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Delay in import of photos Friday
Flickr had some interruptions for a few hours this morning that affected the import of new photos into Polar Rose. It looks like most is resolved by now.
Fix out for Flickr Import
As many of you have experienced during the first day of operation of the new Polar Rose, your photos from Flickr were not appearing as quickly as anticipated. This has now been fixed with a release that went out 30 minutes ago, and we apologize for the inconvenience.
The reason for the delayed import of photos was two-fold: our network setup between our European data center, our servers at Amazon Web Services, and Flickr; and a bug in the generation of your individual photo stream which is cached for performance.
A big thanks to our colleagues in the Warsaw team who chased down this bug in the early hours of today (you’re an ace, Piotr!), and to Flickr for helping us identify where on our end the issues were arising.
A few other fixes, optimizations and minor user interface improvements also went out in the same release so please let us know if you have any other problems or suggestions for improvements. We’re all ears.