Products · Broad category
Weather apps and sites
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 5 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Weather apps and sites, 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 5 complaints
- Automatic IP location makes weather sites a headache or unusable over a VPN2026-07-26
- EU weather apps generally have horrible user experience2026-02-21
- App is essentially unusable on iPhone 14 when ads load2022-12-09
- Table dumbed down; must toggle between table and graph, info hidden in tooltips2020-05-24
- Free trial silently converts to a $99/year subscription without a prompt beforehand2019-01-01