@Suty Why turn them off? Seems unnecessary.

Posts made by jimerb
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New Features Popup Never Goes Away
I constantly get the same popups over and over again telling me how to use the hurricane tracker or new features. I select delete on mobile apps and click the X on windows and it still pops up.
It's pretty annoying.
Why can you just make it so that if i delete it, it doesn't show up again on any device? I know how to use the hurricane tracker, I don't need to be reminded 100 times. Or feature updates. Once is enough.
This is what I'm talking about:
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Icon Formatting Issue In Browser
My toolbar is not formatting properly. It is unexpectedly taking two columns instead of one. This is repeatable on my windows 11 computer with firefox browser. Edge is working okay but I don't use that.
The browser's zoom is 100%.
Here's a screen Image:
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RE: now were onto something on the apperance
Yes much better. Feels like the IOS desktop with jiggling icons that move around. I like it.
And labels! I'm content.
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Suggestion: Use Micro Surveys To Infuence Changes
I use midjourney and they always are conducting "micro surveys" to get quick feedback on what users would like. They may do 5 or 6 of these a week.
They may ask for example,
How do you feel about having icons in the toolbar with no labels?
- Strongly oppose
- oppose
- Neutral
- In Favor
- Strongly In Favor
Then in just a day or so, the admins / developers know if it's a good idea or not to implement a change they have in mind without investing in the development time first. Here's an (off topic) example so you can see how it looks:
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RE: Please bring back the previous interface for desktop
@Suty Please allow the enabling of labels... Nothing is more important that that. Icons that look like screen grab of a map are meaningless to me.
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RE: I do NOT like the new interface :-(
@stitch Me too. It's a mess.
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RE: I do NOT like the new interface :-(
@Suty The design should respect the fact that your entire user base knows the system already. If they find it less intuitive -- then it is less intuitive. There's 10 zillion layers -- who WANTS to remember what 10 zillion icons look like? You NEED labels. (and hovering over 10 labels to find the popup is not the answer.)
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RE: Appearance
Why not have an option at the top of the page, "Try New Interface" a month before launch?
Then you could let people try the interface, provide feedback and switch it off until things get fixed.
That would be far better than messing things up.
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New Interface Problem: Pinned icons Not Working right
I have items on my homepage that are not pinned.
I can't get rid of them. For example I don't want PM2.5 there. it's not pinned -- yet there it is. I also can't put them in order. If i pin the item it jumps to the top. Then i unpin it and it jumps back to where it is on the screenshot.
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RE: Overlay for April 8 total solar eclipse
These eclipse KML's are not on the "Latest files from Community" page any longer.
I have no idea where they are. Can someone explain? I looked around on these forums but couldn't find them.
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RE: Snow Accumulation Legend Is Hard To Read
@idefix37 Yeah but you're dong Percentages so you can do that. I'm doing inches for absolute values of snow which doesn't happen all the time.
What's the point of a legend if it's useless? It should be fixed.
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RE: Snow Accumulation Legend Is Hard To Read
@idefix37 I reset the number of steps to default and set the colors again. It's still stuck on the right at 9ft with no granularity in the most important middle area. It jumps from 4 inches to 20.
Without the settings open, how would I know if the area indicated is 8 inches, 12 inches or 16 inches? There's nothing on the legend guiding me.
Why let me add/remove steps if it has no affect on the legend? Why is it stuck on 9 feet? That's of no use unless you live in Alaska.
If I can't see the details in the legend I have no idea what I'm looking at on the map. Why have a legend if I have to remember the colors? (It doesn't snow every day, I'm gonna' forget.)
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RE: Snow Accumulation Legend Is Hard To Read
@idefix37 This doesn't seem to be working. I changed the color scale but it still shows a crazy amount of space up to 9 feet. Where I live, I never get that much snow. It's not showing the granularity of steps I specified. (I actually removed some steps to make it simpler.) I'm expecting the legend to show 18" on the far right side, not 9 feet.
You can see I have a yellow and red area that's not showing at all.
I tried refreshing my cache and a different browser that I never use for Windy. -
Snow Accumulation Legend Is Hard To Read
The legend for snow accumulation is hard to read
0 to 2 inches are given a huge amount of space as is 3-9 ft. They have almost no difference in the color.
Conversely, 2 to 20 inches are compressed into the middle third but are the most likely to contain the greatest interest.
This should be made more linear expand the middle third so it more clearly shows the difference between 6 inches and 16 inches (for example.)
The way it is now, you just can't tell but the difference between 5 inches and 16 inches is big.
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Lightning but No Thunder Circles
There have been times when I would get circles emanating from lighting strikes on the radar layer to show the thunder as it travels. But that hasn't been happening for me as of late.
I go to an area with active lightning and as new strikes occur there are no thunder circles.
Why is this? Do i have to turn something on?
I use the desktop and IOS apps for ipad and iphone.
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RE: Heat Index Heat Advisories
@Mayamacane I couldn't agree more, and while your at it add windchill since that's similar in cold weather.
These layers seem to be a matter of simple math based on the data that is there already.
I'm surprised it's not already a layer.
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RE: Heat Index
I couldn't agree more, and while your at it add windchill since that's similar in cold weather.
These layers seem to be a matter of simple math based on the data that is there already.
I'm surprised it's not already a layer.
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RE: Observation vs Forecast Hard To Read
@idefix37 I see what your saying there but it looks like the forecast model is a footnote on the popup (since it's below the row) -- not a mark of which line is which.
So if i go into this a month from now (or first time users), I'm going to first have to try and figure out which row is actual and which row is forecast.
A more proper way to display this would be to have the label on the row -- just like you do when you're explaining it in the how-to section of the documentation. This eliminates the need to have to find documentation to get the question answered. There's tons of free space to be able to include the label as the popup only occupies a small part of the screen.
From Your documentation (why not just have this type of label on the row so you don't need the doc?):
Think ease of use please. I mostly use the website.