Re:Ask HN: Please give feedback on simple weather site: weat...
by JeremyChase on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @01:35PM
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Hardly anyone leaves comments. The idea to put comments in came from me sitting at the computer wondering if it was actually raining. I thought it would be nice if I could see if someone locally had said if it was or not(or if it had). Since no-one leaves comments it seems like a pointless feature. Not sure what to do with it now, maybe go look out the window.
Regarding the forecasts.. Yeah, it is pretty weak. I had planned on using Wunderground's API which gives you a lot more data (as I'm sure you know), but the latency is was so long that I just stuck with google. I may switch to NOAA to get more data for the current day's forecast, and current conditions. But I had spent enough time on the site and, was tired of delaying. It is just for fun, afterall.
Thanks for your feedback. Jer
i would make the current day's forecast bigger, since that's probably what most people want to see. the current conditions are not as important since you can easily see whether it's currently raining or whatever without going to the site.
also, what kind of comments are you expecting for visitors to leave? i would think that spammers would quickly fill them up with junk and drown out any useful ones, but i can't really think of what useful comments others would want to read on a weather site.