I have to wonder. Lately I log on and rarely see new blog posts by my friends, when I used to see lots of them. The tribes I belong to that used to have a few new posts every day or two now have none. One or two tribes seem to be staying busy, but those are the exception. I've also noticed many tribes I used to check out have disappeared completely. A couple of my Tribe friends have recently blogged (when they were here) about how they're not coming here much anymore, if at all. With all the other social networks around, it seems Tribe has been passed by. And Tribe certainly hasn't helped themselves with all their downtime. Over the last year or two, I've lost count of the times I tried to view Tribe, only to get "Donut Freak Out" or "Tribe is down for unscheduled maintenance." Uh huh. So Tribe has only hurt themselves with all this downtime. They seem to have gotten their downtime stuff straightened out, but now nobody cares.

It's too bad really. This used to be a fun place. But like all things Internet, things have changed. Back ten or twelve years ago, newsgroups were all the rage online. Most people have passed those by in favor of mailing lists, social networks and the like. Unless things change dramatically soon, I suspect Tribe will become one of those Internet "relics," things that were once fashionable but have gone out of style. Just like Netscape, Gopher, Archie, WebCrawler and countless others.

Perhaps it is time to move on.