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Louis J.

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2 Reviews by Louis

  • Weather Underground

12/22/19
• Updated review

Wunderground seems to have rebounded from its low point after IBM acquired The Weather Company. 10-day Outlook works again, and its graphics appear slightly enhanced. Personal weather station (PWS) reports, including day-by-day history, are working. The link to the NOAA forecast discussion, nonfunctional for months, has now been eliminated altogether. That's a backhanded "fix", but at least we can easily get the discussion from weather.gov. The Wunderground iOS app is also fully functional, and it still links to the NOAA discussion. Am upping my rating from 2 to 4 stars, in part because Wunderground avoids the hyper-commerciality of its cousin Weather.com.

Longtime user, now disillusioned
6/20/19
• Previous review

Wunderground.com used to be a great weather site. Since it was acquired by Weather.com which in turn was acquired by IBM, its usability has steadily declined. The link to NOAA discussion for your area no longer works, the 10-day outlook has quit displaying reliably. I've written to wunderground feedback and received no reply. This is death from a thousand cuts.

  • Bitly

8/22/19

Bitly used to be a highly functional free tool. All of a sudden it seems to be trying to turn itself into some sort of web metrics operation in an effort to monitize the service. Along with this comes a very confusing site redesign and stupid signup quiz. SAD.

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