I know it's been a while since you heard from me, but there's a very good reason for that. I've been very busy working on a complete rewrite of the tribe.net application and a restructuring of the tribe.net backend! Basically, we're upgrading some of our applications used to bring tribe.net to you, and we're working on the actual code that runs tribe.net to bring it a little more up-to-date with what is out there right now. When I say we, I actually mean we this time -- I've assembled a crack team of engineers and QA folks to assist me in this rewrite. If you're interested in helping out and know PHP, Ruby on Rails, subversion, XHTML, HAML, RHTML, AJAX and/or Python then message me!

This never could have happened without our premium memberships. As a reward for that, our 1500 premium members will be the first folks allowed onto the new servers once we have the beta site running. Our current ETA for launching beta-testing of tribe.net 3.0 is early July. I'll let you know if anything changes here on the company blog.

If you'd like to be first in line to try out the new tribe.net 3.0 beta, buy a premium membership! It's still only $5 per month, $25 per six months, and $50 per year!

P.S. T-shirts will finally arrive in the next few weeks! Hurrah!