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A comment on the idea "Flickr: new People in Photos feature" in Polar Rose:

Would be really nice to be able to add this, but this is a lot more work than it seems. Flickr puts a lot of restraints on this. For example, the user needs to be a Flickr user. Since we allow people to tag with any identity including Facebook ones, this is problematic.

We don't currently support contacts from Flickr either, so that will have to be added. Also, Flickr doesn't allow for any way of linking people tags back to Polar Rose (remember we might have more photos of a person, for example those coming from Facebook), thus it would be all giving and no taking. Add to that, no way of messaging a Flickr user and so on and it becomes a pretty hairy overall.

But we're thinking about it. – Thijs Stalenhoef, on March 01, 2010 12:07

Thijs Stalenhoef set one of Thijs Stalenhoef's replies as an official response to "Full image popup from face" in Polar Rose

Thijs Stalenhoef replied on March 01, 2010 12:01 to the idea "Full image popup from face" in Polar Rose:

This would indeed be a nice feature. We've been kicking that idea around for a while now. Hopefully we'll be able to add it soon.

Thijs Stalenhoef set one of Thijs Stalenhoef's replies as an official response to "Older/Newer link should be Next/Prev" in Polar Rose

Thijs Stalenhoef replied on March 01, 2010 11:56 to the problem "Older/Newer link should be Next/Prev" in Polar Rose:

Point taken. Thanks!

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Thijs Stalenhoef replied on March 01, 2010 11:55 to the question "How are >10k photos handled?" in Polar Rose:

Hi Neil,

There is currently no way to increase the 10K limit from a user point of view.
Newer ones do push off old ones, but we do not "delete" any information when that happens. You just might not be able to access that information though.

You cannot remove photos just from Polar Rose. The system works on the basis of a full sync between Polar Rose and Flickr and removing individual photos from consideration would complicate that quite dramatically for us.

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Thijs Stalenhoef replied on March 01, 2010 11:51 to the question "Temporary vs. permanent ignore" in Polar Rose:

Hi Neil,

Sorry for the late reply. People you ignore will stay ignored for a week of non-activity. After that they come round again. We've wanted to improve this but haven't yet found the time.

Ignoring a face just ignores that particular face (i.e. one face from one particular photo), not a whole group of faces or anything, so it doesn't skew recognition in any way.

A comment on the question "Can Polar Rose add tags to Flickr rather than notes?" in Polar Rose:

Sorry to hear that Pat.

We really do like these ideas, but we've having trouble finding the time to execute them. Machinetags and people tags would indeed be great additions, but I cannot say when we'll get round to implementing them.

-Thijs. – Thijs Stalenhoef, on March 01, 2010 11:47

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Thijs Stalenhoef replied on March 01, 2010 11:44 to the problem "I have a lot of photos on facebook, but none are imported. Why?" in Polar Rose:

Hi Christian,

We've found your problem and a fix for it will be online soon!
Sorry for the inconvenience. Its seems Facebook changed a lot of stuff with little notice!

-Thijs.

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Thijs Stalenhoef replied on February 26, 2010 09:19 to the question "Useage with MySpace" in Polar Rose:

MySpace is on the list of sites we'd like to support. Unfortunately supporting new sites is not on the short-term roadmap right now. Once we do support MySpace, you'll hear about it here!

Thijs Stalenhoef replied on February 26, 2010 08:59 to the problem "I have a lot of photos on facebook, but none are imported. Why?" in Polar Rose:

Hi Christian,

Could be for several reasons:
1. We've had problems with connecting to Facebook, because Facebook changed their interfaces.
2. We only take photos whose privacy settings are set to "friends only", "friends of friends" or "everyone". Our service exists to share photos with the people in them, so we do not take photos marked "private" or "only these specific people".

I of course have no way of knowing which is the case for you right now. If you are sure it is not #2, then you could go to the "sources" page and remove the Facebook photo source and log-out. Then log back in and re-add the photo source.

Hopefully that is possible, as there currently is a bug in Facebook's special permissions popup (something we unfortunately cannot solve :-( ) that prevents you from granted us permissions for some of the things we need.

Can you let me know how the results if any?

Thanks!

Thijs Stalenhoef replied on February 09, 2010 09:27 to the problem "My Facebook friends are being spammed with hundreds of messages!" in Polar Rose:

Adam,

We cannot find your name in the system anywhere. We really need your Polar Rose ID in order to continue to look for the cause of this issue...

Also, we will need to know if each message that your girlfriend got has the exact same link in it, or if they are different links. This is crucial!

Thanks!

A comment on the idea "Naming process could be smoother, more pleasant." in Polar Rose:

Hi Jon,

Is this still an issue for you? If so, what browser are you on? If you're on IE then this is the cause of the problem I'm afraid. Otherwise please let me know. – Thijs Stalenhoef, on February 09, 2010 09:16

Thijs Stalenhoef replied on February 09, 2010 08:57 to the praise "Is there any integration with New Orkut already, yet?" in Polar Rose:

Very late reply, sorry. We don't have any direct plans for Orkut. Picasa doesn't really have an API in the same way as Flickr does, so it might be tricky. Sorry.

A comment on the question "Can Polar Rose add tags to Flickr rather than notes?" in Polar Rose:

Hi,

We'd love to integrate with the people option too, but last time I checked there was no API for doing so. This would definitely be of interest to us though. – Thijs Stalenhoef, on February 09, 2010 08:56

Thijs Stalenhoef replied on February 09, 2010 08:45 to the problem "My Facebook friends are being spammed with hundreds of messages!" in Polar Rose:

Hi Adam,

Obviously this should not be happening. My apologies!
Your girlfriend should only be getting ONE mail per day if she was tagged during that particular day and a maximum of two in total, if you were tagging her on consecutive days.

We'll get to the bottom of this right away, though please note that it is Facebook that actually sends these tagging messages, not us. The fact that "the messages keep coming" even after you turned off photo tagging on our side also suggests that this problem might be on the Facebook side.

We'll try and find out what happen from our side! Could you please mail me (http://info.polarrose.com/contact from my email address) your Polar Rose ID (the number in the URL that you see when browsing your own photos).

Thanks!