Canterbury Weather Updates was an amazing Weather forecast by Facebook page that was a couple of guys who started posted Canterbury weather.

After a wee while, they started trying to monetize it by offering text alerts, and personalised Weather Forecast, spamming their followers with advertising.

Then they wanted peoples photos for 'recognition' so they could post a calendar to cover their costs to post on Facebook.

Then they put a very advertising heavy website with a rather poor interface.

And now they've just stopped offering anything beyond the basic "Weather for today is" and asking for a monthly sub fee for see anything beyond today.

I posted a rather annoyed comment on their Facebook page, because they didn't mention this, providing a bait and switch "click on our website to see forecasts for your city" without mentioning the fact it now costs to see anything basically beyond a simple summary of todays weather.

They responded by deleting my comment and blocking/banning me from their Facebook.

I'm frustrated because they offer LESS than Metservice, or Weather underground, and spam everyone with advertising while abusing their "Just a couple of guys" attitude that gained them so much attention in the beginning.

I can't blame them, but I am angry about it, and their complete lack of transparency around the changes for what is frankly pretty lacking weather forecasts I followed because I liked their attitude, and now they've devolved into a corporate shill for Mitsubishi and whoever else will pay them for a service you can for free and better elsewhere.

If you ever read this - Good one guys. Nice to see you've become that which you fought so hard to avoid in the first place.