Yesterday afternoon it appears that Tribe was hit by a denial of service attack. We are aware of a number of minor scripting attacks that have caused some inconvenience recently, such as generating spam messages or creating huge numbers of tribes as quickly as the server will allow, but this was very unusual.

Denial of service attacks are difficult to defend against and even massively scaled systems become unavailable during the attacks. We are working on our hardware and software configuration to minimize our exposure and recovery time in the future.

If you continue to experience problems logging in and navigating the site, please first try restarting your browser to clear the old session state data. In almost all cases this will fix the problem and allow you to resume using Tribe normally. Please write to help@tribe.net if you're experiencing any other difficulties with the site.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,
Tribe