Please clarify why animations were removed
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I've seen other people on here ask about this before but when asked why the animation (the "create a timeline animation" feature) was removed, we were given a response about "low" usage and bugs.
When it was pointed out that low usage didn't seem to be a valid reason because many people were still creating animations every day that were getting uploaded to https://community.windy.com/topic/8191/your-animations/36468 , there was no further response.
I also commented that I'd personally only experienced a single bug during the entire time but there was no response to that either.
So in light of the above, could you please clarify why that feature was removed?
As a premium user who pays a fee and especially as someone who also donated money to Windy some time ago when you were appealing for donations, it would be nice to think that such popular useful features wouldn't be removed. -
@Ken Hi, I am sorry that you miss this feature. However, it was difficult to keep this feature working and the usage of this was extremely low in comparison to other functionalities we offer, so the product team decided to remove it.
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@Suty the usage doesn't look low judging by this link though: https://community.windy.com/topic/8191/your-animations/36468
Maybe compared to the most widely-used features but to me, that link shows there were more than enough people using it to warrant keeping it.
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Meanwhile >83 milllion views, more than everything else together, there seems a lot of use beyond my mind. Maybe they even prevented some cats from getting wet.
I just used it to communicate the summaries of hours of meditations about eg. geophysics of airflow or development of severe hotspots and tracking SO2 from volcanoes, if time & the bugs allowed it.
It was also very convenient to catch some radar-issues.
Now let´s finally continue Windy´s own satellite project and defeat the bossoid-bug. -
@Caefix said in Please clarify why animations were removed:
Meanwhile >83 milllion views, more than everything else together, there seems a lot of use beyond my mind. Maybe they even prevented some cats from getting wet.
I just used it to communicate the summaries of hours of meditations about eg. geophysics of airflow or development of severe hotspots and tracking SO2 from volcanoes, if time & the bugs allowed it.
It was also very convenient to catch some radar-issues.
Now let´s finally continue Windy´s own satellite project and defeat the bossoid-bug.@Suty , Caefix made a great point - I hadn't even noticed that animations thread had over 83 million views.
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The missing feature bug is definitely worse than any nested-if bug.
https://community.windy.com/topic/32957/disabling-of-videos-download
Windy has lost a unique gem. Also the time and know-how to develop it fo far should vindicate the afford of some more hours.
(The first might be to copy & paste the code from the backup with a link in the menue.) -
@Caefix I totally agree with you there.
All that time and effort put into the animation feature only for it to be abandoned feels like a big waste to me.
And yes, the animation feature in Windy was much smoother than those in any other website or app I know of. Not only that, those smooth animations could show both both rain and thunder (the lightning symbols) together - something that no other website or app I'm aware of, can do.
Such a unique feature wasted.
