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Weather apps
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 11 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, 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 11 complaints
- Updated app became unusable on the author's older phone, showing same data2025-01-12
- City names with spaces show as %20 in the displayed location2024-05-24
- Instructions hidden behind toggle in popup in select control; download-then-reupload process is confusing2022-07-23
- Forecast and observations load slowly, with observations lazy-loaded only after scrolling2022-05-05
- The interface is hard to read2022-02-12
- Message only appears in portrait mode, so landscape viewers don't see it2021-09-14
- The back button breaks navigation on the site2020-12-10
- Navigation feels unintuitive; tabs don't work as tabs and close button is hidden in bottom right2020-06-15
- Most Android weather apps are slow and poorly designed to use2020-03-31
- The link to the detailed forecast is hidden, so people have to hunt for it2019-02-01
- Bot fails to understand zip codes and US state names in queries2017-04-02