In the summer of 2008, Tribe experienced frequent down time and technical difficulties making it inaccessible to their users, sometimes for periods as long as 24 hours. Tribe promises a full redesign of their site which will alleviate these problems, scheduled to launch in August or September of 2008. As of September 5, 2008, www.tribe.net no longer exists.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe.net]
I just did a "ping", but the domain could not be resolved, that is, it is no longer listed, so apparently it does not exist anymore. I mean it's gone, the whole domain.
This place is confusing, my new 'ning-tribes' don't show up in my 'social networks'. Will get used to this though, who knows, one day.
Interesting though is that the wiki page is turning into a messsage board that's being updated with the latest news: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe.net
Wiki as a source of news... go figure!
I am so glad I never paid for Tribe. I was thinking about it when that option was first introduced, but honestly, Tribe is down more than its available...and now...it's just GONE! It's kinda creepy seeing an entire network disappear. I wonder if this is it or Tribe will eventually be back up. 4 days of nothingness and counting!