Netflix Update to Fix Most Friends Problems

Michael on the Netflix Community Blog says that Netflix will release an update that will fix most of the Friends problems that people are experiencing, Friends Problems, Take 2.

This weekend we will release some fixes that will solve this problem for many of you. Unfortunately it will not solve it for all of you. Here's the deal: When you go the the Friends page, the website loads up those sliders with the movies your friends have rated. It pulls in your notes. It calculates your sim% to each friend. And it does a few other things. To calculate the sim% it is doing an analysis and comparison of your ratings to each of your friends. We give the page a time period to get all this done. If it doesn't complete its tasks in this period, it "times out" and you get some kind of error message.

Michael goes on to explain in detail what's happening, and why, in case you're interested.