Forum - Front page update.

Kadalyn

The issues remaining is that apparently the timers aren't working for other timezones (though when I originally tried pacific and eastern it was fine?) and that there's a memory leak in the weather widget.

The design itself is solidified, it's just the code. You're welcome to work on it but you said you don't do JavaScript when I asked.

Kadalyn

I went ahead and did it without the timers. I guess it doesn't lose anything that way after all.

WhitePass

It's different and therefore I hate it! Although to be serious, "Patreon" is misspelled and the weather forecast is confusing for a couple reasons: In-game weather forecast lists "until" times while the wiki widget thing lists "starting" times and it does not label the big "current" weather. This makes it appear to always be wrong even though it appears to match up if you know the difference. It would additionally be phenomenally helpful if you could click on a region in the widget thing and get a full forecast.

Kadalyn

The title is now fixed. The timing thing makes sense, I'll adjust it. Does the big weather part really need a label? I suppose if it's in place of the time, but that's not as helpful if it were an "until" time.

A full forecast is a bit complex, there are several hundred entries in the full rotation. I tried to reduce this via the rainy weather activities thing since that's the only functional interest I think. Can you tell me what it is you want out of a full forecast? A full 24 hours or?

WhitePass

I am not sure how much any particular choice would "cost". Mabinoger's forecast was convenient, a few days in advance and it only needs to update once a day. Although it is clearly outdated you had the ability to see far enough ahead if you needed to align something to a schedule (say if you can only play in a 6 hour window). A 24 hour rolling preview would be neat if it's not expensive.

But like you said this is probably mitigated by the "next event" you already have. Understand that the home page is a sudden and drastic change. Many users are still getting 502's and the weather frequently won't even load anyway.

I am not in a position of great need for this information, I just noticed that the weather can be difficult to predict between the wiki and the game.

Kadalyn

I mentioned it on Facebook but the weather API wasn't up to the demand here so I had to take it offline. Good news is that means the 502s should stop. Bad news is no weather. lol

I see what you mean about the detail view. I'll see about implementing something like that after I fix the API.

Kadalyn

@WhitePass I made a long term forecast here. It looks awful right now but is this the functionality you're looking for?

Kadalyn

Yai has restyled the long term forecast for us and I installed it to all relevant pages. You can see the category listing here for now, and I'll see about links from the widget soonish.

Kadalyn

Okay, the main widget now links to the long-term pages.