Posts made by jidanni

I wish I could suspend individual alerts instead of only just canceling them. In fact today I can't even find out where all my alerts is stored.

As much as I don't like talking to robots at customer service,
I must accept it anyway these days.
So I would be, yes, happy with artificial fronts drawn by robots (algorithms)
instead of real weatherpeople.

@Korina Yes, but that requires extra knowledge (via each user asking on e.g., this board), as there is a disconnection in the path the user needs to follow from the first red "1" to the next click he needs to make to see what the red "1" is all about. That is because the second red "1" is missing from the four line menu.

@idefix37 The red "1" should also be repeated a second time, attached to one of the four lines below in the box. Sure it is obvious to you, but for me, random guessing on what to click on is dangerous.

OK, but a second "1" is missing from "my alerts":

The user does not know which of the four lines to click.

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.)

OK. Here is my method to figure it out:

1. Pick some place in the ocean with high winds.
   The animated arrows there are the clearest on Windy.
   The least likely to not be misunderstood.

2. OK, now click the map.

As we see, it reveals "60°" confirming that Windy names winds by the
direction they blow FROM. (And 60 is thus close to NE (and not SW.))

(Sure, you could say that that is standard weather practice. But we are
not all weather professionals here, and "▶" could look like an object
being blown by winds FROM the east too.)

Thanks!
100% "I would have never guessed" if you didn't tell me!

Re: Alerts
It would be good in the menus, to have an additional item: Alerts.
That way one could see a list of the alerts one set up.

Indeed, that way one could figure out if he has one, or two alerts set up.
(Currently one cannot tell if he is adding a second one, or editing the first one.)

Also one could toggle a checkbox to make an alert active or not.

When setting up an alert, the winds are described with direction names.
This contrasts with the rest of the site, which completely uses various styles of arrows.
So the alert menu should also include arrows too. Or the rest of the site should have mouseovers describing the name of a given arrow.

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.

If I press the arrow the animation starts. The pause button also works correctly. The problem I'm having is how to reset to the current time? If I pull the time bar backwards, I end up pulling too far.

Problem seen on both mobile and website using a cell phone.

(Yes, I know. I was hoping for accumulation.)

OK! (Impressed with the Picker: ultimate precision for two dimensions (latitude and longitude) (Alas no Picker for fourth dimension (time).)

UI Glitich: Idea: regarding

Rain accumulation
Next 12 hours	Next 24 hours	Next 3 days	Next 5 days	Next 10 days

Perhaps there also could be a slider or something added so the user could choose an arbitrary point, e.g. "Next 2 days", "Next 2.5 days", etc.

E.g., I have a guest visiting my forest for what will be the first half of a typhoon period, next two days only, and want to predict how much rain will accumulate.

(I'm thinking about which github.../windycom/.../issues place it would be better for me to report things like the numbers cut off in in above image in. As GitHub issues lists are all simple defect reports.) (One can also see above the X that there is some other red square obscured.)(Anyway, with GitHub if I guessed wrong about a bug, like with the clock, the project members can simply say it was intentional and close it.)

@idefix37 yes, windy is 99% great. I'm just trying to file some simple bug reports. Perhaps I don't know the correct place to file them (github?). Here is another one that I found, there are words cut off at the bottom of the screen (on the m line), and tapping the X does not reveal them, because the X has a different action. The screenshot is from the Android app. Please tell me the proper place to file such bug reports.
I will append a picture in a moment.
Yes, it is true my tone of voice was bad in the past. But from now on they will be just simple bug reports.

Bug: https://www.windy.com/ uses a clock icon,

for "about these data".
That is incorrect. It should use an "i with a circle - information" or "?" icon instead.

Proof: https://community.windy.com/ uses a clock icon,

correctly to mean "recent".

Facebook use of clock icon:

User clicks Thunderstorms.
User wonders what do those numbers mean.
User spots this,

User wonders does it mean

• I: Incidents of lightning per square kilometer?
• l: liters of rainwater per square kilometer?
• l: lightning bolts per square kilometer?

etc.
There is no mouseover explanation.
Even browser Developer Tools doesn't help.