invite. It is kind of hard to get around, but I guess I'll figure it out. I don't know what code to use in messages or blogs in order to arrange the text and stuff. HTML doesn't work. It does kind of have an off-putting slick, professional ad designer look, but it is not the cover of the book that matters, it is the quality of the words inside. I had no idea there were ads. I guess I could look for the giveaway "Advertisement" label. I use FireFox and the fox doesn't like ads anymore than I do so I don't see them anyway. - Unsubscribed , posted 04/23/06 |
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They'll never change..! - snoopindaweb , posted 04/21/06 |
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The latest changes make tribe even UGLIER than before. When will it stop? - Malvado Supremo , posted 04/13/06 |
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Just to add my voice in addition. I think everything said. It looks like tribe did two things that seem to drive the design at least - one the ads, which, okay I do not like but could live with if that was the only thing,... it's not... horrible red and wite and large white and all I think maybe either trying to cater to an elderly audience (yeah, not!!) or the've gone color blind... I've adjusted to most changes, though highly dislike but I just can't seem to adjust to this color scheme!! OH my gosh!! So now here's the question, is tribe even reading these comments?? - Mary , posted 03/14/06 |
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What happened? I am so lost...it takes forever and a lot of circles just to get back to what I wanted to do! :( - Bronwyn , posted 03/01/06 |
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This new design for Tribe is AWFUL, and I haven't heard anyone with an opinion otherwise. And now I have to click through some kind of advertisement when I log in? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? Tribe used to seem like a really awesome website. Now it just sucks, and is moving in the direction of being as soul-suckingly distasteful and irksome as some other god-awful sites I'm sure we could all (most unfortunately) name... - Birdsong , posted 02/25/06 |
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I'm totally lost in trying to navigate through my profile, make changes when I want to and try and find other tribes. This whole new interface is awful. I much preferred the original. I don't even use Tribe that much anymore and this new interface has alot to do with it. It's a shame... - Universal Friend , posted 02/19/06 |
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Curious how this design got through a beta test as is? Curious-er still if it was ever put infront of a group of users not involved in the design. It took me a week to figure out how to get to my mail. Now that I know where to look I see the little envelope icon all the time and think I have mail when I don't. Took me two weeks to figure out why sometimes I went to my area when I clicked on My Tribe and sometimes i went to listing of all locations. Its not intuitive, things are difficult to find, there is no "roadmap" of how to get where. I did prefer the old design for usability, however I could live with this one if only you would listen the issues your users are having (rather consistant themes here) and fix the navigation issues. - Mary Ellen , posted 02/16/06 |
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I understand the reasoning but the implementation is lousy. When can we go back? - Fiera , posted 02/13/06 |
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I gave the new design a few weeks and agree with the others...go back to the old design! - Benetessa , posted 02/13/06 |
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Navigation is not nearly as smooth. Who designed this.....someone who never uses the site? - Unsubscribed , posted 02/11/06 |
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...and hate is the only word I can use for the new format..yet it's still not BIG enuff to desribe the sour taste the navigation,look,assembly, etc. leave in my once watering mouth. Once set appart from Myspace and HI-5...Tribe has joined the herd.......baaaaaaaaaad....baaaaaaaaad - Unsubscribed , posted 02/10/06 |
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Thank you for trying to make TribeNet better... The new looks seem fake and does not feel right... It also seems harder to navigate the new version of tribe net... before the TribeNet change I would rate the looks at 9. now I rate the looks at 1... Hope the tribe's look improves... please go back to the old look or a better one then the red and grey fake look we now have... but i still think tribe.net is cool and all those who make TribeNet possible are the best. peace and wellbeing - VPK , posted 02/06/06 |
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Honnestly, this looks like a McDonalds website would...I hate it. It's clinical and neutral and it used to be inspirational. - sapphirah , posted 02/03/06 |
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I agree....I hate the new format...in fact, I spend alot less time on it than before....I really don't like the new tribe...can we have the old one back.... peace hopper - Hopper , posted 02/02/06 |
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And now, some of the features that I found useful are now buried. No, I don't like the new look of tribe. - Mavi , posted 02/02/06 |
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... and then everyone complained that it sucked and tasted like crap? Coke was forced to bring back their old flavor because of all the complaints (and ended up calling it coke classic -ha!). let's hope tribe hears us complain about the lame new interface and decides they made a mistake and has to bring back the previous version. Bring back Tribe Classic! - Smackalicious , posted 02/02/06 |
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Ever heard the expression, "Once a scene becomes a scene it's no longer a scene"? I was dancing along the path, openly engaging and conversing with lovely, interesting new friends just outside my circle...and then the spectators showed up and started staring and pretty soon we felt like puppets on display, a veritable freakshow. Not that performing isn't fun... Yep, this is weird, this star-spangled red and white facade. First I got messages telling me that a picture of me breastfeeding my child was inappropriate. Then I took a little hiatus and came back to this?! WTF. Something stinks. I don't come around that often, maybe just enough to say hi and find something fun to do. But I'm no puppet. Follow me? - Deebug , posted 02/02/06 |
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There is already a myspace and it at least lets you listen to music tribe is now a shitty imitation of myspace its obvioius tribe is dumping its users for a different demographic or has just been taken over by the right wing neo cons I keep seeing the Target dog in all this orange and white migraine layout i can't find my mailbox Shame on you tribe - Alyexiah , posted 02/01/06 |
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people have a hard time when it comes to change! - Randy , posted 02/01/06 |
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I was just getting use to the other version. People will get use to this new version. I prefer the other however and it seems tribe is just trying to expand the user base to compete with my space. maybe change will come again. - mercury , posted 02/01/06 |
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who ever "they" are(them that made tribe this way) obviously want us to stop thinking tribally, unified and diversified, and to be way more self centered, MyTribe, jeez, how much of a conspiracy are you willing to believe? how big is/was tribe? how much of an influence on peoples thoughts and ideas, and now how offensive. - Josh , posted 02/01/06 |
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I have say that the redesign sucks, I liked the old lay out it was easy to navagate. can we have a setting that alows us to just switch back. - Katdavar , posted 02/01/06 |
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Me no like change. Espescially change for the stupid. Please bring back old one. New one stink like dog turd sundae. Me post less now. Revisit MYSPACE easier use than this. - Xtian , posted 01/31/06 |
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what happen tribe? horrible redesign, horrible - Damon , posted 01/31/06 |
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New Tribe Sucks. I want the old tribe. - SinFUSION/SLICK , posted 01/31/06 |
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Not a big fan of the cheerful version of Tribe that's up now. Too happy-looking. - Jon , posted 01/31/06 |
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Yay, I'm not really thirlled with the new tribe. I liked the old tribe, but I would like to see more options. Such as being able to customize the background, add music to the page, etc... would be a nice touch. But agreed, this red and white is way too brite and I feel really limited to what I can do in "MY TRIBE". There's more space on the page, which I like but I think more revision is needed... This one isn't really that great. - ☆ Zing ☆ , posted 01/31/06 |
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I actually had my old UI back for about half an hour today...I couldn't have been happier. now this. I have a headache. - Alexandra , posted 01/31/06 |
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Hey Jan, The new tribe SUCKS. Hope you enjoy your fat paycheck. thanks for ruining a great site - Steve , posted 01/31/06 |
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Mercy from the soulless layout, mercy from the constant advertising, mercy from the corporate conception of this crap in the first place. Please give me my tribe back. - Tonya , posted 01/31/06 |
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It used to be I could not wait to visit tribe. Now I could care less. You've cut our wings tribe bandits. - juliet , posted 01/31/06 |
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I hate it. It's sterile. It's not very intuitive. - Unsubscribed , posted 01/31/06 |
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It's so freaking bright....I had to turn the brightness on my computer screen way down to look at it. All that white and aggro red. How about some blue, black, brown or something??? What was nice about the old layout is that it focused more on community. When you logged in, your home page showed listings from people in your area and people up to four degrees around you. Now your page is YOUR friends, YOUR friend's blogs, YOUR stuff. Me me me me me, right? Community dies and staunch individualism is born. I do commend tribe for providing an amazing **free** service such as this one. I've met lots of great people through here. But now the new layout seems to make it harder to forge community (and read). - tushara , posted 01/31/06 |
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It was cute, clever, hot even, worked for everyone. Now in it's attempt to be like everyone else it's gotten totally fu*ked up, ruined itself and works for no one. Tribe, like Lindsay Lohan, needs to go back to it's original color, the new color sucks. - Spookee , posted 01/31/06 |
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has anyone noticed the wording.. "my Tribe".. me's think "myspace" but in a different layout just logged in for the first time in weeks and MAN did this place (TRIBE land) ever change. I noticed my layout is now generic and I guess need to shift things around.. hopefully it won't be to bad. The one thing that hasn't changed is the simple framing of member's profile pixs.. that caught my eye immediately.. not much more to say until I look through my profile page. ~A~ - Atcandéla , posted 01/30/06 |
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it was decent before and now it's just crap. - Unsubscribed , posted 01/30/06 |
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I really enjoyed the layout before tribe changed. In addition to the old tribe being more attractive it had links to get to my messages at the top of every page, and the things that were most important were easier to get to. Although i appreciate that tribe needs ads to create revenue, i detest ads on my personal tribe page. As a result i have taken all personal photos off the page to avoid having my images next to big ads. This makes my personal site much less personal. The previous tribe was a better design and very user friendly. - *Bliss* , posted 01/30/06 |
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i don't like it. I sent a friend a message questioning why tribe was all of a sudden poopy... he told me it wasn't poopy, it was innovative. I still think it's poopy. i don't enjoy it. I find it more difficult to navigate and still haven't figured out where to find everything yet. - Charity , posted 01/30/06 |
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ummm? what's going on?!!! the layout sucks and i had such expectations for the change... - katrinka! , posted 01/30/06 |
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the red reminds me of blood-tinged vomitous swill - art , posted 01/30/06 |
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with all this protest... first comes the "flagging", then its the interface change. not only is it horrible, frankly, the only thing this new interface works for is easier '"flagging". why so much cencorship? why are we ignored? -  burcu
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The only parallel I can draw here is that New Tribe reminds me of New Coke- no one liked it then and no one seems to like things now. Keep it simple, keep it classic. - Piwaket, the devi... , posted 01/30/06 |
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Totally Crapulent. It's Craposity is unmatched. - Angelina , posted 01/30/06 |
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Several inconsistencies throughout the new UI (e.g. event listings being referred to as "posts" in multiple places, but not being treated as "new posts" in counters), a set of controls that not always clear (e.g. the delineation "my tribe" and "change location" links in the upper-left is not obvious), and a lack of personalization options for the home page add up to a poor user experience overall. - Uncle Pauly , posted 01/30/06 |
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Really! What is this, Target meets Disneyland?! PLEASE. o.O - Unsubscribed , posted 01/30/06 |
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While I think the desire to tweek Tribe is coming with good intentions, I do think the look is alienating peeps who really suppor this community. Visually, the new layout and color scheme have antiseptic look. Please consider revising to give this site some soul again. - Lawrence , posted 01/30/06 |
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however...the look is all wrong for the Tribe user. the layout is complicated. you had so much going for you by being different. i now feel kinda like i'm on the "popular kids" network...like we went from secondhand store to the GAP. i don't know, it's more a feeling than what i can actually pinpoint. why is it so tacky now...? who thought it was a good idea...did'nt you all have a vote or something? it is hard to believe that several people, on a planning comitee, would actually pass this new set up. sorry, to be a DOWNER. I DO LOVE THE FUNCTION. thanx for your time. i hope somebody is not at home crying right now 'cause nobody likes their project upgrade. love-jessy - jessica , posted 01/30/06 |
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really, just sucks, not down, not one bit... might as well be myspce now... USELESS!! - Unsubscribed , posted 01/30/06 |
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My sentiments EXACTLY. Thanks for putting the words into my mouth. "yes, the color scheme is pretty horrid, but my biggest complaint is actually the browsing. whereas before, you could see everything in one place, now certain things are truncated or mixed up in such a way that the information on the "main" user page is just a jumbled mess. i used to be able to see all of my friends' recent blog posts in one space, but now all of that is mixed up with their listings and reccomendations and events . . . and _forget_ about looking at info on the tribes. yes, i realize that you can see _just_ threads, or _just_ listings at once, but it was rather nice to have all of that recent information on one page, rather than having to tab through several in order to see everything that's new. in the meantime, why can we no longer see _all_ of our tribes on the main user page? i don't know about anyone else, but for me, the tribes that have the smallest number of new posts are the ones i'm reading the most frequently . . . the very same ones that are truncanted on my main page. that's absolutely useless to me. as for profiles, now things are squished so that things are narrower, so if your name exceeds a certain amount of space [or characters], you just don't get to have your whole handle on your own usepage? before, it would at least start a new line in that case, but now, not so much. on my profile, i'm missing two characters off the end of my handle because the view is so inflexible. giving us a userpage that has a layout similar to the profile page seems to have been the goal in mind with these changes, but because they're inflexible, users are unable to make tribe into something that works for them. please bring back our tribe to us. hell, maybe you could even offer the different site layouts to us so that we could choose which one we want to use! at least then, you'd have a clearer idea as to what people truly do prefer instead of simply seeing a ton of dissent and that's all. then you could phase out the lesser-used version and improve on the prefered one! say you'll do it for all of us who are frustrated with this new look! please? ~e. - .grannybitter. (2°), posted 01/25/06" - Josh Skywise , posted 01/29/06 |
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Completly agree with Andrea and every other person I've talked to about this "new look" that Tribe has decided to opress us. It's bland and complex all in one. Geeez. When are we switching back??? - REbecCa , posted 01/29/06 |
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I find myself spending far less time on Tribe now. It feels SO unfriendly. Hey web designer-corporate-make money off it people...are you listening yet? Change it or lose it... j - John Glade , posted 01/29/06 |
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Whoever said that navigation was hard has it right on....it feels like a friggin' nightmare. Sometimes I just give up, and come back the next day...to the same frustration. And, I was starting to get into this too...I'm not giving up yet, but this is far less fun than it used to be... - saguaro , posted 01/29/06 |
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I'm glad to see other people feel the same way. I find myself logging in here alot less since they changed the format and I want the old tribe back!!! - Travis , posted 01/29/06 |
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this resembles a minimalist interpretation of later soviet propaganda- it seems that this site becomes more and more facist as it progresses- please return to the old system- or even the one before it- that would be perfect - BenEL , posted 01/29/06 |
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was it broke? why fix it? - Unsubscribed , posted 01/29/06 |
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I really think you missed the boat. The fonts are harder to read, the graphics at the top of the page are tacky, the red/white hurts my eyes.... I find it weird that with so much talent on here you coudn't come up with something better. The navigation is confusing and many of the good features have been hidden or removed. SIGH, I was just starting to get into this place too and now all my friends are leaving. - Julia , posted 01/29/06 |
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nice attempt at making it slicker... need to let it grow on me... but it is rough. like its its totoally slower and takes longer to do anything... i will say the new layout sucks... would have liked a "mark all read" freeegin' somewhere! - Dru-Purt , posted 01/31/06 |
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the UI is unwieldly and unfriendly. Hope you're receiving the messages. We love the community tribe inspires, it'd be a shame to watch it disappear faster than it grew. Hoping for the best. - shin , posted 01/28/06 |
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Sucks. Sucks. SUCKS. I joined Tribe because it had a certain bohemian/artsy/Burning Man vibe to it. It was so much different than the other networking sites. Now it is indistinguishable from them. Hurts my eyes, hard to navigate, FUCKING ANNOYING ADS, has slipped into completely avoidable mediocrity. I could care less about "marketing" - give me a TRIBE of free spirits I can relate to!! Ooops - that's not "marketable," is it? My bad. I won't be hanging around here much anymore. BTW, people - if you think the new design sucks, stop giving it 5 stars!!! 5 stars means "excellent" - 1 star means "poor." Sheesh. - Marisa , posted 01/28/06 |
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see to us users it wasn't broken at all! but for the people that ran Tribe weren't making money, so they did this insted of charging us money to be on tribe. - samantha , posted 01/28/06 |
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i can berely figure out where things are on my home page. while i used to spend hours on tribe, i can now barely spend 5 minutes because it hurts my eyes so much. maybe i should open a myspace account. - Vi , posted 01/27/06 |
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This post tells our sentiment. tRIBE USED TO BE EASY TO USE , NOW IT sucks TO USE, BUT MY FRIENDS ARE STILL ON IT. i HOPE YOU GUYS CAN GET IT TOGETHER , BECAUSE i LOVE TRIBE.NET BUT IT IS TOO DIFFICULT TO SEARCH NOW, TO FIND ANYTHING, THE FORMAT IS UGLY. EVERYTIME I LOG ON YOU HAVE MADE SOME TERIBE NEWE CHANGE. IT WAS EXCELLENT BEFORE, NOW IT IS QUESTIONABLE - Allama Jahsun , posted 01/27/06 |
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the first thing I did was email tribe "Wade" and vent my frustration in a constructive manner. perhaps tribe should hold a reRE-design contest with prizes - Jamesfriend , posted 01/27/06 |
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there was nothing wrong with it, so why fix it. the only thing i don't like about tribe are the new tribe rules, they realy suck! - out of service , posted 01/27/06 |
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The new tribenet look makes myspace look attractive & user friendly. The ads were unavoidable but they could be made much less intrusive. - Shayin , posted 01/27/06 |
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the reddish orange color is annoying. i haven't been on tribe very much since they changed it. - Unsubscribed , posted 01/27/06 |
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between the horrid design changes, the missing functions, the now ubiquitous ads, and caving in to the Bush regime's 2257 censorship campaign, Tribe has gone from a valuable and interesting service to just another crappy website. =( - Lucky , posted 01/27/06 |
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they need to evaluate making it more user friendly. - Unsubscribed , posted 01/27/06 |
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and check your settings with Mozilla..they don't work - Unsubscribed , posted 01/27/06 |
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This is just the worst version of tribe yet. It's like all the good parts from the past versions have been removed and I haven't been able to discover the good parts of this version yet. However, the one good thing is that I spend very little time on tribe now. - ★ÅTTILÅ★ / , posted 01/27/06 |
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How can this be considered an inprovement? Less attractive, harder to use, fewer features, hard on the eyes, it is hard to believe that the "powers that be" would have bought this change in the first place but in the spirit of George Bush, they will not change it back or admit any mistakes.... way to go! - Teresa , posted 01/27/06 |
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I don't know how much longer I can tolerate all of the gentrifying changes with Tribe. First the format changes....then the advertisements.....and now a totally new sucky format. Soon we'll be getting announcements that Tribe is going to be purchased by Disney. If they don't simplify Tribe then as far as I'm concerend they're going mainstream and we might as well start our own Tribe analog. - Dan , posted 01/27/06 |
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Whoa hey Tribe team, this new version kinda looks like a "happy meal". Know that I totally appreciate the team trying to upgrade but there was no need to make it so bright and what's with the print being so small...don't ya know some of us are old? LOL! Please if you can listen to your Tribesters and cut us a little break. How about some soothing colors and a little larger print. Please. Once again thank you for trying. Peace, L - Lisa , posted 01/27/06 |
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this is ugly, insulting and degrading to the type of community we are gathering on the internet. Try hiring a real ARTIST if you want to try to change the look while slipping in more corporate adds, you sell-outs. be a little respectful of aesthetics - and look that word up in the dictionary, cause you certainly don't know what it means! - Mandai , posted 01/27/06 |
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I've been pretty tolerant up until now, but WTF? This "clean look" basically renders the home page a useless mess. Isn't there a community site that /works/ anymore? - mike
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I don't like the new look at all. I feel confused about how to use it and the colors are not pleasing to the eye. Lets go for an artsy, more creative style but this feels way too commercial! - Kristi , posted 01/26/06 |
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The new site sucks. I use it a lot less, it's confusing, and it still loads slow. - Sean , posted 01/26/06 |
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Let this be an example to show how resistent we are to change. I have to say I did like the old version better, but I am trying to adjust to this one. Do I have a chioce??? what's up with this ratings crap, what are you really gonna do about it, or do you really like to listen to all of us bitch and moan? ~mary - mAry , posted 01/26/06 |
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Remember when *they* switched the Coca-Cola formula to "New Coke", and everyone flipped? It wasn't that the old Coke was so great, but after the switch everyone screamed "my God, this sucks! Switch back NOW, or we'll blow your house down!" And after a short time they did, everyone rejoiced, and Coke sales were thru the roof, bigger than ever. So that's what tribe's doing: they re-created the site so that most every part of it is inferior to the previous version, then after a lot of squaking by all the members, they'll switch it back and listen to all of us say "thank you oh thank you kind sirs!" and tribe.net will be bigger than ever. At least, I *hope* that's what they're doing... - D Love , posted 01/26/06 |
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Kinda shocked at the crappy product you just handed us. I hope you are actually listening to the TRIBE users when they say the new version sucks because I have to agree. I haven't really been on TRIBE much these days, whereas before, I was a pretty regular user. Don't know how much I'll be using THIS version. Thanks for all the hard work you guys did. It's just too bad that the finished product is banal, plain, annoying and generic. Better luck fixing it or reverting it back to its original version, which compared to this ROCKED!!! - Kalla B , posted 01/26/06 |
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Thinking with your wallet, huh Tribe? I cannot stress enough what the others have complained about and express how completely, thouroughly and utterly you have let down your community. BAD MOVE. This will just be adverts soon....That and the sound of crickets as your members abandon you as you have them. Shame. - Alexiis , posted 01/26/06 |
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ummm really what were ya'll thinkin'??? Cartoony shmoony. Where's the vest? This new set up doesn't pass the test!! - Berlin , posted 01/26/06 |
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What else could possibly motivate you (Tribe) to do something so clearly reviled by your beloved constituency. I know some of the people who were involved in Tribe early on, and they all rock. Who the hell is at the helm now? All I can say is that I have come to value this site as a way to connect with my people, but I am starting to look into other options. My tribe just might be packing up camp and moving on... - Kristina , posted 01/26/06 |
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It's really a shame that tribe feels the need to listen to it's advertisers over it's members!! Because once you lose your members you will then lose your advertisers anyway! And then your greed will cause you to go bankrupt! Really a shame that you will have to crash in flames so quickly like that! We liked you, we loved you!!! Now we Loathe you!!!! Now where am I going to spen all my time? Actually working now I guess!! Thanks for helping make my work ethic much better, I am sure my boss likes you now!!! - Shadow , posted 01/26/06 |
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The one thing I really like about the new version: the majority of the screen real estate is taken by content. Before less than 1/3 of the width was the actual content. The rest was columns of "other stuff". That was especially frustrating when reading discussion threads. But just about everything else in the new version is bad. The color scheme, the front page, etc. I especially dislike that they got rid of (or hid) the feature that made Tribe unique -- the ability to say "search for stuff, but only show things with x degrees of connection to me" in just about any section. There is some implication that many of these things will be customizable in the future. If I could customize my color scheme and what content is displayed on my home page, I'd be reasonably happy with it. I've heard these things are in the works. I say -- until you actually have them, don't launch the product! Stick to the old version. - Jim , posted 01/26/06 |
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I can seem to find anything anymore. It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks!!!! Can you please go back to the old way or at least improve on it slowly? -S - Sausan , posted 01/26/06 |
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I only log on now and then anymore to see if they changed back. Tribe was an all too brief shining moment of clarity for community. So sad it's over. But at least the advertisers are happy and, after all, isn't keeping advertisers happy the reason for living? I know that's the only reason I watch TV or go to a movie. If only I could let them paste ads all over my bedroom walls <sigh> then they'd really be happy. And whats with all this patterning and color on my clothing!? I would look so much nicer if I could dress in company logos exclusively. - Dennis , posted 01/26/06 |
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It makes me feel like I'm caught in a blizzard. 15 minutes is all I can take before I start going snow-blind. - Dancing Eyes , posted 01/26/06 |
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Specifically because of the irritating in-your-face ads and the horrible bright-white "internet dating" look of the new Tribe, you will rarely see me here these days. I used to enjoy checking tribe and exploring, now I peek in only on occasion, shudder, check a post or two, and turn it off. I used to occasionally follow an ad--but never any more. And when an ad pours out sound I turn off the whole thing immediately. This was an extremely bad choice. I hope someone out there has the skills to start a new and independent tribe where we can connect without the commercialism. - Sabine , posted 01/26/06 |
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feels common and unoriginal - attributes i wasn't exactly in the market for. why fix it if it ain't broke? disappointing. there is no flow whatsoever. - andrea , posted 01/26/06 |
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Get rid of the bubbly graphics and wasted space. Stop trying to fix all the things that work fine and ignore those that don't. - daxle , posted 01/26/06 |
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I am blinded by the white!! This hurts my eyes to look at.... I liked the old version. Oh the pain... the PAIN! - Miss Postmortem , posted 01/25/06 |
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Tribe seems to be going downhill pretty fast, first the dictatorial censorship of what originally seemes to be a free community space....(although I must say that a lot of the stuff previously allowed gave me the creeps. How may penis and boobs photos on profiles did we need to be subjected to?) And now this awful design, relentless marketing , and confusing layout. Tribe, listen to your audience, and be humble enough to adapt..... - Xena , posted 01/25/06 |
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Low down and on the d.l. tip~ We don't want yuppie artist lofts. We want the underground~ - Carlos , posted 01/25/06 |
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I'm bummed, too. I can understand why they had to put the ads in, but I thought the old version was more user-friendly. The programmers must have lost some features I liked using, because I can't find them! :( - zenutopia , posted 01/25/06 |
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Though I was never really all that attached to the site to begin with, I have noticed a distinguished shift in energy to a lower vibration. I was attracted to this site by the enormity of Spiritually minded, Deeply Passionate, Divinely Inspired, and outwardly honest and Soulful population that reside here. I was sure that the same vibration was held by its creators, but there seems to be something else at play causing these rifts. I am more so disturbed by the fact that much of the negative attention is directed at someone who shares my first name! I feel it and I don't like it! - Unsubscribed , posted 01/25/06 |
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Diluted. - Luke aka saQi , posted 01/25/06 |
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or for the new setup. It's not growing on me as I had hoped it would. - spank_me_plz , posted 01/25/06 |
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yes, the color scheme is pretty horrid, but my biggest complaint is actually the browsing. whereas before, you could see everything in one place, now certain things are truncated or mixed up in such a way that the information on the "main" user page is just a jumbled mess. i used to be able to see all of my friends' recent blog posts in one space, but now all of that is mixed up with their listings and reccomendations and events . . . and _forget_ about looking at info on the tribes. yes, i realize that you can see _just_ threads, or _just_ listings at once, but it was rather nice to have all of that recent information on one page, rather than having to tab through several in order to see everything that's new. in the meantime, why can we no longer see _all_ of our tribes on the main user page? i don't know about anyone else, but for me, the tribes that have the smallest number of new posts are the ones i'm reading the most frequently . . . the very same ones that are truncanted on my main page. that's absolutely useless to me. as for profiles, now things are squished so that things are narrower, so if your name exceeds a certain amount of space [or characters], you just don't get to have your whole handle on your own usepage? before, it would at least start a new line in that case, but now, not so much. on my profile, i'm missing two characters off the end of my handle because the view is so inflexible. giving us a userpage that has a layout similar to the profile page seems to have been the goal in mind with these changes, but because they're inflexible, users are unable to make tribe into something that works for them. please bring back our tribe to us. hell, maybe you could even offer the different site layouts to us so that we could choose which one we want to use! at least then, you'd have a clearer idea as to what people truly do prefer instead of simply seeing a ton of dissent and that's all. then you could phase out the lesser-used version and improve on the prefered one! say you'll do it for all of us who are frustrated with this new look! please? ~e. - .erinnn. , posted 01/25/06 |
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i was just checking into myspace and all that and was telling peeps how much hiper this site is- oh no- now i get on and it looks like some generic kmart version...WHY!!!!! - elaquinn , posted 01/25/06 |
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I likewise told Tribe this new version was awful during the Beta; the color scheme alone is the virtual equivalent of flourescent lighting. Since they didn't listen, all I can say, is, vote with your feet. if the numbers go down far enough (fewer minutes spent on tribe), they my finally take notice. In the meantime, be thankful that the operators have collectively flung us all into Tribe Detox. Not such a bad thing... - Jewel , posted 01/25/06 |
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I was one of the Beta testers. We've been telling Tribe for weeks how bad this design is, and they haven't listened. They just rolled it on out anyway. Don't look for them to change it back. They're trying to Disney-fy the site to attract bigger advertisors, and they honestly don't care what we think, beyond making some superficial changes and fixes. - Tim , posted 01/25/06 |
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If they had changed *just* the colors, I might have been able to live with it. I don't really have time (or the patience) to go trying to figure out new navigation on a site. Change it back! - Larissa , posted 01/25/06 |
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The sheer number of people sounding off about how much they don't like the new look is amazing. Wade and crew: are you listening?? Please change the layout back. - Sanjay , posted 01/25/06 |
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I'm sure there were many meetings had. I'm sure the intention was to make the new look MORE appealing, MORE user-friendly, MORE intuitive and MORE capable of blending advertising with site content. I'm sure in the meetings this all sounded possible, and even as the testing was occurring the tribe staff was talking amongst themselves trying to get pumped up by the new user interface. What I'm trying to say is that I am sure this was planned and there are good intensions behind these changes, but the end result is an un-useable site. It's too bad, I like tribe. If it's possible, please go back. - m. , posted 01/25/06 |
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Yes I agree with most other tribers. Too hard to get around. I like the older version. Only good thing is I found my OTHER mail box. Go back ..... PLEASE!!!! - BASS KIDD , posted 01/25/06 |
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whoever you are, get your act together :) i remember the first day ads appeared, i thought it was the begining of the end of tribe :) - Unsubscribed , posted 01/25/06 |
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What a horrific change...you know, it looks so...corporate now. I mean, yes, better than myspace.com, BUT there you can have music and tone down the colors. The having to use the forward/back buttons is also NOT an additional pleasure. I got the e-mail about "customization" as well....we shouldn't all have to customize to avoid having our retinas burnt by white screen with red accents..did Jack and Meg White design this? - Rom Deussen , posted 01/25/06 |
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cause with one simple add placed all over this site I could steal tribe's entire (almost) userbase in one fell swoop. Why you ask? Because I'm a people pleaser and as long as its doable and legal I would listen to my customers and change my product to suit their needs. I don't know the answer, but maybe if you looked at your users art work you'd have more of a sence of what type of aesthetic they are looking for. I feel like I should be checking the prices on diapers for my baby on this site, not looking for freinds and it is not more user friendly. It's PITA to navigate. The side bar is the only good thing on here. You should prolly do something we ask before someone steals your userbase right out from under you. Good luck with that, E - Ethereal , posted 01/25/06 |
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Don't like it. Don't wan't it. The plus side is that I do realize there is a world outside my computer, because tribe is too difficult to cope with as it stands. - SpaceCadet , posted 01/25/06 |
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I TOTALLY APRECIATE HAVING TRIBE & I LOVE IT...AT LEAST IS NOT SPONSORED BY FOX NEWS LIKE OTHER SITES...(my sapce for example!) NO OFFENCE MY TRIBE MAKER FRIENDS...BUT THE COLORS ARE UM..KINDA WEIRD FOR SUCH A SITE LIKE THIS...Other than that, thank you! - ZitLaLiX , posted 01/25/06 |
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...to get the content you actually want from tribe. I get less intrusive onscreen spam from yahoo groups. That is sad. I really want to enjoy tribe, but even with that desire firmly in place, it's difficult for me to slog through the site. It's hard for me to imagine a new user enjoying the site. It's sad to see my friends driven away from the site. These changes are even more frustrating when basic functionality that can be found almost anywhere else is lacking: e.g. the ability to "previous" and "next" through messages in threads, or even the ability to explore listings by friends beyond those on the home page. - Hen , posted 01/25/06 |
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Nope. Dont like it. Too bland, poor set-up, hate the home page, dont like how mails are set up, dont like that the buttons are all spread out on the bottom like that....I could go on....truly disappointing. - ॐ*DayStar*ॐ , posted 01/25/06 |
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The bad: The colors are a bit to bright for my liking. Hopefully, things will be a lot better when they get customization in the mix. The good: I think the new layout is a cleaner and less cluttered. It only also only took me a few minutes to figure out how to navigate everything. Possible changes: In the posts in individual tribes make the reply to certain people more apparent like some type of angle line thing. Also make the posts have multilple pages after say 50. After 80 or so it crashes my browser. - Major , posted 01/25/06 |
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In the rating should be a 0 for NOT WORTH A PENNY!!! It is HURTS; my eyes, head and soul!!!! All I can see is the corporate AD and AD HUUUUU. it is loosing what trbe is meant to be. Please let us know if we are part of some money making deal!!!! I think you should listen to the tribe members..since we are the one's who logs on. ****FIVE STARS FOR THE OLD TRIBE - Julia , posted 01/25/06 |
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i'm lost in a scary bright mall....but it's a big Target mall...and i used to feel so safe and now i feel like an autistic kid without a schedule..lost in a blinding web of confusion....AKA=NOT GOOD! this sucks Wade....CHANGE TRIBE BACK....PLEEEAAAASSEEEEEE! - Mia Donna , posted 01/25/06 |
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This is just terrible. Besides searing my retinas with the blinding white, they took away all of my favorite features. I can no longer see a list of my friends' blogs on my homepage, I can no longer see a list of the events happening this week on my homepage, and there is nowhere on Tribe where I can see a list of the events I have posted so that I can update them. These are all the things I used to like about the last interface, so they took them away. Every time I log on, my avatar is invisible again, no matter which picture I choose. But of course, we have to put up with these changes so that they can make more money off of their flash cockroach ads. They have standards, you know! - Bonnie Margay , posted 01/25/06 |
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i don't get it why tribe has for at least the 4th time changed its basic navigational logic completetly. Just as we got used to one scheme, comes the next. and each time, it gets worse. i am seriously thinking of deleting my account as I feel that this site is less about us users and more about them adverstisers. - ar¡s , posted 01/25/06 |
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Confusing, illogical, ugly........IT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Isaac , posted 01/25/06 |
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I didn't really like it before and I don't see much difference. If you are going to make changes do something really drastic and impress the fuck out of me! - Nalyd , posted 01/24/06 |
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I was way disappointed! The new look sucks. - suzanne , posted 01/24/06 |
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The new version sucks. I wrote in to complain and was told that "customization" would solve everything. Here's a wacky idea...why not introduce customization first, before making the site look like ass? Very unfortunate, because Tribe *was* by far the best site of its kind. What now? Go to MySpace? Brr. - Unsubscribed , posted 01/24/06 |
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new version is aweful, has a sterile, hospital feeling, and I know that isn't what our community is all about. we want color and life, not the brink of death - palinor , posted 01/24/06 |
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If Wade likes mango slices and coco rice, when he sells out this, his soul, his dessert will forever taste like pavment, and his face will be forgotten, and his friends will leave him to tampon smoking mafia who hate. Tribe is a treasure that is loosing it's beauty for booty. Instead, Tribe should become the buyer of all the others and a co-generator of content for the web, where being a member becomes an economic blessing rather than a tasteless heartbreak. - Michael , posted 01/24/06 |
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Tribe Creator, Thank You for creating such a powerful revolutionary tool! i need to say a few things... Regarding the new Tribe look and structure and enforcements: I feel like i just walked into a sterile white-walled hospital. The aesthetic here is hard on my eyes. C'mon Tribe creator, Do you remember when you announced to yourself just a few years ago that you would not 'sell out'? Are you really gonna do it now? hmmmm... Tribe creator, I am so very thankful for what you have created here for us loverz on the cusp of an ever-expanding human bubble! You did it! You succeeded...Yay! But these recent changes leave me feeling crinkled. I'll get beyond it and I'll move on if I need...but I want to continue here with you Where did my community board go? The community board was what i adored most about Tribe.com The most glaringly painful blow to my reality was the removal of the community message board...which used to be the first thing I'd see after logging into Tribe. You helped us connect on this left coast of north America...and...around this planet. Do you know how excited I felt when I saw what was going on in my community? You invented a marvelously powerful tool! You created a revolutionary tool! Now I see: "My Tribes" and "My Friends" and "Posts from my friends" Thank You! But I want to see what is going on beyond my immediate friends. That's how we expand beyond our immediate connections...by peeking into the periphery, you know I felt so engaged in my community. I once interacted with people who were not yet my familiar friends...those who offered something to my community...and I interacted with people who were acquaintances...or soon to be friends. I did like seeing what was going on in my community. Thank You! But where did the community message board go? And what about all this new censoring of the human body?? I know you know that censoring of the human body is a crooked (ie un-aligned) assertion by those who want to assert moral authority...rooted in the invention of a religion. You know this. What is this about? Was this new enforcement made to thicken your bottom line...for profits?? Look how good you have it now! I empower you to look around you. Look at the beauty you have created. Look at all the people who admire you for what you have created! Do you want to invert such a beautiful creation? Will such an inversion haunt and harden you?? What happened, Tribe creator? Really... what happened? Did you forget something? I won't give up on you just yet...because it is so glaringly obvious what integrity you embody beyond this temporary layer of (you know what) ... Tribe creator, are you gearing up to sell you site to another buyer / corporation? Since you now seem to have you advertisements in full sail operation, perhaps you are 'cleaning' this site up a bit so that you can sell to the highest bidder...or perhaps you already have a bidder in mind. Most of us do no object to advertising because you deserve financial reward. I heard Rupert Murdoch recently purchased, for about $580 million, the firm that runs the Myspace.com online community. Will Tribe.com and Myspace.com merge? Or...Does Tribe.com simply want to gather more advertisers by offering a more palatable and main-stream platform? hmmmm? (give a kid a yummy lolly-pop...then after a few licks...take it back and hand him a cube of sugar) ahhhhh shux! ... You invented a revolutionary tool. Thank You! I won't give up on you just yet I will hold space for you to stand in your integrity - La , posted 01/25/06 |
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already emailed my bit the the de-signers...agree with the rest of y'all - m , posted 01/24/06 |
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I don't mind the new look as much as others here.. however if so many ppl are dissatisfied, why noone is doing anything about it? - Khan , posted 01/24/06 |
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I nearly had an anxiety attack trying to figure out this mess of a new lay out!!! It is far too confusing...aggravating...cluttered...and just plain unattractive. Please...for my sanity (and I'm sure many others) change it back!!! Thank you. - Annie...
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I've been here for several months now but have never posted anything-- I certainly didn't think my first post would be to say YUCK!!! - Annette , posted 01/24/06 |
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1) large add's in the middle of threads 2) poor interface 3) not user friendly - Unsubscribed , posted 01/24/06 |
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This reminds me of when I worked for government agencies for many years. It seems that they kept "fixing" things until they no longer worked at all. - BadDog , posted 01/24/06 |
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i just got my 1st computer ever and was really looking fwd to having tribe as a tool now instead of just visiting it from my friends computers. but nooooo! i have to say it's too ugly and confusing for me to even want to use it now. BLAGH! - gypsy , posted 01/24/06 |
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and it was such a great networking, event and information sharing site... please change back. - Annie , posted 01/24/06 |
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could this thing be any more cluttered right now? really? hate the teeeeny tiny font, hate the ginormous menu down the side of the screen, blech. that about sums it up. and goodness, i'm not even geriactric, i sudder at the thought of even trying to look at this monstrous page were my eyes any poorer! - teakitty , posted 01/24/06 |
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New version sucks. Yuck. I can't find shit and it takes forever when I finally do. - :Seda: , posted 01/24/06 |
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I understand that the system errors lately are due to functions being switched over and set for the new format - and I would be much more patient with that IF I was happy with the changes made thus far. For months now we have been receiving emails about the changes coming and then one day - I logged on and an old friend had undergone surgery worse than the jobs done on Jacko! Photos are small and when you click to enlarge they are grainy and blurred; as so many have said - really who designed the new graphics - more so - what target audience was in mind at that meeting?? I am certain that if polled the tribe users would say that this "upgrade" was a BIG step down. - StarBurst , posted 01/24/06 |
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then i wouldn't have put even a one, except that it is necessary to post. if were rating the post, then i give it a 10, in agreement. THIS SUCKS. and i already did reactivate other accounts, and now barely use this nightmare of a web design. i do hope some one with influence reads this or i suspect the activity on this service will dwindle. did walmart purchase TRIBE? - Unsubscribed , posted 01/24/06 |
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not only does it look bad, it is difficult to read and has too much clutter. let us have the option of the old version, and see how many people choose the new one. - butter girl, dove... , posted 01/24/06 |
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It looks very commercial. Sort of like how I would Imagine Costco's website. Nah, I like the old version much better. - Yaan , posted 01/24/06 |
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