Switching between weather models now takes 3 clicks
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I agree. The pop up box is not a step forward. Hides the bottom dispaly area for the location forecast.
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In addition to this pop up getting in the way of seeing the one hour forecast and the map, I am experiencing repeated situations where the pop up window stays up and unresponsive to any clicks. Other times it will not change models but at least the window will close. Reloading the page does nothing. This is happening equally with Firefox, duckduckgo and chrome on a Windows 10 machine. Another problem is every time I look to see different models it changes the map position and zoom to the start up location forcing even more wasted time. The direct comparisons the old interface afforded are the things that attracted me to be a premium user.
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I can only support the criticism of the other commenters:
Usability has deteriorated by the new weather model selector and a number of new deficiencies been introduced- selector can often not be closed when ECMWF is active
- selections are sometimes not effective (although this bug may predate the current implementation
- re-centering the display with new selection is a nuisance
- when selecting ICON-D2 erratic time jumps occur - first forward then backward
which means that when toggling between ICON-D2 and other models the time steps back continuously
It seems this UI re-design was neither planned nor executed/QC'ed carefully.
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Please fix this silly mistake.
It's making Windy unpleasant to use. -
I can only support the previous posts. Please bring the old version back or something equivalent.
best regards
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Totally agree with above comments re change to the toolbar at the bottom of the viewing window...."if it ain't broke, don't fix it!".
Is there a reason for the change to the structure of the UI?????
I have posted a suggestion in the past that may resolve this issue for PC users ---- provide some "keyboard short-cut keys" allowing accessing to and changing of NWP models in addition to the current method of mouse clicking. The Windy Team have made available short-cut keys for some other functions.
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I am not sure if devs, or decision makers at windy really understand what they did here? This is so frustrating, I am seeing my use cases as unusable now, up to the point I am thinking to cancel my premium sub.
Please, please revert to old model switch!
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I made an account just to complain about this new "feature." It's terrible! Please switch it back
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Another vote - please bring it back. It looks like the entire component was designed by AI without a human UI/UX. Another UX problem is that now it is not immediately clear when the model was last updated -> how relevant it is...
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@Václav-Ráš said in Switching between weather models now takes 3 clicks:
Another UX problem is that now it is not immediately clear when the model was last updated -> how relevant it is...
Yet it is clearly displayed, no?
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@idefix37 "clearly displayed" - That's not the wording I would use.
Do you remember where this information was before? Right in the bar.
The entire modal now hides the weather forecast for the next X hours, so you have to change the model, remember when it was updated, close it, remember what the forecast was, and repeat the whole process for all relevant models in the area.
You could say that you could use model comparison, but nope, another UX fail. With the hourly forecast, for which I pay premium, you can't see the forecast for the next hours and the time the model was updated at the same time. The constant horizontal scroll to get this information is similarly unfortunate. In this case, it would be enough to put sticked to the right "model-desc flex-row svelte-5z0hfd" and sticked to the left "legend-wrapper svelte-5z0hfd" element. Not that hard.
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@Václav-Ráš
The full information about model updates is still available by clicking the small circled i in bottom right corner. This has not been changed. -
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iin the bottom right corner on the default forecast page for a location. - This thread is about this very problem - that information that used to be immediately visible now has to be searched for, and that switching models takes three clicks instead of one.
- I can't see the
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@idefix37 There is a special bowl in hell for UI designers using light grey font over white background, example of that is on your screenshot. (By the way why you didn't underline it with light yellow?). Your UI designer should be fired one more time.
No, It is NOT CLEARLY DISPLAYED! -
@Koss5
You know that I’m just a Windy user ! I have no UI designer. -
@Koss5 @Václav-Ráš @Ftjwinfs We already have an adjustment for this model switcher and I think we found really solid alternative and compromise solution for this tool.
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@Suty hi, when we can expect planned improvement for model switcher to be live?
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@zlatokoza Hopefully today. I have reported some issues in our test version to colleagues, but it is still planned to release our 47.1 today.
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Can only agree with everything said in this thread. Usability has been going downhill steadily for quite a long while, unfortunately...
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Hi @Suty, I see new changes now. It is one step forward imo but still few steps back from the original switcher.
Where we can now easily see when the model was updated last time?
And if it would be possible ti pin the model list such it does not hide after few seconds it would be really good step forward.Thanks.
