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#2355607 18-Nov-2019 11:38

I think it is too uniform - don't colours outside of white and blue exist?

One of my most accessed pages is rain radar... you have to scroll down to see it now. And, when you open, it is too big to fit on screen, and does not auto play. A static rain radar is useless as it does not show direction.

On the home page for my city ( without scrolling)...

old site -- current weather, today's forecast + 5-day forecast, mini-rain radar, and current webcam image.

new site -- current weather, today's weather, and tomorrows weather.

The old site provides a comprehensive view of the most important details without a single click.

The new site requires scrolling and multiple clicks to get the same info.

The new site isn't bad, just not quite so easy to use. I'll look to see what can be customised.

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#2355710 18-Nov-2019 13:34

Almost exactly what I said in the feedback form.
Old site had most of the information on view as you said, now everything is a scroll & few clicks away.

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#2356869 18-Nov-2019 17:05

tdgeek:

Humans dont like change ...

That's common corporate mantra, but it's not in the slightest bit true. Many, or possibly most, things are marketed on novelty. People pay a lot of money for the latest gadget even though they know it's utility is limited. People go to huge efforts to travel when the place they go to is no better than the place they came from. People will buy beetroot hummus when they know it's going to disgusting.

What's more people like to make changes in the same way that dogs like to scent lampposts.

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#2356907 18-Nov-2019 18:37

A third of the screen is ads. Yuck!

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#2356959 18-Nov-2019 20:28

The "new" radar pages are usually at least 2 updates behind the "old" one!

ie: The "old" Metservice radar page is up to 20 minutes more accurate for the current weather!

The "new" page was totally useless during today's storm in Christchurch, especially to track what was happening at the time!

20 minutes delay = useless!

As of now: (2026hrs)

"New" site last radar update = 2013hrs

"Old" site last radar update = 2021hrs

Why is there any difference at all?

It has been up to 20 minutes difference!

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#2380336 23-Dec-2019 11:53

Thanks Met "Service" for your amazing new site. I can't tell what the weather is going to do because you took away all the graphics for different weather events and replaced it with a wall of text.

Does anyone know of a decent website that serves up NZ weather?

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#2380343 23-Dec-2019 12:03

Here is the problem with New Zealand's Government Met service. We have Met Service and NIWA which are Government owned agencies commercially competing each other. We are one of the few countries of the world which doesn't have a free open weather platform.

Phillip Duncan has been banging on about it for years. He does have a vested interest as he is a commercial Met provider however he is right. The economic benefits to the country to free weather information are significant. Labour promised to do something but it all seems to have come a grinding halt.

The Metservice must have magical lobbying powers...

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#2380348 23-Dec-2019 12:14

DarthKermit:

Thanks Met "Service" for your amazing new site. I can't tell what the weather is going to do because you took away all the graphics for different weather events and replaced it with a wall of text.

Does anyone know of a decent website that serves up NZ weather?

You can still go to their old site at the moment - ironically even Google keeps showing this high up in searches!

services.metservice.com

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#2380358 23-Dec-2019 12:31

hairy1:

The Metservice must have magical lobbying powers...

Metservice are an SOE, their entire purpose of being is commercial,

They will have argued that the data they have is commercially sensitive to them and it is not in their financial interest to give it away for free

The lobbying powers are enshrined in the SOE Act which basically says if the government wants Metservice to do something non commercial tit has to pay metservice....

It was the same situation that Kiwirail had when it said Electric locos were too expecnse on the NIMT and they would dieselise the whole line,

When the govt said no, kiwirail said OK, your new direction will cost us $35 million, please pay here... they govt coughed up...

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#2380365 23-Dec-2019 12:48

Use another provider. Works fine for me, now that I am used to it, same issue last time it changed, we all didnt like it, but what we didnt like was change

Change is normal

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#2380421 23-Dec-2019 13:35

sbiddle:

DarthKermit:

Thanks Met "Service" for your amazing new site. I can't tell what the weather is going to do because you took away all the graphics for different weather events and replaced it with a wall of text.

Does anyone know of a decent website that serves up NZ weather?

You can still go to their old site at the moment - ironically even Google keeps showing this high up in searches!

services.metservice.com

https://old.metservice.com will also get you there

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#2380436 23-Dec-2019 13:47

wellygary:

sbiddle:

DarthKermit:

Thanks Met "Service" for your amazing new site. I can't tell what the weather is going to do because you took away all the graphics for different weather events and replaced it with a wall of text.

Does anyone know of a decent website that serves up NZ weather?

You can still go to their old site at the moment - ironically even Google keeps showing this high up in searches!

services.metservice.com

https://old.metservice.com will also get you there ...

... for the meantime. It was due to disappear early Dec so it can’t be long until it’s gone.

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#2380438 23-Dec-2019 13:52

boosacnoodle:

A third of the screen is ads. Yuck!

Was thinking, ads, what ads??, then remember the Pi Hole, so get yer self a Pi Hole, all ads gone 😎

Cyril

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#2380475 23-Dec-2019 14:52

cyril7:

boosacnoodle:

A third of the screen is ads. Yuck!

Was thinking, ads, what ads??, then remember the Pi Hole, so get yer self a Pi Hole, all ads gone 😎

Cyril

Or you can use the stylish theme I added that hides that ridiculous advert banner at the top that consumes a 1/3 of your screen!

Link: https://userstyles.org/styles/174561/metservice-nz-site

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#2384539 3-Jan-2020 11:37

Am (not) liking they way they seem to be trying to stop people, like me, from using the old site - the 10 day forecast has dropped to a 8 day forecast, then 7, now 6...

Guess the 10 day wasn't that good anyway, but still...

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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