Today's update makes Hubski a bit more like the morning paper. Hubski now has a weather forecast!
Here are my current weather conditions:
- Currently
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Temperature: 50°F
Feels like: 48°F
Light breeze
Scattered clouds
You can find a link to your forecast in the bottom menu. This is a first roll-out, and feedback is welcome. As you can see, we aren't going for a very data-driven type of weather report. The wind descriptions are from the Beaufort Scale.
Currently, the weather is based on your geocoordinates that are provided by your browser using getCurrentPosition().
If you have geolocation disabled, you won't be able to see your forecast. We are using the weatherbit.io API. The calls only include the latitude and longitude. However, if you think that's TMI, don't use Hubski Weather. The weather javascript is only served on the weather page.
If you are in the US, temperature will be reported in Fahrenheit. If you are outside the US, temperature will be reported in a sensible manner.
Feedback is appreciated!
it just didn't load data at first. It just loaded the Currently, Today, Friday, Saturday sections.
I shrugged my shoulders and checked email.
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A few minutes later, I came back to the tab, noticed that the sections seemed really far apart. As soon as I resized my window, they populated. I don't know if it was a glitch or if just happened to populate exactly when I resized the window.
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Now it loads fine (takes about 15-20 seconds), and no resizing the window needed. Weird. The slow load could be my home internet which has been shite for the last week.
FYI - Same experience for me yesterday and today. Eight unpopulated boxes for more than a minute. Went away. Came back, and it loaded.
On Mac running Chrome.
Potentially material side-note: I opened it by Command-Clicking the link, which opens it in a new tab, but doesn't switch to that tab automatically. I finished reading the posts on this page, then switched to the Hubski Weather tab... and it was like it hadn't actually loaded anything in the background. Like the moment I switched to the tab, was the first time the page tried to draw.
Is there some sort of "wait for focus" thing, that is stopping it from loading until its window is in the front...? (That'd be weird, but... I dunno... it occurred to me.)