new tribe look
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this only works 'cause it's free. and even then... blah. - Unsubscribed , posted 02/09/06 |
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I'd have given it a zero, but that wasn't an option. Pheh.... it's awful. harder to navigate, and no new benefits. just new stuff I don't like. - Ms. K , posted 02/09/06 |
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Things have changed.Thats the nature of life.I agree with 95% of what folks have posted on this subject b4 me.But at this stage I dont expect the old design to return.Im just glad that most of the old style content that I used befor is still here.Ill try to make the most of the "new tribe". - Alt , posted 02/05/06 |
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It is so sad...like toyotas trying to look like mercedes and mercedes trying to look like toyotas...tribe has become friendster in the blink of an eye...it so sux. ;< - Venus , posted 02/03/06 |
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I don't understand why they would make tribe worse and less appealing to it's user base. NOw it just looks like one of any hundreds of other myspace-esque websites. le-sigh - Pavlos , posted 02/01/06 |
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The layout is kind of easy to follow, yet there is this fragmentation I feel from it. The old one flowed much better. - Unsubscribed , posted 02/01/06 |
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Hopefully some web designing team lost their jobs. - Unsubscribed , posted 02/01/06 |
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but I'm not that thrilled with the functionality (or lack there of) now - shenanigans , posted 02/01/06 |
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At least with the old one you could check for new posts by scrolling and din't need to click. It's just way too 'IN YOUR FACE'. - Rage , posted 02/01/06 |
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I hate it, it looks like a hospital where is the funk and why should I keep this going it sucks to come to Tribe anymore. I find myself using it less and less. I'm thinking very seriously of dumping the tribe or at the very least staying away from it and just letting it stay as is. Yuck! I cannot even stand to look at all this whiteness and sterile crap it hurts. TH - Thomas , posted 02/01/06 |
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also is it just me or does the website choke firefox if you leave it up for awhile? I think it's something to do with the ads. - Binary , posted 02/01/06 |
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I'm with the school of thought that says the recent tribe changes are just a smoke screen to all the 'selling out' cr@p that has been going on lately. It's hard to blame just tribe though when so many of us are enabling them through continued use of their site. Who knows what they are doing with our information? For that matter who knows what OTHER groups with our information is doing with it? My solution? Remain as ambiguous as possible. *looks in the mirror* Filthy stinking enabler! - Robin , posted 01/31/06 |
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one thing i really don't like is how now when you go to your tribe homepage the local listings aren't there. this was a really cool feature of old tribe. i think the new look is more "professional" but garish. i hope someone who can do something about it actually reads these reviews. - Shonna , posted 01/31/06 |
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i personally felt that the old page had some really difficult navigation quirks to it and it wasnt really that easy to navigate until you trial-& errored your way through. more of the same. nowdays, the wway the web comes through dynamic content management, therre is no reason that we shouldnt be able to change the way the skin look s to us as individual users, in the same manner as the way we can change the backgrounds on our user profiles. simple as that. listen to the users - Mythril , posted 01/31/06 |
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I don't check out the side nearly as often, as I don't like the red bubbles, especially as they are all bumping around and not linear and easy to use. Really unpleasant. - Alcina , posted 01/31/06 |
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This is insane and straight up disrespectful to the loyal users who made Tribe so unique and cool. It is like forcing someone to walk around wearing a huge label on their chest like Calvin Klien or something. Shame on them, whom ever they are. Why would you give a loyal customer aspartame when you know they came to your shop because you use to carry agave nectar? Insane !!...it's a damn shame. - Unsubscribed , posted 01/30/06 |
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here come the tentacles of the corporate fucking machine...gggiddy up y'all...but mostly it's just ugly, oh yeah, and stupid too - Theotch son of Be... , posted 01/30/06 |
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it doesn't appear that anybody is paying attention to the fact that we all hate this new site, but here it is again. Dude, this SUCKS. Change it back! - Meadowgirl , posted 01/30/06 |
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Until someone can find something better - this really isn't the worst thing in the world. Still provides the same service~ - Unsubscribed , posted 01/30/06 |
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I feel like I just walked into my favorite underground warehouse party and discovered that they'd added red vinyl booths and linoleum floors to neaten things up for some kind of conference of Midwestern McCompany CEO's... And they shifted everything 20 degrees to the left so that we can't find anything...I don't like it at all. Are they trying to keep up with mainstream sites like Friendster? I'm going to write to Wade and tell him to ck. out this stream of rants and raves about what's up with this site. - Superagent , posted 01/30/06 |
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succckkkkssss!!!! where is every thing??..has tribe.net sold its soul to the corporate pigys?? ulgy red pictures oo. - Gin , posted 01/30/06 |
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I agree it sucks! I use to be on here everyday, several times a day, now I can't be bothered as it's much more difficult to check things out and navigate. Sometimes people think fancier, flashier, state of the art is better, but it's not. Still happy it's free, but unhappy it sucks. - Rachel , posted 01/30/06 |
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LAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Unsubscribed , posted 01/30/06 |
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this new layout is teh suck!! - Unsubscribed , posted 01/30/06 |
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the new tribe looks like a luther vandross song... uh... just so you know, i hate luther vandross! squee - Squee , posted 01/30/06 |
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complicated, fucked up, confusing...how do i navigate now?? where has everything gone??? events?? lame... - Taylor~Maiden~Space , posted 01/29/06 |
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Tribe.com, I'm gonna try to be constructive here. So lemme break it down like this... Old look: Events for example: I used to be able to look up what events My Friends had posted for Tonight. New look: Now I have to dig through Everything Everyone has posted for a Two Week Period. To summarize: I think that the convience of the old look was much more valuable to me than the added sexyiness of the new site. And it isn't even that sexy. I don't need a sexy site. For god sake man! Leave the being sexy to the professionals. There are many fine users of this site who are extremely sexy. I dare say MUCH sexier than you-- tribe. You know it's kinda sad really. You were good enough allready. But then you got all big and your ego grew faster than you were ready for, so then you got insecure. But this is like getting a really bad nose job to make yourself feel better. You know who else did that... Michael Jackson Sputnick II over and out. - EnthusiAdam! , posted 01/29/06 |
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Is this the tribalization of the mainstream or the mainstreaming of the tribe? the conspiracy theorist in me feels a smoke screen.... maybe they have us distracted by all this eshetic crap while they sell our personel info to the highest bidder... We give these corporate bastards too much power just by using thier service and yet the convienience it provides eggs us on. By giving us google they gave us an oracle... but in return we gave them our questions.... the only thing more valuable to the establishment than information is a flag to which of it is of interest. The corporation so happily provides this wonderful tribe.net service, allows us to catalyse our little revolution through networking and publicity. They also track our interests and associations, even our planning and organization is all documented and data searchable on line.... before you worry about how it looks ask yourselves this question.... is this service for us? or for THEM... - Spoon , posted 01/29/06 |
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i find the new design hurts my eyes, personally i hate white backgrounds. I often use a deep, black, grey or muted jewel-tone colour behind text and find it much easier to read. Tribe admins, do you actually sit in front of pure white screens all day? if so it has warped your minds. I don't think the new design is 100% bad, but it really does generate a vaccuum. give us the option to switch to a black background-type navigation, just like the ones available for my profile (could you come up with some new designs for those while you're selling my screen real estate?) get back to work guys!! - Roland - Stickshift , posted 01/29/06 |
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the new design is both unusable and ugly. everyone, lets keep our eyes open for a true community-run alternative and abandon this corporate crap as soon as there is a viable alternative. - Notecrusher , posted 01/29/06 |
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when the new tribe look was in beta, we could sign in to either version. why can't both versions (or More) continue to be available simultaneously? every one could just sign in to the one they like the most.... - r e n é , posted 01/28/06 |
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if it means fixing the photo albums so that you can open a picture, go back, hit the next button on the picture albums, and it go to the next page in the photo album, then no it is not an improvement - bubbles , posted 01/28/06 |
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too white!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - nikkrokk , posted 01/28/06 |
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but all of the functionality is still here. I guarantee we'll get full control over the layout and design in good time. in the meantime - let's use it for what it is and ignore the rest, eh? - O , posted 01/27/06 |
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wow. I had no idea something once so cool could stoop so low. this is the ugliest layout I've seen for any professionally-designed webpage. So not DIY. So commercial. This does not represent me, nor do I ever ever want it to. - Kezia , posted 01/27/06 |
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huh? so...it's confirmed...we all hate it. so why are you not changing it back? wtf? it obviously sucks! i'm going back to myspace now.... - Unsubscribed , posted 01/27/06 |
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I have to agree that this page is any thing but user friendly. As far of the over all design is concerned it lacks any type of creativity. Lets start using the old system again. - Todd , posted 01/27/06 |
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its very appalling..... and its ugly...... - ocean ulantiastud... , posted 01/27/06 |
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had more options for individual expression visually and every thing posted by my friends wasn't squashed at the bottom of my page... the new version is for people who are on the computer more then 8 hours a day... meaning... you'd need to be on the computer alot longer to get the same info that was easily found on the last version of tribe... yet... I am grateful that tribe is free and that I am still able to keep in contact with all the people and tribes I am interested in... even if it does take longer to find out what they're up to. - bLIZArd , posted 01/27/06 |
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ok, looks like they got the wording right on this one. one star = heave and five stars = great look... so i'm thinking it's heave. the muppets heaving pretty much says it all. and what's with muppets anyway? do the TOU say we should be eighteen to participate? if so, why the little muppet kids representing members? the new changes are disturbing, but we're creating a new world within it. so fuck it... we'll endure and, as the muppets once famously sang, "hope that somethin' better comes along..." in the meantime, i raise a glass, not to the new look or the two red headed muppet step-twins of satan, but rather, TO US!!! for being so bright, vibrant and beautiful! - Shady , posted 01/27/06 |
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depending on what side of that mirror you glance from everything can be either or... funny I haven't given much attention to the change of style on this website. it's effect and function is what interests me. just another pretext to exercise our ability to connect, confirm and create synchronicity and of course evolve telepathy. speaking of which as a result of that connection here I found myself in this stream of intensley opinionated perspectives about the "face" that this corporate outlet has... unable to escape the power of collective focus and attention I say YES to everything. we are all right about everything, evil-live, many ways , all ways change it if you don't like it, let's all move somewhere else, let's wage war on war, let's accept it or better not even care, but dear tribesmen of the 010101010101 nation: LET'S STAY TOGETHER!!! cause that's what it's really about, neh? keep on living and beliving and choosing evil-live up to you p.s. this look isn't great that's for sure, so what are we waiting for, let's make something better happen! cheers blue already working on option. see? seenchronicity is all ready in play peace - alexandra , posted 01/27/06 |
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I've really like Tribe in the time I've been on it. I really don't want to switch to somethign else, but I've begun looking at (and even signing up for) other services. I'll still keep my profile and tribes up here for now in hopes of PROMPT changes to a more functional layout. Don't mean to be a whiner, but it was a lot better before. - UpriverErik , posted 01/26/06 |
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Let's see how much space can be totally wasted at the top (most important) part of the screen...... ...and the Corporate® look... yuck! - Bill , posted 01/26/06 |
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I whish that things hadn't changed I never saw A need for it. and In fact our last community event was really sucsessfull I think because of the way we could spread the word and images about our coming event. It could never happen the same way. booooo bad tribies what were you trying to acomplish other than pissing us all off. - Jeremy , posted 01/26/06 |
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whatever!!! sux ass1but its free - Takuan"the pickle... , posted 01/26/06 |
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ive been using for a week and im still voting 1star in lieu of there being no option for voting zero. - blue spectral , posted 01/26/06 |
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People blame this on corporatism/capitalism... If large amounts of money were invested into the new layout I'd expect it to be sleek, sexy and ERGONOMIC, which it is not. I'm beginning to wonder if tribe has hired a bunch of chimpanzees to do their dirty work now.... - Ben , posted 01/26/06 |
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Tribe dump current mgmt policy, . . . or all supercool beings will no doubt shortly be vacating. Doesn't Tribe remember its origins? ==> Mass emigration from Friendster when they started getting corporate & clean, killing off fakesters? DUH. The old look was dense, not terribly esthetic, but totally functional. The extra white space is nice, but excessive. The logo graphics are cheesy, toss 'em. Why not have a Tribe town council? Wishful thinking, I suppose. . . Yep, there are plenty of open source programmers out there who can take everything they've learned from these examples and do it better, COOP-style. Community owned. . . Twist - cinnamon , posted 01/26/06 |
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!!!!!! HAHAHaaaaahAAAHHHAAAAAAaaaaaahaha ha!! who really gives a !@#$ lets all now move on to more important things..........like polar bear relocation programs, or maybe funding for psychedelic exploration.( yeah, more o that!) - Mercury , posted 01/26/06 |
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in my first vote i said it wasnt awful, but after some more time on here - yes awful. THE ADS ! stop the ads. they are out of hand i cant even find posts i am looking for in a tribe. also the bubbles have a teenage girly feel and the red color screams lavalife - rayann teapants , posted 01/27/06 |
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Pull apart our faces. ....let the true etheric network grow into its true form within ourselfs.... - zoriaan , posted 01/26/06 |
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Everyone is complaining about the change. I feel it is hard to change after we all got used to the other look, but i feel the other look wasn't that good either. It wasn't very managable at first but once i got using it i figured it out. I rather like some of the aspects of the new look while i dislike others. We have had ad space for a while so thats not new. Over all it is the same. I dont feel like it is corporate moving in. We are just growing so many in numbers that Tribe needs to set itself up to be able to grow and not waste energy uploading wastful info everytime someone logs in. For reals though tribe was never the best online networking site visually or functionally. It is the people that use this site that make it what it is. So if people want to switch it up then so be it but we are all here so deal with it. A new year, a new day, a new tribe. - Bosque , posted 01/26/06 |
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NO, really,,,,,why hav'nt you changed it back....?.....like really...you'll still sell ads if the design does'nt suck....probably more actually.......?....... - Jefe , posted 01/26/06 |
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Just wanted to let everyone know that we have been working hard on a new conscious social network, and will be ready to unveil the beta on February 2nd. It is being created by me and my nonprofit organization, Living Paradise, and will not have a hidden corporate agenda behind it. It is being created by people like us, for people like us, as well as to introduce tribal concepts of harmony and sustainability to a larger audience. If you would like to be notified the moment it goes live, and perhaps get a chance to help us test it out before then, please head over to www.livingparadise.org and sign up for our newletter. And, if you are a php programmer or developer, especially with Drupal experience, and you would be interested in becoming a part of our team, please contact me either here or at www.livingparadise.org. Keep the faith! We are changing the world, one moment at at time. peace and much love, blue - blue , posted 01/26/06 |
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As everyone here seems to be feeling that this new "look" sucks the big one, I don't understand why they haven't switched it back!?!?!?!?! Well I do understand, I guess as all of us are starting to understand that yup they're on to us....Damn! Wade or whomever is listening, you guys are a bunch of main stream, no good, money hungry, but heads! Sorry, I don't like calling people names but come on now. Anyway, I could get over the fact that it looks like Kaaakaaaa, but when it comes to navigating the site it really is a mess! IT was so much simpler when you could just log in and see everything happenin on one page, where's the negative star rating??? I'm sure our overall use of the site has gone down, I know my use has....ANyways fix it already you PEPSI drinking Wallmart shopping pukes! - Geno , posted 01/26/06 |
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. . . that the rating system only goes to 1. There should be some negative numbers for this "new" look. When there is a good alternative to Tribe, I'm moving there. I just hope (suggest) that is such an alternative is created that it be owned cooperatively by the members. That way there will be no need to pander to the advertising dollars by creating a site that is difficult to use and ugly simply to create more real estate for advertisers and forcing more click-throughs to get where you want to get to so that more ads need to be seen per session. - *Richard , posted 01/26/06 |
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I am not really sure this layout is worse than the last. I am having an pretty easy time finding everyone, and I am actually seeing more of what gets posted to my Tribe because the events and pics pop up in line with the topics. But... this color scheme is VERY hard on my 47 year old eyes. PLEASE go back to the tribal colors! Please!!! - Amma , posted 01/26/06 |
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When I think of tribal culture... I think Earthy... I think nature.... colour (green, brown, blue, black, violet), I think inspiring.... moving.... and motivating. I think cozy, comphy, warm, and home like. When I think of tribal culture.. I think of a place or an energy that I can't get enough of. With this new "look", I feel sterile, blinded, and very dentist-office-like.... or worse yet... I feel like I'm ACCROSS THE BORDER!!! Nooooooooooooo!!!! Good God guys... Wade... who-ever... what were you thinking? How many of the ignorant actually persuaded you into creating this eye-poison. Aye Caramba! - Seamus , posted 01/26/06 |
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This is a supreme illustration of capitalistic power dynamics. On one hand you want the people who create fantastic tools to be supported, but on the other hand we need to look at what our support is giving the creators of Tribe. Tribe is not a charitable organization, or an open source hobbyist site. It is a business that makes its money from harvesting our attenetion and selling pieces of it for profit. Our time is their money. We had some opportunity to be more involved in the support of this system when adds were first generated mostly by users. I have not seen a user generated ad in a long time, unless the CEO of Monster.com is now a user. What I hope our artist networks learn from this is that in order to sustain supreme tools for networking and communication, we need to participate with more than data. We need to feed the systems that feed us. Unfortunately, we may have reached a point where our food is not what this system is hungry for. Internet Gentrification is upon us my friends. Let's not do this again. - Osiris , posted 01/26/06 |
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wow. it took me this long to sift through it all and see what is really behind all this. i am saddened and appalled. i don't want those corporate freaks to know what i think on some of my most intimate subjects... not that some weren't here all along but now its so damn obvious. hell, they probably have plans to sell all our posts as market research. eeeewww. we need a new site run by folks who won't sell it out. this site has led to many amazing things in my life, truly unbelieveable, and the people i have met here are incredible. but i can't support a site run by someone who specializes in corporate control. more co-opting of sub-culture is all this is. aside from that, the new design totally sucks and is difficult to navigate. it is sterile and uninviting. - ra , posted 01/26/06 |
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“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." ~ Apple Computers, from "Think Different" Advertisement okay... so we have this social network we've been using for a long time and we've gotten pretty comfy with it, i know i have... this site has changed my life... but i definitely am not happy with the direction its going. take, for example, the CEO of tribe.net now, a gentleman by the name of Jan Gullett: www.zoominfo.com/Search/Pe...etail.aspx **he was vice president and general manager of PEPSI.** **he has worked for SARA LEE and PROCTER & GAMBLE.** what are they *DOING*?! quote: "We’ve had a nice compound annual growth rate for the last year now. It just remains to be seen how fast we can step on the accelerator." i can hear his thoughts... "hmmm, let's redesign the site so it looks slick and leaves lots more room for advertising, and then make everything hard to find so they have to click through lots of pages and we get paid for each one, yeah!" well... i'm going to keep my tribe.net account... but i'm also going to test the waters, so to speak. phong and sobey... both great posts. - Unsubscribed , posted 01/26/06 |
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hurts my eyes i can't stand that 'members' bubble icon photo albums don't work right it wasn't broken, why fix it? two thumbs down ... - ladỷŁala , posted 01/26/06 |
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don't like it! looks like 'just another generic' website to me...sorry, don't mean to hurt feelings of those who worked hard to create/improve it....MAYBE THAT'S IT! MAYBE THEY WORKED TOO HARD...& OVERWORKED IT!....U know...too much of anything ...is still too much.......I PREFER THE OLD LOOK.....let's have it back....PLLLLLEEEEEEASE LOTS OF LOVE & BLESSINGS, Basia - Basia , posted 01/25/06 |
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ive lost my grip on the controls i really dont know where we are any more. is that a good thing? - bambu , posted 01/26/06 |
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i can only see 8 friends on my homepage? i loved knowing who'd been on recently & see their profile. now thats' gone! i can't find anything i want anymore!! i want to see the blogs, events & listings seperated again! only a few mixed entries on my page means i can't see several blogs & be a part of my friend's lives and repsond to their posts. i can't glance at listings seperately to see who's looking for a place to live i can't see what events are coming up. took me way too long to figure out how to see MORE of these entries, more recent blogs, etc how did we take the people out of tribing??? PLEASE CAN WE MAKE IT BETTER AGAIN!??! FOLLOW THE LEAD, change your main profile pic to the pukey pic! - squishe)'(e , posted 01/28/06 |
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Wade, didn't you say that you were going to install a Hot Tub as part of the new look? I think you should also offer foot massages and chiropractic alignments. Could ya throw in a smoothy as well? I like the real fruity with a lot of ice cream! :D SA - Unsubscribed , posted 01/25/06 |
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the volume is down, blogs, tribe posts. where has everyone gone? must have something to do with this sterile new design. - Unsubscribed , posted 01/25/06 |
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I just signed up for Tribe.net two days before the change. My first impression was, Hey this feels real comfortable and I won't mind hanging out here. Then... It all changed and I am finding my way around. I agree with everyone else, even though I never got accustomed to the old ways, the feel changed to something not as comfortable. However, it still seems like a great place to network and share with people. My vote would be to go back to the old design. This one seems much too, Shopping Mall, in feel. Thanks to all the wonderful people on this site for setting the vibe and wanting to keep it. - Xaliman , posted 01/25/06 |
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i liked the old version simply cause the navigation was tight! also, too much 'white space' and these red, white and blue colors on the new version make my eyes hurt, any web designer should know this is a no no. adding to the injustice is the clinical look and feel that does not suit what 'tribe' is. laterzzzzzzzz.... - Unsubscribed , posted 01/25/06 |
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face it this was all too good to be true, and now the realities of corporate america are comming clear for us all,the whole thing has no doubt been kept track of by the feds anyways! theres enough genious minds in this comunity anyway that we should come together to create what we realy want to see, meenwhile we can all post lued naked pictures of our own icons puking all over the pentagon and the christian 4 reich most good things have to have an end... werd em up wade boy better change it up or lose us all after we star our REAL tribal tribe - Destino , posted 01/25/06 |
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for us to be getting so wronged. could it be we're amassing such a critical mass that the powers that be decided to step in and try to derail the momentum with this bad design? design conspiracies don't take the power from we who see through the commercialism with true tribalism cus there's no where to run and no where to hide and our networks are deep and cannot be divided - Sobey , posted 01/25/06 |
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we know... that we now have corporate, and governing, bodies increasingly controlled by people who claim, in cleverly contructed campaigns to be ethically and intellectually somehow so superior that their motivation should not even be questioned, to say nothing of being debated... for example, individuals or groups could call themselves "good" Americans and/or Christians... yet, when their behavior and what they actually say, is examined, in any detail at all, they are revealed to have absolutely none of the functioning qualities or ethics connected with what they claim to be...is this to be the true fate and colors flown by that once noble concept called tribe.net p.s. re: rating #1 I accept this in regard for bringing us all here to tribe, and in aknowledgment of tribe at least posting this rating query... - Azul , posted 01/25/06 |
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a question tribe.net will likely be asking themselves in the weeks to come. i have to say i am accustomed to users complaining about changes on a website. it's the norm i've come to accept that folks very often don't like change.. even on a free to use website.. and usually it is me defending the changes which was my first reaction here. but after trying to use this "new look" for a few days now i am becoming very aware that it's not just me being slow to adjust. the navigation has become so poor that i spend more time trying to figure out where i want to go than actually doing anything here. i wonder if it has anything to do with the new CEO ? onlinepersonalswatch.typepad.com/n...ml hats off to tribe.net for showing the users the potential of online social networks. too bad they dropped the ball here.. in a way it's good tho as it will only promote the next tribe.net phenomenna to do a better job. - robin , posted 01/25/06 |
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Rubbish. This is not friendster. Somethings got to shift or the end is nigh... - Wee James , posted 01/25/06 |
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And of course they even censor that. THe look is awful, red in design theory is used to instight hunger, anger, and fear. Is that the new agenda?! Luckily I have Fire Fox and can block the shitty ads but man a new low. Did they not do the market research to establish that the majority of us are Burners and fucking hate advertisments? Why change the color? Why not change the way it dumps you off the sight if you don't type a fast enough response to a post? Or use all the money they spent on the supposed upgrade (more like a down grade poindexter) to lobby against the kind of christian 4th riech bull shit that made them have to censor shit in the first place. Either way I am pretty much done with this shit. Tell Wade the people put his pink slip in the fucking mail. - Mattress , posted 01/25/06 |
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oh, all these damn corporate-y icons, far too many little things to click on, my network of folks do not pop up when i go to "my" tribe spot... i just feel that what was a functional network that i would recommend to people as, "not like myspace or friendster with all those ads and flashy crap--it's all about the community, and its real simple...." has now turned into a flashy, busy, ad-riddled website that is confusing for my eyes and looks like a corporate web designer attacked it with red paint. - salt , posted 01/25/06 |
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WHY DO WE CONFORM TO USING THIS? I'm considering leaving. I've barely used the internet in this life, and I am learning about why. Our tribe is interesting. We celebrate our love for the Earth as we hop on and off of FOSSIL FUEL guzzling AIRPLANES, VEHICLES, ETCETERA........as we utilize the latest high tech computers and music gear....etcetera. ARE WE GROUNDED? Of course, positive INTENTION is a powerfull force...although...As far as I can see, there are few humans alive at this time who are Really Grounded. I know that I have alot to learn & teach about really seriously grounding. We know that our potential is unlimited...so let's support one another with making best use of our STRONG abilities. - amy , posted 01/25/06 |
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There are so many talented people in the community at large who do beautiful web work. This site could have a gorgeous look and feel, while still being simple and easy to navigate. I agree that simplicity is great, but changing the interface the way it has been, does not make it more simple to use, let alone appealing to look at! I'm am not suprised so many people want to leave the site. If I had any back-around in web design, I would give more specific ideas. I will say this: Go back to the drawing board, get the users of the site involved, utilize the network of artists YOU have created, and get feedback BEFORE you change everything around. And if you want red so badly, give it some balancing colours to lesson the intensity. I can't help notice how much my eyes are continually wondering over to the AOL add to the right of the page on which I am typing.... Could that be because everything else is insanely white! Forcing that attention by having it be the only colouful thing on the page does not support tribal culture, it supports consumer culture. a good exaple of simple tricks of the comsumer world...How telling. Let's stick together on this, stick around and get a better tribe. net out of the whole fiasco. - Ariel , posted 01/24/06 |
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Everyday I see the number of people increase on this forum who say they hate the new look and feel of this site....do the admin. folks see this too?!? I don't mind the look of the top of the page, but functionality has been completely thrown out the window. I was just starting to really enjoy what tribe has to offer, now I just come here to see if I have any messages, and then leave right away. I have no desire to check out all the other information that could be available to me because it is just too painstaking a process. I want my old tribe back!!! -  Eden
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suck us in slowly most of the folks here are hot but not that daft please slow down the brainwashing - mike , posted 01/24/06 |
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As a web designer I know all about how people simply don't like sites to change so much... but even with that said, this isn't the normal "ugh I hate the new site.", It's actually horrible to navigate. The only reason I can see for the changes is to make more room for advertising, which is pretty lame. - saeya , posted 01/24/06 |
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this sucks - Unsubscribed , posted 01/24/06 |
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this design is not. - Unsubscribed , posted 01/24/06 |
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this layout appears to be a direct assault on what YOU KNOW the people here DONT WANT>>>so why is that????? - Unsubscribed , posted 01/23/06 |
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Can't I give tribe's new layout anything less than a single star?... welp... this just opens the door for the next great thing to come and sweep this old number under the rug... or feed it to the pop culture dogs... either way our numbers are now to great to ignore!! - beau , posted 01/23/06 |
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I just want my old Tribe.net back. We loved it the way it was before! Can you PLEASE give it back!???!!?? - NATHAN
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oh elliot! what have you done to us! the only good thing about the new look is that i was spending a little too much time tribeing. they're scareing us away. hard to believe they aren't adressing the overwhelmingly negative response... what the fuck? - judah , posted 01/23/06 |
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This is Harder to navagate.. I feal like I am in Orange County.. Where's the Wienerschnitzel!! Yuck I hate it!! - Dionysus , posted 01/23/06 |
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it reminds me of friendster. the order of the layout sucks. it's not so easy on the eyes. - Cb , posted 01/23/06 |
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this. layout. is. ass. - Unsubscribed , posted 01/23/06 |
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this new look is an assault to the senses.. new ad money with conservative/coporate agendas is implanting consumerist memes in order to commodify and co-opt our artistic sub cultures what is actually being sold is your attention ...it makes me want to run toward the nearest living thing ...and kill it. - YAN , posted 01/23/06 |
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Dude the only explaination for everything sucking on the Tribe is that maybe they are trying to tell us something that they can't come out and say. What it is is this: They are being watch by the feds so get out while you still can. While myspace sucks I think i'm gonna resurrect the old account and phase out the Tribe. Even though its kinda a comfort zone I don't need to be "matched up" with other Tribes or people. Thats wierd. So adios Tribe! This scene is beat and totally last year! - Xocolatl , posted 01/22/06 |
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i'm into icons, and i'm into interfaces. after all, the future of the net is about user connections and simplicity. i feel bad for the designer of this new look. their pain could have been avoided with a really smart response to the beta-test (i.e. people hate it...don't use it). it's clear that nearly everyone dislikes it in some range of the spectrum from mild to extreme agony. what baffles me is how it ever got approved. all i can imagine is that the people who are running the site don't really care what the users actually think. this thread is pretty revealing no? perhaps tribe.net admin should really think about the upcoming waves of user network sites and ask themselves if they really want to lose users because of a stupid design choice. phong has a point. design skins. - sijay , posted 01/22/06 |
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Red is not relaxing. blue, green, yellow, orange...pink, violet? - Amy Azume , posted 01/22/06 |
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there is just no accounting for some peoples tastes...........where is a spoon when i need it.... - maia , posted 01/22/06 |
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almost identical to the chapters.indigo.ca website. corporate ,childish,catastrophy.......... - Justice , posted 01/22/06 |
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not good. you know it, we know it, everyone knows it. the ads are awful. they get in the way of reading posts. the rebranding is for 7-14 year olds. change to something better or users will start to become a little more nomadic. - Unsubscribed , posted 01/22/06 |
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Yes, the old layout may have actually been somewhat "unsophisticated" but this new layout looks like it was done by some kid in her first year at art school Colors/fonts/graphics are way out of balance for legibility - Unsubscribed , posted 01/22/06 |
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Sorry, but the new look is just awful. It took me a long time before I found the "Your tribe.net" link, the colors are awful and the layout isn't good either. I'd say go back to the old look! - Cookie , posted 01/22/06 |
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just too pop... what guys are you trying to please the feds?! please some advertisers? what exactly? you're alienating your userbase! you can't call yourself tribal and look like this! phew! - Shiraz , posted 01/22/06 |
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Come on Tribe! Now you've stooped too low! It's bad enough having flashing, blinking advertising, let alone advertising in general, but why must you subject us to commercials, too, along with this gawd awful new look??? It makes me sick. - katherine , posted 01/21/06 |
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How....repulsive. I believe it's time for a mass exodus. Anyone? Anyone? Ok, ok.... I'll give it a VERY brief period of time to grow on me, but after that I'm going back to my old site... Why RED? Jee-bus on a pogo stick.... - Captain , posted 01/21/06 |
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blah, so corporate, so logoie. no goodness i say, no goodness - Shadarko , posted 01/21/06 |
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i think it suks and it suks too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - tre , posted 01/21/06 |
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i don't like it either i feel like i might meet my parents here... - Unsubscribed , posted 01/21/06 |
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I do not like it. maybe its one of those things Ill get over but right now I dont like it at all - Coach , posted 01/21/06 |
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This new look is garish and poor - it doesn't work for me. Why did it need to be changed? You might try another approach: taking away that bright red. It's like waving a red flag at a bull. It causes offense! Make the look softer like this: people.tribe.net/stevetuf/...889dc8e680 Enough said! Steve C - Steve C , posted 01/21/06 |
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WACK! I would rather kick it on myspace then deal with this shit.. hehehe - MAUI , posted 01/26/06 |
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why?????? - DEE , posted 01/20/06 |
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Yes, I agree with other posts declaring that this new look is extremely bland, business/corporate-like & generally "unfunky" (hey, i like that word). This a major step backwords for Tribe.net. I don't even want to be on this anymore with the new site. Why change all the navigation just when we're all used to the old one? Please try harder to keep this site uber-funky, colorful, & fun. It's a community thing yo! By staying colorful & standing out in the crowd...we create an oasis in an the evergrowing pulsations of corporate bland agendas. - Adrian , posted 01/20/06 |
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I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again... I hate the "new" look. - Emily , posted 01/20/06 |
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The only reason I gave it a one is because there isn't an option to give it a zero. Yuck. Heinous. Awful. - Avena , posted 01/20/06 |
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The original design worked despite the overtly functional colors due to it's formless nature. Besides the red text in the upper left every design element was basically it's more efficient way to create the functionality in the form of the web medium. Having no symbols other than words, it was widely accessible to many aesthetics and cultural paradigms. By creating corporate symbols, propogating the red the visual paradigm has become conditioned by a particular theme which most people not only don't relate to they despise as the vibrations reflects the very corporate culture this site acts as a counterbalance to. People want to identify with the site, they must if they're going to build their communities here and conditioning the insitution with narrow cultural symbols is like trying to slap adidas logos on tribal gear... Tribe.net should consider having the option of skins. Also dramatically changing the positions of the interface that people had become a customed to using is to water frusteration. 'Research' into design is one thing, but searching our collective soul from the inside out is the only way to design visual systems that the collective will identify with. Liberate the visual symbology or lose it... these discoordant symbols do more harm to the flow than you may realize. - phong , posted 01/20/06 |
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THe new changes are so painful. Why is it so bright and ugly? WHy does my head hurt? Why! Why! Why! - Kunzang , posted 01/20/06 |
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i hate hate hate it! i can't find anything now. it is in no way user-friendly, it's too damn bright, and it's too trendy. there was nothing wrong with the way it was before. WHY do the tribe overlords feel the need to change the layout every year or so? It was fine the way it was and I really wish they would change it back and LEAVE IT ALONE. - Kapaali , posted 01/20/06 |
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It is not Tribe anymore... totally unfunky and cookie cutter! Change it back... Please!!!!! - Paloma , posted 01/20/06 |
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The emphasis on the grey and type is soo business. Its not tribey and colourful. The ads are on the side which is why it got the 1 rating. And not that I want to see my picture so badly, but I am put in such a little box on the screen. The old tribe look was so much better. - Pamela , posted 01/20/06 |
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Ugly, confusing, disappointing... One giant leap backwards for tribekind. - Ken , posted 01/20/06 |
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Its so hard to move around and to bright and cheery - Nadira , posted 01/20/06 |
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it's difficult to navigate, unattractive, and clumsy. not that the folks at tribe care what i or you think... - squeak , posted 01/20/06 |
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Change it back! Ads stuck in the middle of messages, difficult to navigate! - Spider , posted 01/20/06 |
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it's too damn bright and cheery! i signed on and BOOM! I almost logged back onto myspace. It's gonna take some serious getting used to...ick - Jessica , posted 01/19/06 |
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The design team should be fired! All of them! - T.E. Lawrence , posted 01/19/06 |
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I like the circles at the top, but I STRONGLY suggest a balance of colours, perhaps even the primaries (blue, yellow & red). The interactivity is different and new so I'm yet to feel it out, but I think we are headed in a positive direction so long as the designer's open to change. Circles kick booty!! - Howler , posted 01/19/06 |
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It pretty much sucks, alright. I wrote in TribeIdeas how much I liked how my tribe page looked like a newspaper. It was my very own Gazette. Now I'm left with this head-splitting psychedelia. It's terrible. - LaDonna Lorcan , posted 01/19/06 |
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I want the old one back. 1, #RECENT POSTS# in tribes, Topics Should be set as DEFAULT. Put the all posts on the far right side. 2. #ACTIVE MENBERS# The mouse over option for names does not work on EI6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2. The Names should show as DEFAULT. 3, In tribe topics, I have no “view all topics” bottom, It should be there at the top and bottom of page. 4. Please return the picture box. The pictures in that box are a nice decoration to the tribe, the first thing people see as the view a tribe. It’s a hook. It’s Functional and it’s esthetically pleasing. 5.What about adding Text formatting to Tribe description area or basic HTML code, <B>, </B>, <H1>, </H1> and so on. Color would be great. 5a darker border around the sub-sections would be great. 6. #posts from my friends# should be in date order. This is just so far. I will post more as I find them. - Mike マイケル , posted 01/19/06 |
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i'm quite disgusted with the new look. it feel like it's geared toward 12 year olds. i enjoyed the more adult feel of the old layout. anyone else who's less than impressed with the new look, please join my census tribe - tribe: new and unimproved. I want to see just how many people are ticked off with this, because those of us who were used as beta testers and complained were completely ignored. tribes.tribe.net/newandunimproved - britz , posted 01/19/06 |
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well, not to be rude, but this is a big change. and i don't mind the new look...it is sleeker and more flashy, but i'm not sure if i need that. the old look was "cozier" and i just like it better. but i'm willing to give this a try. - Gemini v.2.22 , posted 01/19/06 |
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