New BoM website has rolled out (aussie.zone)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Tau@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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I don't like it, it's another exercise in taking a functional website and 'modernising' it by making it look like a mobile app (i.e. the make it look attractive to kindergarten kids school of design).

For my own use cases it's made it more annoying to get to the 7 day Canberra forecast, made the local radar harder to see, and I'm not noticing a link to the written ACT region forecast which I will want to look at in winter.

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[-] SteveTech@aussie.zone 10 points 3 months ago

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't actually mind it. There's now a bunch of layers that are selectable on the radar page itself, which were either nonexistent or hard to find on the old site. There's an easy to understand hourly forecast, instead of the text only one (which is still there), and I had no problem finding the 7 day forecast. Also there's finally HTTPS by default!

Of course if you don't like it, this still seems to work for the old website: https://reg.bom.gov.au/

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago

New layout is way easier to view on my phone. current temp, feels like, max temp, rain ml all immediately visible for my local area. And a big old button to push me down to a scrollable rain radar. Easy.