Hurricane Tracker page takes up 50% of screen...for what purpose?
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On my desktop Windy, clicking the hurricane icon produces good hurricane tracking information. But it is cramped into the right half of the screen and difficult to view. The informational left half of the screen is mostly wasted space and can't be minimized or size adjusted. If I "X" out the hurricane tracker, to regain the weather map screen space, all the onscreen hurricane information disappears. There are currently three hurricanes in the east Pacific and I'd like to see them all without having to zoom out so far that they are tiny.
Since the recent upgrade/changes, actual weather map screen space has taken a back seat with more and more windows ( four tool bars , wIndy logo, premium link, profile icon , timer scroll bar, misc text links ) obscuring the main reason we visit Windy...ie: to see the weather map, have you forgotten this? It's almost arrogant that you would let your hurricane tracker section take up half the screen space.
I can only suggest you provide a way to turn all these intrusions off and on. I hope you can do this before you turn Windy into another Wundermap and lose your viewers like they did.
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@jbclem Hi there, can you please let me know what device do you use? I checked the hurricane tracker on the desktop and the whole menu/list with hurricanes is on the left side, covering not more than 30% of the screen. The rest is covered by map with hurricanes, where you can check them.
According to mobile devices, this menu is at the bottom and it doesn't cover more than 30% of the screen.
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@Ondřej-Šutera I have a png screenshot that will show the near 50% screen space I mentioned. I've tried to attach it with the image link icon...see below. I'm using a Dell Optiplex 9020 i7 running Windows XP sp3. I view Windy on various browsers that work with WinXp. Firefox 52esr, Serpent 52 (FF 78), 360Chrome 13.5(Chrome 88), and others.
I did accidentally trigger the mobile mode yesterday, and found the hurricane tracker in the vertical mode that you mentioned. It was better but there was still too much wasted screen space and I think it could be much condensed and still present the same information. I also accidentally triggered the thumbnail mode with the color icons (radar, wind, etc...). I don't know how I triggered these two modes so I can't duplicate them at will.
I did find a solution to the problem(s) I was complaining about. I turn on the hurricane tracker, and then trigger an element blocker extension. That removes the left side hurricane tracker and also all the elements on the screen...but leaves the hurricane graphics. I'm left with a nice clean weather map with the hurricane track. Another click of the element blocker and all the screen space blocking items come back(tool bars, etc...). It's a nice solution.
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@jbclem May I ask which monitor you use? What resolution the device has?
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I have two computers, both using 22" wide screen Samsung Syncmaster monitors (one is model S224460, the other is 220wm) both set at 1024 x 768 resolution.
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@jbclem Unfortunately, this is caused by the resolution of these monitors. I tested this on the same resolution you have and you are right that the size of the tracker is almost 50% of screen. However, FullHD and higher resolutions, don't have this issue.
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Thanks for checking this out. The 1024x768 resolution is the most comfortable for my eyes, so I'll have to stick with it... and I can either change the resolution or use the element blocking solution when I need to alleviate the problem.
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@Suty I use a much higher resolution than the OP and I'm still bothered by the fact I can't close the Hurricane tracker panel. There should be an option to fold it away. If I put the window on either of my "portrait" monitors it takes up nearly a third of the window. Only when placed in my main "landscape" monitor does it take up roughly 1/6th of the window.
Windy in portrait monitor
Windy in landscape monitor
I still really like Windy, just wish I could fold away that panel when tracking a hurricane.
JD
