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New Tribe Skins

2007-06-05T13:43:48Z

I'm experimenting again with tribe CSS at http://tribeskins.tribe.net/

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Mark all read

2005-08-09T21:45:47Z

get Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
get Linky
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/linky

go to 'my tribe.net',
sort tribes by new,
highlight as many neglected tribes as your machine/tribe can handle,
use context menu 'linky', 'open selected links in tabs',
get drink, fiddle with music, read comix book,
use tab context menu to 'close other tabs'.

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hiding albums with user stylesheets

2005-07-08T04:31:31Z

Some people have been complaining about the photo galleries in the tribes now showing up on the front pages. Whether you don't like the photos or just don't like the the album concept itself, you can hide that content yourself using user stylesheets. If you want to hide the photos, follow the directions below:

First, follow the instructions here to find out how to create a user stylesheet:
http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/user-style-sheets.html

and add the following css to it:

/* tribe photo album hack */

div.module_body td a img{
display:none !important;
}

#mugshot div.photo a img{
display:inline !important;
}

This'll hide the photos for the photo album. Great for using just at work, and your home machine will still show the album just fine.

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(main) image trick

2005-06-14T16:47:45Z

So I recently realized the quick way to get to a person's image. Sometimes I like to go look at the whole album, but other times I know I've seen most of the images there anyway and just want to get a better look at the current one.

In Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox (at least) you can right click on the image, and select a menu item like 'View image'. This will take you to an image ending in .thumb or .mugshot, eg:

http://louvre.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/d96/7e0/d967e0de-9f32-479f-a262-c05d0f995ded.thumb

Just edit the suffix off the image and hit enter to view the full sized image.

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this is thread 20050517-1133-4000-1337-000000000000

2005-05-18T22:39:09Z

Vanity thread or post ids are possible, just by tweaking form values. Fun.

http://www.panix.com/~eli/tribe/post.html

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simple new profile del.icio.us hack

2005-04-19T19:18:28Z

really simple actually.

to show del.icio.us bookmarks with a specific tag you can either:

1. use an RSS feed module to subscribe to the tag's feed.

or

2. when creating the del.icio.us module, use <account name>/<tag> as the account name instead of just <account name>

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edit a post you just made

2005-04-19T06:49:07Z

Interesting "quirk" (not really a hack, not really a bug) that lets you overwrite a post you had just made:
http://losangeles.tribe.net/thread/1aeee30a-c103-4a6e-bb0c-0aa13d65e5c9?tribeid=cdfbb92b-65c4-44e4-b3d6-52d4b817b2aa&threads=true&r=10025#6bcb539f-3567-4157-bc3c-3d3a266b3a5d

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dilemma

2005-03-29T18:39:57Z

Armed with a list of all tribe ids, it is a very easy task to join all the public ones. (The moderated and private ones, like this, are a bit trickier. A co-operative insider is needed.)

So, 14k tribes later I get a message from tribe.net (Wendy Bean) telling me that the sheer number of tribes I've joined is causing problems.

The two horns of the dilemma:

1) Do I now script unsubscribing back down to a more reasonable number?

2) Do I point out that the problems are tribe.net bugs and ask for them to be fixed?

I don't want to be a bad guy here, but it was a fair amount of work to get this far, and undoing it would be another fair amount of work.

Hopefully Brian L or Patti B or some other staffer will notice and respond.
(Posted here to be less public about it.)

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Getting Events

2005-03-28T19:22:43Z

I'm trying to pull the data from
http://tribe.net/event/category/4000?search=true&keyword=&sort_by=S&hidephotos=false

into an online calendar to post at
http://alittleredhairedgirl.blogspot.com/

I did in PHP:
<?php
$pagecontents = file_get_contents("http://tribe.net/event/category/4000?search=true&keyword=&sort_by=S&hidephotos=false");
$totallen = strlen($pagecontents);
$findme = '<table class="listings"';
$pos = strpos($pagecontents, $findme)-23;
$findme = '<div id="pageCount"';
$pos1 = strpos($pagecontents, $findme)-30;
$contents = substr($pagecontents, $pos, $pos1);
print $contents;
?>

Trying to figure out hom to automagical get that into RSScalendar.com
(I get this script back)
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.rsscalendar.com/rss/publish.asp?t=m&k=20e169b48c8f869887e2bbe1c5c3ea65&fw=200&ff=10&fs=11&fc=000000&tb=EEEEEE&eb=FFFFFF"></script>

Or put it into iCal format and publish to http://icalshare.com

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User Post History

2005-03-25T23:17:19Z

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/thread/b4776f48-35f4-45b9-88d1-e1ae7c39b2d8?tribeid=4ce60956-9877-46db-8989-2d8bd5c8d92b&r=10395

You could just suck down every thread in every group that they are subscribed to, then grep those.

(That wasn't my plan, but not far from it. My plan involved digests and future posts.)

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simple links

2005-03-25T15:18:20Z

I'm adding all the tricks up my sleeve to a custom personalizes tribe.net browser
http://washington.tribe.net/template/pub%2Coc%2CDetail.vm?plugin=blog&inst=4173&r=10688&topicId=46f7911d-33c1-4030-8fdf-2ca23c52dd95

I have
http://tribe.net/template/messages%2CInbox.vm
http://tribe.net/template/messages%2CFiltered.vm
http://tribe.net/template/messages%2CSent.vm
http://tribe.net/template/messages%2CSaved.vm
http://tribe.net/template/messages%2CIgnore.vm

http://tribe.net/template/Bookmarks.vm
http://tribe.net/messages/compose (shows all friends)
http://tribe.net/template/ViewPaths.vm?personid=5ec3728d-a130-48a9-a6fe-f1380778cc76 (i can drag & drop the person)

http://tribe.net/template/profile,Basics.vm
http://tribe.net/template/profile,Personal.vm
http://tribe.net/template/profile,Professional.vm
http://tribe.net/template/profile,Photos.vm
http://tribe.net/template/profile,Account.vm
http://tribe.net/template/profile,Messages.vm

this is from my new profile
http://tribe.net/template/pub,oc,Detail.vm?plugin=friend&inst=4641

ANY other simple hack type links I can add?

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getting a list of all non-private tribes

2005-03-16T01:06:59Z

I haven't tried to do this in about a year, and boy was I surprized at how tricky it was this time around.

The old 'showall=Y' flag in the URL doesn't work anymore. And to make matters worse, if you go to the main tribes page:

http://tonga.tribe.net/tribes?r=10535

While there is a list of categories and the number tribes in each, those pages only show 50 results, and have no 'next' link. (Bug? Deliberate omission? I think the later since tribe search results also lack a next link.)

After some experimentation, I discovered that those pages fortunately accept a 'page=N' parameter to get results past the first group. After that it was a relatively straight-forward task to figure out the 501 pages to load to get info about the approximately 24,300 non-private tribes.

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Ever since Ashton let me into this tribe...

2005-03-15T20:56:07Z

There have been no hacks! Are you guys just being hush hush now? I am pretty sure that Limbo probably has a hack to share with the group regarding new profiles!

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some good reading

2005-01-27T22:32:29Z

if you guys aren't reading Brian's blog tribe, you really should. check out this thread: http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/thread/a5b5440e-6846-440e-837d-8a785cba88fd?tribeid=5d5e4972-6e03-4794-aca2-32839ded401d

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link directly to photo

2005-01-27T17:41:43Z

This may be obvious to some of you, but wasn't for me.

You might be familiar with the problem of linking to an image in your photos album, only to delete another (previous) photo later, and finding that your photo-links are now broken.

It turns out that the image is stored in a location independantly of the photo album, and can be viewed and linked-to directly.

image on album page (susceptible to change)
http://lithuania.tribe.net/template/pub%2CViewPhoto.vm/context/pcard?page=1&currentoffset=1&parentid=05f53286-2012-4a40-92f9-51ab3385a201&r=10676

image on its own (permanent until deleted)
http://louvre.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/167/212/1672121c-32ef-4ae4-9283-0bcb26f1fee1

Props to Harriet for pointing this out.
http://lithuania.tribe.net/thread/8682b6fc-138c-44b7-80d0-deeb0b7c7c90?tribeid=de9b6ce0-c92e-48c1-a3bc-1a3a2367e250&threads=true&r=10676#2c914af4-8225-478e-9cd0-19f3bf256762

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Tribe.net Ads

2004-12-21T15:33:10Z

The Gods at Tribe are trying the Ad thing
looky over there ------------------------------------------------------->

But hey first off here some code to hack....



<center><script language=javascript>
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://a.tribalfusion.com/i.click?site=Tribenet&adSpace=ROS&size=160x600&requestID=589213499" target=_blank>
<img src="http://a.tribalfusion.com/i.ad?site=Tribenet&adSpace=ROS&size=160x600&requestID=589213499"
width=160 height=600 border=0 alt="Click Here"></a>
</noscript>
</center>



3 things we can do:

1st click on an ad. It's suppose to may them (Tribe) money. Click away. Make 12/23/04 National Click Day.
http://washington.tribe.net/event/81169230-2e3c-49d8-9a48-4d97572c385d?tribeid=399a2441-e442-4559-862e-f5574a454ff6&nextpage=http%3A%2F%2Fwashington.tribe.net%2Ftribe%2F399a2441-e442-4559-862e-f5574a454ff6%3Fr%3D10688&r=10688

2nd we should send them feedback. This is a community. A community by and for the community. Send them feedback. Post in the discussions.

Finally, and THIS is what we all should do...They will give US ad space! Let's create a 120x600 banner (gif/jpeg, 15k) to pomote our Tribe. We have to hurry the offer doesn't last long and I'm sure they getting flooded with requests.

email me if you have ideas
littleredhairedgirl@gmail.com

I'm going to suggest this in my other Tribes too.

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Photo Album Hack

2004-12-16T17:22:48Z

Anyone see a way to hack the new Photo album thingie they rolled out 12/15/04?

I'd like to grab the way they preview 4 images from the photo album.

I know that if you add .medium to the end of photos you get a thumbnail of the the pic, as in:

http://louvre.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/51d/1a6/51d1a65c-8284-420d-aa17-a5af143a5a83

http://louvre.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/51d/1a6/51d1a65c-8284-420d-aa17-a5af143a5a83.medium

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Scraping Hack

2004-12-15T14:43:05Z

Thanks for letting me speak in here:)

I'm looking for a way to scape specific data to tranform it for my
Talking Tribe Concepts ( http://thetalking.tribe.net )

1st I've been hacking into the profiles with the FOAF data and such to produce something like:
http://www.entertaining-arts.com/talking/alexprofile1.htm

Next I'm trying to find an easier and dynamic way to grab discussion threads:
http://www.entertaining-arts.com/talking/talkingthread.htm
and slightly refined:
http://entertaining-arts.com/talking/theadvoice.htm

Finally a hack to give my a quick summary of top things happening on Tribe.net:
http://entertaining-arts.com/talking/tribe.html

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Tribe api opening in the future?

2004-10-26T22:14:38Z

http://lithuania.tribe.net/thread/6ae41d58-adfe-48a9-9e4a-7e7036680cdb?tribeid=de9b6ce0-c92e-48c1-a3bc-1a3a2367e250&r=10676

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the various cookies

2004-10-21T17:59:14Z

Has anyone done work to figure out what exactly each of the cookies is for?

JSESSIONID=HEXSTRING
TRIBE_STATE=vtype=t|visitor=TRIBE-STYLE-ID
TRIBE_NET=6
TRIBE_TOKEN=MAYBEBASE64
remember=true
backtrack=closed

Remember is obvious, that's the 'remember me' checkbox at login. What about TRIBE_NET? Is that the locality you are in? And backtrack?

Are all three of JSESSIONID, TRIBE_STATE, and TRIBE_TOKEN needed? Or is one, perhaps TRIBE_TOKEN, a password used to recreate the others after a session timeout?

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photo album tool

2004-10-21T00:54:50Z

So for a mass posting of photos to my album I recently hacked together a small tool. First I used a browser debugger to capture the POST action of putting an image in my album. This was my lazy way of (1) figuring out the form elements used and (2) grabbing my current credentials (cookies). I then whipped up a little perl script that took a simple config file and posted all the images listed there, with optional captions. Result: more than 100 images added quickly and without tedious find the image, 'submit', wait, repeat.

Based on that I created another tool that would parse the individual photo pages for photo URL and caption and build an imput file to rebuild my album. I used a download tool to grab all 420 pages of my album, ran the parse tool over it, fetched all of the photos (as tribe has them), and now I can rebuild my album from scratch.

Next tool to write would be one to delete everything from my album, so that I can use the recreation tool for caption changes, resorting, updating in the middle, etc.

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tribe photo interestingly borked

2004-10-07T17:26:03Z

As of today: http://MAM32.tribe.net

this image: http://pennsylvania.tribe.net/template/pub%2CViewPhoto.vm/context/tribe?page=14&currentoffset=79&parentid=2fbbf172-da0c-4bb2-8654-6fd5785fb9df&r=10424

when selected as the tribe photo gives a real loooooooong blocky image.

heh.

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user.css for re-design

2004-10-01T20:10:03Z

http://brevard.tribe.net/thread/072d092b-a38d-4530-962b-c5f4e9b9cbc8?tribeid=de9b6ce0-c92e-48c1-a3bc-1a3a2367e250&threads=true&r=10022#69db061f-b486-49bc-b455-881740e7983c

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how many tribes in a Tribe.net???

2004-10-01T15:31:38Z

http://sydney.tribe.net/tribe/category?r=10313

19,673 I do believe

should work with every locale; works with multi-values of r, and by removing the ?r=xxxxx entirely.

but maybe this worked before, too. I never tried.

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Personal Network game

2004-09-14T22:09:26Z

Can you add and subtract people to tweak your network size?

Somebody noticed that my network was the same as a zipcode from our home state....

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tribe cast

2004-06-15T18:14:17Z

yay for new features! pageless scraping anyone?

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Scrape

2004-06-14T18:25:51Z

in action at http:/tribeVoters.tribe.net

"I am developing a tribe add-on. This technology will allow users to easily conduct polls, surveys and manage committees by use of a simple vote. Here's how it works.

The person who creates a thread, poses the question and designates the possible multiple choice responses, for instance, [yes] or [no]. My program simply reads the thread and compiles the results. The results are then posted.

If someone votes more than once then their last or most current vote is counted. Thus this technologyd does not interfere with a normal discussion, and as the discussion progresses, you may change your vote.

Ideally, there will be a time limit, after which the votes and activity statistics will be compiled and posted.

There are many possible uses for this technology. I've checked with the tribe administrators, and they've given me the go ahead to write this program."

He's not kidding: Approved of by tribe.walter
http://www.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub%2Ctribes%2CViewThread.vm?threadid=d2fb5881-70d2-4e21-9832-fe5797d163ee&tribeid=6abb28b1-064a-4574-99de-18d5fb0539c8

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Subject lines...

2004-06-11T21:40:41Z

In tribe.bugs there is someone talking about injecting code in the history bar using the greater than and less than characters. Anyone on to this?

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Hacker Music... hehehe

2004-05-21T08:01:21Z

http://www.mp34u.com/songCard.php?posting=339&by=results
Barcelona - I have the password to your shell account.mp3

I like this alot.

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Stalk Part II

2004-05-08T20:02:20Z

I was just reminded by seeing the title stalk in the messages here that I was banned from orkut.com for starting a stalk group about stalking on and offline. Just thought that was funny and I would bring it up... viva tribe!
B-

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image scroll

2004-05-04T16:38:15Z

With this new home page look, I've noticed something. Probably more of a browser feature/bug -- I use Firefox. For some of the Friends images, I suspect ones that have been cropped -- but I'm not sure --I can click the image to open the personCard up in a new window/tab, and then if I scroll the mouse wheel the image scrolls in its box.

I guess the image is cropped by use of a fixed size <DIV> or something with a larger image in the <IMG> tag.

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triberc

2004-04-02T18:51:20Z

I'd like to be able to group the tribes. My first thought is to have a cgi program read and reproduce the tribe tab data in the order of a triberc file of tribeid's.

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Stalk

2004-04-02T02:06:10Z

Given a personid (pid), read their card and return a list of tribes (p2t), fetch the rss feed for each tribe discarding any posts without the desired pid.

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stats

2004-03-22T01:26:59Z

Given the rss feed, we can now generate stats about a tribe. What sort of numbers would you like to see?

Related thread
http://www.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub%2Ctribes%2CViewThread.vm?threadid=7206c69d-4473-4ebd-b659-886057be8806&tribeid=de9b6ce0-c92e-48c1-a3bc-1a3a2367e250

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noisy rss

2004-03-17T02:01:40Z

Pointed a news aggregator at high volume tribes Show&Tell and Random with unfavorable results. Took a look at the rss feed and noted that entire posts were included. Used the perl module LWP::Simple to fetch the feed, XML::RSS to render it, and printed out the link, user, and first 80 characters of the post. An ideal short-attention-span view into a noisy tribe.

Re: I smell something blue Jake
Its always you, you, you. "I'm sore from doing this eternal horizontal split on

Re: soup... Jake
Bombs are the butternut.

Re: soup... Freddy
butternut squash is the bomb

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Godawful Tribe Picture

2004-03-12T21:43:14Z

I put this up in tribe moderators too:

I'm a member of a tribe, a very nice and lively tribe, that has a horrible and rather irrelevant tribe picture. A few of us have sent messages to the moderator, who seems to be absent, asking for a picture change but have had no reponse.

Any way to tell if she's still active on tribe? Any way to hack a new picture up there?

Please, it's vile and it's killing me!

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reap

2004-01-27T00:49:55Z

Virtually all of the interesting tribes that I've found have been via a person. I've gotten pretty good at reading a person's tribes and going 'got it, hate it, whaaa?' However, I broke down and wrote a script to take two personid's and telling me what tribes a person is subscribed to that I am not ...

Only
80s whores tribeid=6b4a188a-6f64-4114-a60f-8db663c6e15b
friends with benefits tribeid=a54ee6fa-921e-46ef-8ac1-29e86533503e
i heart the notwist tribeid=ec7c9869-e5bd-41c8-9e95-f68ca99c0d86
neutral milk hotel tribeid=3502dc35-b9bd-461d-9781-93839ada55f7
new order tribeid=bf4a0d09-fd5b-4f6e-a39f-57c547069e4c
skateboard nerds tribeid=30954f32-a74f-406c-8e1a-3877287088bc

Both
toronado tribeid=8bced73a-912d-4b58-b5e4-0687a280c66e

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Tribe Hack #1

2004-01-23T07:04:39Z

Recently tribe.net added 'show all' links on each tribe category page. (Click the 'Tribes' tab at top, and the then scroll down pasy your subscribed tribes to the list of categories. Click on any one of them, and at the top there are numbered links to show each page of N tribes, then after that the big list one.)

So I got a list of all 8903 tribes last night and scraped it to produced tab-separated-value files with the following info:

tribename pub/moderated user-count description long-tribecard-link

zip'ed this information is about 500k. If you want a copy, email me. Or I could post the parse script here (written in perl) for others to play with.

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