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    Dan Jacobson

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    Email jidanni@jidanni.org Website www.jidanni.org/ Location Taichung, Taiwan Age 60

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    Best posts made by jidanni

    • Android app lacks instructions

      I just installed the Android app, and my very first impression is I can't find the instructions.

      posted in Bug Reports
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      jidanni
    • RE: App has no way to set Home screen Start-up zoom

      OK. (But perhaps do like the Flightradar24 app, remembering the previous zoom through thick and thin (all manner of restarts, powerdowns, etc.)

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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      jidanni
    • RE: Keyboard shortcuts

      On Twitter, "?" brings up a list of keyboard shortcuts. Saves a lot of bytes,

      posted in Frequently Asked Questions
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      jidanni
    • Three hour jumps are just too crude
      • Visit https://www.windy.com/-Rain-thunder-rain?rain,23.790,120.624,8
      • Hit keyboard→→→→... to advance time three hours at a time.

      You will observe that for major storm blobs one can follow the logic of how they travel.

      But for anything less, it is: how did cloud A jump to point B? Etc.

      Therefore we see that three hour jumps are just too wide.

      One hour jumps are needed to keep the cloud movement logic recognizable. P.S., no I am not "overly zoomed in for my own good."

      The site does a super job with the little wind arrows. Now time to fix up jerky weather blob (cloud) movement.

      posted in Bug Reports
      jidanni
      jidanni
    • RE: Alert menu wind direction should also include arrows

      In fact I now notice the original "pizza pie" in the image indeed has eight slices, apparently trying to express the same thing
      (that a slice pointing north is called "S"(outh), etc.)

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
      jidanni
      jidanni
    • RE: How to set up a Windy Alert

      @idefix37 It turns out the "suspend alert for some time" button is only available if one clicks on the link sent to one's mailbox. Otherwise for me it the pencil is just a "rename" link, like the last pencil in your image, the one that you didn't put a red arrow next to.

      posted in Frequently Asked Questions
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      jidanni
    • RE: Windy is showing me a webcam

      Ah! I get it. That's what happens when there is only one webcam in my vicinity.

      posted in Windy Webcams
      jidanni
      jidanni
    • RE: Three hour jumps are just too crude

      @Gkikas-LGPZ I see. Hmmm, it seems that their predictions are vastly different too. So I suppose you fellows made the best choice for default. OK.

      posted in Bug Reports
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      jidanni
    • Metric units should be on the same side of settings

      In the app go to settings. Now look at temperature rain snow excetera. Some of them have the metric units on the right, and some of them on the left. They all should be on the same side. The English units should be on the other side.

      posted in Bug Reports
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      jidanni

    Latest posts made by jidanni

    • RE: No way to keep same background map even "in very detailed zoom levels"

      @Korina Fine.
      Anyway, in all cases the little animated wind arrows are easier to see on a non-distracting background.
      That is why it is the only choice at lower zoom levels.
      That principle still holds at higher zoom levels. Alas "the rug has been pulled out from underneath us" at higher zoom levels. Therefore please consider offering the non-distracting background as one of the choices for high zoom levels. Thanks.

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
      jidanni
      jidanni
    • RE: No way to keep same background map even "in very detailed zoom levels"

      @Korina Yes. I am saying let's not decide for the user what level is enough, but instead give them the freedom to chose the same/whatever layer all the way to the end.
      In particular the freedom to get the previous behaviour that was seen before the latest site update.

      (In fact I don't think "in the history of cartography" there has been any other site where map styles suddenly jarringly change as one zooms.) (Indeed it couldn't be due to saving costs, as fewer map layers mean less costs than more.)

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
      jidanni
      jidanni
    • No way to keep same background map even "in very detailed zoom levels"

      In the past we could keep the same background map even "in very detailed zoom levels".
      Now we are forced to change to one of two alternatives, that make it very hard to see the little wind arrows.
      10665-0.jpg
      If it were easy to see the little wind arrows, then these two choices should be allowed at any zoom level.
      In the picture you can see at the right I left a slice of the original background map that I wish would be still available as a choice at any zoom level, just like the site used to work.

      (For the left circle choice the arrows are still best visible over the ocean. For the right circle choice, over the ocean one cannot see any arrows.)

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
      jidanni
      jidanni
    • RE: Windy is showing me a webcam

      Ah! I get it. That's what happens when there is only one webcam in my vicinity.

      posted in Windy Webcams
      jidanni
      jidanni
    • Windy is showing me a webcam

      I hit some button in the app, and now Windy is showing me a webcam. That is great. However that webcam is rather far from me. How can I choose to have Windy show me a nearer webcam? No, I don't have any friends who own webcams.

      posted in Windy Webcams
      jidanni
      jidanni
    • RE: Report your Weather Station Data to Windy

      I notice that Windy hasn't started using the tons of data offered in
      https://opendata.cwb.gov.tw/dataset/observation yet. Just wanted to
      let you know.

      posted in Windy Stations
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      jidanni
    • RE: Border barely visible

      Perhaps have it instead use an arrow, just like I drew.

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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      jidanni
    • Border barely visible

      This border is barely visible:
      Screenshot_20200918-183938_1_1.jpg
      We need to see it in order to know what the current time of the frame is.

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
      jidanni
      jidanni
    • RE: How to change the default startup zoom level in the app?

      @Yves70 That's too bad. Each time I start up I have to zoom in thousands of miles. I guess whoever set the defaults lives in a larger country or uses some regional approach to looking at weather. Alas, there is no "one size fits all."

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
      jidanni
      jidanni
    • RE: How to change the default startup zoom level in the app?

      @jidanni I want it to go to that same zoom level every time I start the app.

      posted in Your Feedback and Suggestions
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      jidanni