That was fun. And now we’re all prepared to take in the 13 new servers which’ll be arriving over the next week or two. A longer post on technical details and what we’re doing to conquer upload slowness will follow in the next while. For now I wanted to thank everyone for their patience, and remark on the creative ways in which the downtime was turned in to an ‘event’, like the great countdown thread in FlickrCentral:

and so on …

Thanks Flickrdom!