Polar Rose Blog – A blog about sharing photos & other stuff that matters to us
Site (almost) fully operational
After a brief outage due to issues with our Facebook integration, polarrose.com is back online again. Our ninjas managed to track down the problem and fixed it in record time! Thanks for your patience!
Update: There are still problems with Facebook Connect when trying to create a new account. Basically there is no way to accept the special permissions needed. Existing accounts should be fine. This problem is on the side of Facebook unfortunately and Polar Rose isn’t the only site that is affected. We’ll keep you posted.
Site down due to login issues
We are currently experiencing problems with our Facebook Connect based login system. Our ninjas are working on the problem and we hope to have things running smoothly again very soon! Stay tuned!
Thanks for the feedback – we’ve been listening!
There has been lots of great feedback about the recent “Sander” release of Polar Rose, a big thanks to everyone for your articles and comments. We have been listening to your input and ideas – two of them in particular have caught our attention…
A recurring theme was users wanting to be able to turn off the wall posts that are posted to a users Facebook wall when they have been naming people.
To be clear on this issue, Polar Rose sends two types of messages via Facebook:
- Notifications to other Facebook users when (and ONLY when) you name them in a photo – notifications to you when your photos are processed or someone requests to follow you.
- A wall post with daily summary of your activity on Polar Rose which is added a maximum of once per day IF there has been any activity in your Polar Rose account.
Another theme was users wanting control over whether tags were synchronized between Polar Rose and the source (Facebook, Flickr etc.) where the original photo came from. Some users don’t want these tags (or photo notes in the case of Flickr) being added to their photos.
We listened and…
We just pushed out a minor release which adds both the functionality to turn off daily summary wall posts (point 2 in the list above) – plus the functionality to disable the synchronization of tags.
Both of these settings can be found on your settings page.
Let us know what you think, and keep the feedback coming!
