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Offline PaulMy

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A changed new-look WU
« on: February 01, 2011, 11:24:21 PM »
What do you think?
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Offline lddaly

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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2011, 11:26:47 PM »
Looks like you missed the first post by 2 minutes 30 seconds  #-o

http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=10424.msg100168#msg100168
« Last Edit: February 01, 2011, 11:33:34 PM by lddaly »
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2011, 12:41:59 AM »
I don't like it at all . It looks like all my stuff is missing and I am lost... Give me back the Old One, now...
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2011, 12:45:45 AM »
Quote from: WxGuy on February 02, 2011, 12:41:59 AM
I don't like it at all . It looks like all my stuff is missing and I am lost... Give me back the Old One, now...

http://classic.wunderground.com/
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2011, 01:04:56 AM »
Thank You very much. I am back in the swing again. As you can see I don't like CHANGE... Thanks again...
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2011, 02:06:31 AM »
I don't care for it either.  IMO there's too much wasted space with the layout.  On my widescreen monitor, I have about 3" of wasted white space on each side.  Bleh.....
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2011, 05:31:56 AM »
I prefer the old one as well....  thanks for the link to "classic".  :-)
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2011, 05:41:53 AM »
It's a nay for me. I like the old one, if I may say my two cent's worth. :sad:



Thanks for the old version link!
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2011, 08:49:03 AM »
The new look Sucks, the Contrast is very bad, they should offer a Classic Look Option. or I am Gone after working to get my station reporting.
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2011, 08:58:56 AM »
I over looked the link for a classic view, all is well now, but the new one still sucks.
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2011, 10:19:51 AM »
   I like it!!!  =D> =D>
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2011, 03:49:01 PM »
Old style is better for me
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2011, 04:04:54 PM »
The new style doesn't particularly bother me, but then - I'm not much for change, so another vote for old.

What I'm really miffed about is the loss of older history data. Not sure when that happened (it's the same way on both styles - 2010 is as far back as you can go on the daily reports). I need to go back to 2006 to recover history that was lost by a certain program so I can get my archives into WD. Used to be able to, but no more.
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2011, 05:05:22 PM »
Quote from: jgillett on February 02, 2011, 04:04:54 PM
What I'm really miffed about is the loss of older history data. Not sure when that happened (it's the same way on both styles - 2010 is as far back as you can go on the daily reports). I need to go back to 2006 to recover history that was lost by a certain program so I can get my archives into WD. Used to be able to, but no more.

I dunno about that. I just went to my station in classic view, and randomly picked today's month/day in 2004 and daily and monthly data is there.

http://classic.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KCASANLU1&day=2&year=2004&month=2&graphspan=day
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2011, 05:38:12 PM »
That's really strange. When I go to mine, the drop-down for the year shows only 2010 and 2011. I copied your URL and changed the ID to mine and did get the history data for 2007, but still with only a two year spread on the drop-down.

http://classic.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KAZPHOEN59&day=2&year=2007&month=2&graphspan=day
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #15 on: February 02, 2011, 06:01:39 PM »
Like the layout.

font is small-must be getting old

don't like my old info is gone.

Still vote yes
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2011, 07:14:19 PM »
I don't like any of you Peoples WU pages but mine is ok even tho I only go there maybe once in a blue moon. I got my own weather station to look at.. I leave WU for the people that haven't yet purchased a weather station..  :-P 
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2011, 09:15:03 PM »
Quote from: lddaly on February 02, 2011, 12:45:45 AM
Quote from: WxGuy on February 02, 2011, 12:41:59 AM
I don't like it at all . It looks like all my stuff is missing and I am lost... Give me back the Old One, now...

http://classic.wunderground.com/
Not sure I like it yet; however I tried signing out and looking at ad version and it looks nicer that classic ad version.

How long do you think they will keep "Classic" version around?
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2011, 09:21:20 PM »
It's another classic case of "It works fine so let's fix it!"     #-o
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2011, 06:16:10 PM »
jury is still out for me, at least they didn't mess with the moble app.

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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2011, 07:10:03 PM »
As with anything when you get used to a certain look it's hard to change. If Ken were to start using different forum software here tomorrow the result would be about the same. Some would like like it, others not.
What I am trying to say is that 6 months from now we won't even remember what the old WU looked like. It just takes a while to get used to.
By the way, I don't like it either.
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #21 on: February 04, 2011, 04:39:37 PM »
The 'classic' style was getting tired. The new style looks better but doesn't make best use of the available space.

Fonts are too small with no way to increase their size. Too much white space between rows of data and I have to use the scroll arrow to see all of my 7 favourite locations.

The width of the pages is set to 800 pixels. It really should be 1024 these days.

But they have no forum for users to discuss things with them. I don't know if they read these pages but they really need a way of engaging with their users without having to raise a ticket.

Later: They have added severe weather warnings for some areas outside of the US. I don't remember seeing these for the UK before so that's a welcome addition. But we still don't see as many advanced features as you guys like the Weather Radar which is still only available in the US.
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #22 on: February 04, 2011, 05:07:23 PM »
There is a place to voice your concern on the new site under the blog section.
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #23 on: February 04, 2011, 05:31:47 PM »
Quote from: ocala on February 04, 2011, 05:07:23 PM
There is a place to voice your concern on the new site under the blog section.

Thanks for that. I chose Community Chat but it's not a forum, just a chat area. Not really what I was looking for.
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Re: A changed new-look WU
« Reply #24 on: February 07, 2011, 07:46:57 AM »
I like it.  A fresh new look without being a radical change.
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