@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.
@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.)
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.
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.)
Ah! I get it. That's what happens when there is only one webcam in my vicinity.
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.
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.
Perhaps have it instead use an arrow, just like I drew.
This border is barely visible:
We need to see it in order to know what the current time of the frame is.
@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."
@jidanni I want it to go to that same zoom level every time I start the app.
How to change the default startup zoom level in the Android app?
I found how to change the default startup location, but not the zoom level.
Ah, perhaps simply a case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_bias ,
where the author A sees a non moving image of the animal on the right,
to mean "faster" than the moving image of the center animal.
Different than viewer B living in different country C.
@Korina Yes. I was going to say that the middle animal certainly looks like it is much faster than the animal to the right. However before saying so, I though I should have a closer look to see which animals they actually were.
@BrandonKing No I never did find where the three animals appear in my browser from.
I am debugging the three running animal images (upper right in the image below. Middle one (selected) with brown oval) but I cannot find where they are stored.
Here I am in Developer tools, looking at iconfont, but it doesn't contain the three running animals. Can't find them anywhere else in the Network tab either. Yes, I read tip.
I got a message calling me stupid, for pressing a like button.
OK now I know.
@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.
Perhaps replace the any LIKE / THUMBS UP / VOTE / UNLIKE buttons here on
this discussion board with the "full" six emotion buttons. Or make them
simple anonymous tallies. Or both.
(Else e.g., simply hitting the LIKE button because one cannot find the
FUNNY button could lead to messages in their INBOX asking one to explain
their actions!
But then even hitting FUNNY if a post has a funny title, but isn't so
funny deep down, could still lead to unhappy INBOX messages about one's
click. So therefore perhaps fully ANONYMOUS SIX EMOTION like/unlike
button replacements are called for.)
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.