alt Hacker NewsI disagree.. Feels very sloppy to me:
- Time is UTC rather than local by default.
- Units are imperial rather than metric (i.e. not basing it on users locale)
- The concept of init time is not initially clear at all, so it's confusing when you click the calendar icon to see the weather forecast for a future date only to see it isn't an option, you have to use the slider.
- When changing the sidebar to the "detailed" view, most of the hovering element is cut off by the container so you can't actually read it.
And it took longer to write this comment than it did to find these issues. It's fine since it's clearly marked as experimental, but I disagree that it's "really easy to use" :p
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Time being UTC and init times are both meteorological standards, so I'm not sure why those are problems.
The legend and map colors seem strange, too. I haven't really put my finger on how or why (and I'm not going to spend much time on it), but:
Everything seems dark and desaturated, as if the the only clue we have (color!) for matching things up has been deliberately reduced.
And then: It sure does feel like the legend has even more of whatever-that-is going on than the map does.
I find it difficult to look at the map and understand the information it relays at the same time.
Time and units are toggled from the 3 dot menu. https://i.imgur.com/Vi6tvGW.png
Init time makes sense to me, it's when the forecast/model is initialized, letting you look back in the past to watch the change to the present and future.
The sidebar thing is weird, but it also can expand out.