@Suty said in I do NOT like the new interface :-(:

@Coelacanth Hi, yes we see these feeedbacks and consider all potential changes. However, I have to tell you that is not planned to get back to the old version, but we think about adjustments to the new version.

You folks at Windy are obviously not listening to your user base. Your answer shows both ignorance and arrogance. Not a good sign for the future.

You took a perfectly good and usable/understandable interface and changed it to something that only a programmer could like. When informed of those facts you can't admit the mistake.

New menu with icons instead of text is HORRIBLE!!! All the icons looks the same which was not the case with the text menu.

Also where is the altitude slider which I use all the time?

Go back to the previous layout or at least give us an option to do that.

@Suty
Please tell us why you think that? I have played with it for hours and still have no clue. I can tell you that I am not going to spend 50 hours learning how to get back to the place I was a week ago before the change.

@Bigjapi

See you Windy. It was great while it lasted and then you folks screwed it up. One more for the dustbin.

@Suty said in I will not renew if you don't come back the the old easy buttons.:

@enrico-truffelli Hi there, I am afraid that the new design will stay in Windy. However, do you have any specific points, that I could forward to colleagues for consideration?

Yes, the specific point is to allow the option of the previous interface.

Maybe I should say, let's make the selection of various options using text labels that have dropdowns for all options for that selection.

Do not make us click a menu button that pops up a box that takes up 1/3 of the screen in order to select the altitude we want to see for winds.

@GrigoryA said in Appearance:

@ivo
I might start to be repetitive, but:

• you decided to destroy perfectly working system just because of what? I perfectly understand devs ego to do "state of the art" things just because they can, but it's kindergarden behaviour. Unfortunately this new UI is the state of the wrong art. Did you do any research beforehand? Did you show your brilliant idea to a single paying user and get anything close to "it's exactly what I dream about!"?
• you are not the first company (and for sure not biggest) who shoot itself in the foot for no reason. But why? why would you do it? Could you control your devs ego a bit?
• it's your problem that plugins are not converted to new UI. On what basis did you decide that 2 months is enough time for plugin maintainers? Do you realize that one or other pluging might be the major reason for user to pay for windy? You could easily postpone this new UI till majority of plugings will be converted... And believe me no one will be missing your new UI even if it will be posponed for 20 years..

What you can (easily) do now:

• revert back to prev version for people who ask for it - all of us?
• make windy-2 and satisfy your devs ego there. You may make separate subscription for it, experiment to any level of madness/excellence there. People will switch to new in no time when new will be at least as useful as old one.

PS.
your Sounding implementation is not as useful as one from plugin. Just have a look side by side and spot the diff.

100% correct.

@vicb Huh? Windy is not nearly as useful as it was a couple of weeks ago.

A few days ago the UI became completely different and not usable. Weird icons etc. What happened?

@Suty Dream on.

Your new changes to the UI have made
Windy better, but still not as good as it was before the big change a couple of weeks ago.

You folks just don't seem to get that change for change's sake is not the correct path.

Unless the UI gets better I will not renew my premium subscription, just too much hassle trying to get the information I want/need.

@Suty Maybe you all lost your collective minds at the same time?

The new interface is horrible.

@Suty Dream on.

@vicb Huh? Windy is not nearly as useful as it was a couple of weeks ago.

Your new changes to the UI have made
Windy better, but still not as good as it was before the big change a couple of weeks ago.

You folks just don't seem to get that change for change's sake is not the correct path.

Unless the UI gets better I will not renew my premium subscription, just too much hassle trying to get the information I want/need.

A few days ago the UI became completely different and not usable. Weird icons etc. What happened?

@Bigjapi

See you Windy. It was great while it lasted and then you folks screwed it up. One more for the dustbin.

@GrigoryA said in Appearance:

@ivo
I might start to be repetitive, but:

• you decided to destroy perfectly working system just because of what? I perfectly understand devs ego to do "state of the art" things just because they can, but it's kindergarden behaviour. Unfortunately this new UI is the state of the wrong art. Did you do any research beforehand? Did you show your brilliant idea to a single paying user and get anything close to "it's exactly what I dream about!"?
• you are not the first company (and for sure not biggest) who shoot itself in the foot for no reason. But why? why would you do it? Could you control your devs ego a bit?
• it's your problem that plugins are not converted to new UI. On what basis did you decide that 2 months is enough time for plugin maintainers? Do you realize that one or other pluging might be the major reason for user to pay for windy? You could easily postpone this new UI till majority of plugings will be converted... And believe me no one will be missing your new UI even if it will be posponed for 20 years..

What you can (easily) do now:

• revert back to prev version for people who ask for it - all of us?
• make windy-2 and satisfy your devs ego there. You may make separate subscription for it, experiment to any level of madness/excellence there. People will switch to new in no time when new will be at least as useful as old one.

PS.
your Sounding implementation is not as useful as one from plugin. Just have a look side by side and spot the diff.

100% correct.

@Suty said in I will not renew if you don't come back the the old easy buttons.:

@enrico-truffelli Hi there, I am afraid that the new design will stay in Windy. However, do you have any specific points, that I could forward to colleagues for consideration?

Yes, the specific point is to allow the option of the previous interface.

Maybe I should say, let's make the selection of various options using text labels that have dropdowns for all options for that selection.

Do not make us click a menu button that pops up a box that takes up 1/3 of the screen in order to select the altitude we want to see for winds.

@Suty
Please tell us why you think that? I have played with it for hours and still have no clue. I can tell you that I am not going to spend 50 hours learning how to get back to the place I was a week ago before the change.

@Suty said in I do NOT like the new interface :-(:

@Coelacanth Hi, yes we see these feeedbacks and consider all potential changes. However, I have to tell you that is not planned to get back to the old version, but we think about adjustments to the new version.

You folks at Windy are obviously not listening to your user base. Your answer shows both ignorance and arrogance. Not a good sign for the future.

You took a perfectly good and usable/understandable interface and changed it to something that only a programmer could like. When informed of those facts you can't admit the mistake.