dark sky

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with dark sky, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 12 complaints

Charts are hard to parse because similar blue and teal shades blur together2026-01-11
Y-axis labels are tiny, rotated, and crowd out the graph; values hard to read2026-01-11
Apple's replacement lost the at-a-glance rain timing interface Dark Sky had2024-10-04
Notification settings button is hard to find, buried at bottom of page2024-07-30
Map colors make radar data hard to see; day toggle on hover is hard to use2024-07-30
Precipitation map tiles load for long periods or never load, and load the wrong area2024-07-30
Commenter found the app confusing even after years of using it2023-03-22
Detailed hourly view was hidden; user only found it by accident after years2023-03-22
Visuals don't show whether a storm is heading toward you2023-03-22
Hourly forecast icons are hard to tell apart, with blue raindrops blending into the gradient2022-09-13
Hard to quickly learn whether rain is coming and how long it lasts2011-11-02
Stuttery radar animation made it nearly impossible to tell when rain would stop2011-11-02