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Weather Underground
Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 10 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Pages take 55 to 82 seconds to load on a fast connectionUnreviewed
20112026- Pages take 55 to 82 seconds to load on a fast connection2018-10-17
- New site takes over 30 seconds to load fully2015-04-15
- New page takes much longer to load, painful on dialup2011-02-05
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 19 complaints
- Site is useless now; very hard to find community-generated content2024-06-08
- App's recent UI update is abysmal and hard to use2021-06-07
- Information removed or buried in hard-to-find places, and the interface is much slower2020-06-16
- Graphs and app are slow and often broken, with little formatting choice and missing wind history2020-06-15
- App takes forever to start and often loads no data2020-03-31
- Website is slow, spammy, and has bad UI2020-03-31
- Website is super slow and bug-ridden after acquisition2019-06-14
- Default weather map view loaded so many stations it froze browsers2018-10-17
- Newer site is slow and hard to use, making the 10-day view frustrating2018-10-17
- Pages take 55 to 82 seconds to load on a fast connection2018-10-17
- New site takes over 30 seconds to load fully2015-04-15
- Hugely cluttered UI and ads take up much of the page2011-10-19
- New page takes much longer to load, painful on dialup2011-02-05
- User couldn't figure out how to switch units to metric2011-02-05
- Branding and administrative content at the top stay visible even after the first visit2011-02-04
- Page is slow to load, so the user waits five seconds and gives up2011-02-04
- Actual content sits halfway down the screen below an oversized header2011-02-04
- Can't find any link to the forecast on the main page2011-02-04
- Redesigned site is described as unusable, so people switch to older versions2011-02-04