This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
The app is Clime Pro on iOS, they lock full access to Hurricane Milton data behind a $10 USD per week paywall.
If you’re in the area impacted by Milton, you can find publicly available resources at the National Hurricane Center’s website: National Hurricane Center
NOAA and NWS > paid bullshit apps
Weather data should be freely available
I mean, it IS freely available. I'm pretty sure many (all?) of these paid apps get their data from NOAA and NWS.
For now. Remember that Project 2025 aims to dismantle both organizations and privitize the NWS's activities.
Fact checking myself: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-what-project-2025-says-about-the-national-weather-service-and-noaa
1000%, half the reason for this post is I wanted to share the NHC link in the text of the post as an alternative to these apps.
Everything should be free!
Well the republicans take over, you will have to pay for all weather data. These apps are just ahead of their time.
Weather data is just liberal propaganda! The solution is to ban talking about climate change!
It's just like reducing COVID testing so we don't have as many cases. If we don't monitor the climate we can't say that it's changing.
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
I bet NOAA’s data will be sold wholesale too subscription app vendors.
If you're on Android and looking for a really nice weather app that's also FOSS, check out Breezy.
Wow, that's a beautiful app! Looks like it's probably time for me to ditch Shadow Weather.
Welcome to capitalism
fr. 100% free and already funded by your tax dollars.
But how can I complain about corporate greed then?
There’s still plenty of corporate greed to complain about, a la attempts to privatize the USPS, as a single example.
The issue is often framed as a burden: “the USPS costs American taxpayers x-billion/trillion dollars per year”, instead of the societal marvel that it is.
Try sending a standard letter across the US for less than $1 with FedEx or UPS.
The USPS was founded before the IRS, and even prior to the Declaration of Independence. That it’s technically older than the US, and one can still send a standard letter anywhere in the US for less than $1 is a service we need to protect.