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Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site (brolly.sh)
devindotcom 29 minutes ago [-]
This is cool and I appreciate how compact it is. I'd love to have this as a regular load on my desktop. My only note would be that the precipitation graph feels unnecessarily bulky - wouldn't it work with the same type of horizontal graph seen for the ones below it? I know precipitation demands somewhat more precision and immediacy, but you could also do a variable graph - left half next hour, right half next 12 hours or something.
jsax 21 minutes ago [-]
Thanks for the feedback!

I agree, it’s definitely something to work on as it takes up a considerable amount of vertical space.

I found the precipitation chart challenging as you need to present both the forecasted precipitation, and the potential likelihood of the precipitation occurring. Something I’ve considered is using a horizontal graph with different shades of grey through black in each bar to represent the probability, but it would somewhat reduce accessibility.

kachnuv_ocasek 37 minutes ago [-]
How do you turn on the text-only mode? I've tried Accept: text/plain but I always get HTML.
raajg 34 minutes ago [-]
Don't think it's 'true' plain text. HTML/CSS rendering 'like' plain text.

Still beautiful though!

wormpilled 27 minutes ago [-]
popalchemist 21 minutes ago [-]
DIG IT. This is how the web used to feel.
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