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- 11 months
I don’t know why people bother with AccuWeather, when there’s weather.gov, with it’s free API.
- kbotc@lemmy.worldEnglish11 months
Accuweather’s entire plan is to destroy free access to NWS data and charge people for access that they have. Trump’s just making it a reality and Accuweather’s laying their groundwork right now.
- 11 months
US only I suspect, and likely to be gutted by the Trump administration.
- atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish11 months
Weather.gov is amazing! I keep hoping that it survives the culling…
- 11 months
Hardly. You are headed towards a state where invading your resource rich neighbour starts to look enticing in far too short a period of time.
I already consider you our enemy, forever more. All of you.
- 11 months
Just fyi the people who own/ run it are assholes and the people who work there are miserable for the most part, so this isn’t surprising
- Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish11 months
You really should be providing a source when you make these kinds of claims:
Joel Myers’ Wikipedia article is pretty damning. He does sound like an asshole.
Myers faced criticism in 2005 when he supported the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005, a bill … that would have prohibited the National Weather Service from publishing weather data to the public when private-sector entities, such as AccuWeather, perform the same function commercially.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Myers#Political_activities
- 11 months
report found Accuweather “did not take reasonable action to prevent and remedy harassing conduct.” Joel Myers, who was president of Accuweather during the period covered by the agreement, signed a settlement where AccuWeather agrees to pay out $290,000 to at least 39 women, institute in-person training for managers to identify harassment, and send harassment complaints to a 3rd party till at least 2018.[13][14]
Hmm that lines up
- 11 months
I mean I could but that’s what all the people I know who worked there said, and me saying that is the the hearsay I’m sharing
- 11 months
AccuWeather is excited to share important updates coming this summer to the AccuWeather API Developer Portal,
Oh yeah, the famous “we are excited”. It must be a great news for YOU then… 🙄
- Kissaki@programming.devEnglish11 months
- excited to share
- to the Developer Portal (as if it were only a dev portal interface and not subscription or established flow changes)
- designed to elevate YOUR experience
- designed to ensure YOU get the most from them
- to better support YOUR development needs
- more powerful platform
- more streamlined platform
- to suit every stage of YOUR journey
- Discontinuation of Free Limited Trial Packages
Yep, completely dishonest corporate double-speak - and not just in the word “excited”.
None of this is surprising. People called it the instant trump defunded… everything
- 11 months
I stopped using these guys when it became clear they were doing everything they could to prevent the government from developing their own app.
- 11 months
REWRITE because I don’t know how to read.
My own home-grown weather page uses the API from openweathermap.org. That works really well for me, for a few years now.
- astronaut_sloth@mander.xyzEnglish11 months
I really like Open-Meteo. It’s worked really well for my weather-related projects.
- 11 months
My weather app uses that for weather data. I’ve found it more reliable than other people’s apps.
- realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish11 months
I’m happy they’re still going. I thought that defunding of NOAA would kill them.
- 11 months
Isn’t the primary purpose of all these commercial / non-FOSS weather apps to harvest and track location information?
11 monthsHuh. Pokemon GO uses the accuweather API. I wonder if they’ll start paying or if they’ll jump ship.
