Submitted 4 months ago by zurohki@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
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The feedback window decided to annoy me by popping up by itself.
I figured I might as well complain about the weather radar taking more clicks to access the information I want.
The feedback window broke because the BOM site now relies on scripts from Google’s reCAPTCHA service which my browser blocks by default. Yes, I know this is mostly on me, but it was just the icing on the cake.
Ditto. I don’t block any captchas though.
Not being able to provide feedback is pretty shit.
But I just haven’t noticed any of the problems I’ve seen anyone reporting about the redesign. I’m honestly finding it so much better than the old design. The worst thing is the more niche parts of the site which are still awkwardly on the old design, like river/creek levels.
You want to bookmark a particular weather map? It’s…trivial. And the map experience is so much nicer now, since it feels like a real modern map with satellite overlays, instead of the awkward static pages that it felt like before. No more need to deal with arcane things like “64 km” vs “128 km” radars (wtf even is that measuring?) and move north or south in predefined increments, you can move around exactly how you would in any mapping app.
The capital city centres are linked from the home page, and you can find your own suburb with a simple search. Any of those can be bookmarked on their own. Here’s Brisbane. And here’s St Lucia, a suburb of Brisbane.
With the old radars I had to lookup my longitude and latitude for where we lived to find it on the fixed radar image, now it just centers the map on us on the forecast page.
That complaint really just come off as “change is bad” to me.
Zotora@programming.dev 4 months ago
Replace www with reg:
reg.bom.gov.au
Old site comes back. 😊