Australia's beloved weather website got a makeover - and infuriated users

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• Nbard@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It really is sfrustrating seeing page after page get a fisher-price makeover designed for mobile devices. People are using apps for those

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• Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A consensus was quickly clear: “Please bring back the previous format,” one person surmised on social media.

  “It’s awful, the most useful features are gone and it’s not user-friendly. A waste of taxpayer money,” another added.

  Others said the timing was poor: “Why change it on a day of severe weather?”

  There were some fans, including one who posted: “I like the new site. The front page is much cleaner”. But they were few and far between.

  What a time we live in, when social media vibes are enough to determine a “consensus” of an entire population. Have we still not worked out that the loudest people are almost always the miserable ones? People who are happy/content don’t tend to waste their lives screaming online about how happy and content they are.

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  • dueuwuje@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah agree, the BOM had given ample opportunity for the new site to be used, I was one of them. At no point have I had any real issue with the update and I actually think it is pretty good overall. What I have an issue with is the media and vocal minority whinging about it now, it just seems like a complete pile on for no real reason other than to whinge. And people really haven’t taken the time to get used to it.

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