Weather UndergroundReviews 668

I have been using intellicast forever. They killed it. Doesn't automatically load my nearest station, satelite view is now worthless and small, animation slow to non-existent and all else is slow or difficult to navigate. They need to start over with the previous version and then maybe try to add some of the new features of which some are good but not necessarily important. Meanwhile I will use my local TV station apps to get weather.

Very frustrated user here, I want to rant but I know it won't do any good. I'm a long time user of Intellicast and now that's gone and I'm left with nothing but FRUSTRATION trying to use this new program wondercrap. It is without a doubt, the worse attempt at something new and great that I've ever seen and trust me, there's plenty of crap websites out there to frustrate all of us, I think this one takes close to first place. I've been in computers both hardware and software since 1962 (yep, I'm old) and in all that time I've seen some great stuff and some crappy stuff and this is crappy stuff.

I'm thinking that what's going on in the software design and creation field is that there are very few people that know how to design software, then code such software and then test said software. This is not unique to designs for the web as I find the same poor execution within all platforms for software including IOS apps, Android etc.

On top of all this - the lack of support and testing has come to roost now, it's at it's lowest I've ever seen it.

I have tried to move to Weather Underground but nothing seems to work. I'm in Bloomington, MN but cannot get rid of Bloomington, IN for some reason, it's like it's built into the stupid program and everytime I turn around I've got maybe upwards of 15 to 20 Bloomington, IN in my favorite list and CANNOT get rid of them and if I manage to reduct the number of them to one or two entries, all of a sudden 15 or 20 or so of them come back all along the top at the favorites bar. Also, how come you can't delete weather stations?

Anyway, my blood pressure is getting up there so I'll quit my rant. Sorry if I offended anyone - but how in heck can this attempt just be ditched and we can have Intellicast back?

At least until the development team (if there is one) can redo this crap attempt.

With sadness, I've deleted my Intellicast links, as it appears those excellent sources of data are gone forever.

The Weather Channel's Weather Underground couldn't compete with Intellicast, so they bought it and plowed it under.

I will never view a Weather Underground web page ever again, or view even one second of The Weather Channel's broadcast, unless the Intellicast Interactive Radar map and East Pacific Animation pages are restored. I don't believe that will happen, so I guess this is a final goodbye.

From a business standpoint, how does it make sense to destroy the best product? What retention rates is Weather Underground seeing? Well under 20%, right?

Arrogant bastards!

Intellicast was exceptional. I used it for many years, every feature you could possibly imagine, told many friends about it also. But, alas, all good things must come to an end. Now, it has morphed into Weather Underground. :( WU is worthless. 10 day forecast hardly ever loads, their radar "maps" are useless and slow, no logical flow what so ever. There is a reason I never used WU before, I will never use it in the future. Time to find a REAL weather site. RIP Intellicast, you will be sorely missed!

Intellicast. May she Rest In Peace. Wonderful while she existed: Clear, succinct, intuitive interface & results. Plethora of features, not always used, but available & useful when needed. The ads: Meh. Usual junk with occasional worthwhile clickbait. But the website itself? You could bet your life on it. I did.

Wunderground.com: Worse than useless. Any advertiser I see on it: I'm BOYCOTT-ing!

Remember: Past performance does not predict future results. But HERE, it does. IBM bought Intellicast.com & turned it into Wunderground. Great. IBM, who inflicted this fiasco, are the same idiots who subcontracted & gave-away the rights of what became DOS & Windows to a bunch of kids (Bill Gates & friends, who became Microsoft) for essentially FREE (see: http://thisdayintechhistory.com/11/06/ibm-signs-a-deal-with-the-devil/), denying their own (IBM) shareholders TRILLIONS of dollars that would eventually go to Microsoft.

IBM has a LEGACY of foibles. How else could Intellicast.com get so screwed-up?