Hi everyone,
Just checking in with you this week to let you know we're still here, still fixing, still listening.
And yes, that includes bringing rapid fire & decimals to our re-styled dashboard pages.
--Us
Wouldn't your company like to save a lot of time and money? Instead of re-inventing the wheel as a flaccid pancake, close this project, move on to something that needs fixing, and leave the old site as it is. Give everyone a link where we can leave glowing feedback for your bosses. Everyone wins!!! I can't imagine what the goal is here. 
Please?
If you had been following this thread for the last few weeks an explanation as to why this can't be done was given.
Weatheroger is correct. The details and explanation given by WU to move to new platform is simply that the old site had so many problems that it was necessary to move to a new non-legacy designed system so that it would make it viable to tackle the long standing issues. Not to mention the benefit from a management perspective to maintain the site with other future improvements.
Some of the long standing issues that were becoming difficult to fix are (Not all of them...just some off the top of my head):
- Ability to delete historical bad data by the user in the data charts.
- Better webcam support
- Favorites not working
- Overall reliability and speed of the site
- Support for PM2.5 and other sensors
- Modernization for increased trend in mobile use (although I think they got this wrong with the new UI)
- Yellow Star Quality Control improvements
- Fix map errors
- ....and much more...
It was just a better investment to start fresh than to continue fixing old problems on an old system. To us the users we don't see the back end and all the legacy code and legacy hardware...so it seems trivial to fix what you see...but it isn't. The old system was ambitious. A number of features had to be cut because it wasn't able to handle the load of users with all those features or they became features that just wouldn't work with the old system. 2018 focused on cutting features and improving site reliability and speed (they succeeded - but we miss features like for example MADIS and airport stations are gone). There was a time in late 2017 and early 2018 where WU was all but useless with the old platform that was just retired, it was too many users and too many ambitious features. After cutting features and fixing little things, reliability and speed returned. But there is still plenty not working with the old site.
When you have an old car that is constantly breaking you finally need to trade it in for something new or newer as the better investment. Even if you can't have the car of your dreams, a working car is better than a broken car that is costing you more or impossible to maintain. Then you save up and improve that newer car or get a better car when times get better. Granted WU missed the ball and they bought an early Tesla (remember all the issues the Model S had when it launched? and now the Model 3 is having its issue too).
I'd say we can expect some usability issues to be fixed soon. Then I expect to see later this year features added back that were removed last year, and also to see new features that we have never had. Yep this isn't soon enough for many. Which is why I say don't put all your eggs in one basket. I report to 10 online weather services...they each give me some value and a different perspective on my data and it makes it so that I don't have to rely on just one service. Next time don't get the weather station that just relies on one service...or improve the one you have now and use other services (most decent stations can be made to report to other services).
I say WU has done a tremendous job listening to us. We've been told fixes are coming to the new UI that we miss from the old site, and I believe them. We have access for now to the old site, at least till the new site is functional. We should all be happy that much progress was done in 2018 and now it continues in 2019. So to say the site has been broken for over a year is not really fair, as it has improved tremendously and there have been changes. Sometimes companies make mistakes. Microsoft did it with Windows and people were upset, but it was fixed years later. Coca Cola did it with Coke and then they fixed it. There are countless examples. Let's continue to be civil as we progress on this journey. It is okay to complain (I've complained plenty), but there is a nice way and a not so nice way.
