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fuckit
Call me troglodyte, but bom.gov.au have redirected their old and very functional website to their new all-singing all-dancing dumbed-down glitzy https server.
Was dreading this day.
"Discover your weather" - for me it's 'rediscover my bloody links to relevant pages'
@Sheep_Overboard I am not happy! I don't want freaking cookies!
@Sheep_Overboard The dumbing down is necessary for the weather persons? They aren't very cluey.
@Sheep_Overboard Yep. It is the warped lovechild of the new ABC+MyGov sites.
OTOH it could allow some fun. The old BOM site made most displays from server-side regenerated assets, unduly guarded by strict CORS. Meaning it was tricky to copy-pasta a page of your own with chunks of BOM presentation in it.
The new site has trundled the interactive stuff into ESRI mapserver endpoints. (no $urprise) Which at least for now are not using any auth/API_keys? So some hustling with Leaflet-or-similar JS gives hope to make simple refreshing displays to personal designs.
At least, this is the most optimistic spin I can find in a hour, after the initial horror.
Initial horror is right. The old site was so 90s but, dammit, so usable. As you suggest, there's probably much useful stuff that might lurk in that weather shopfront for dummies.
@Sheep_Overboard @ghost_shit And a lot of the things you used to be able to bookmark (like the rain radar for a particular location) you no longer can.
I'm glad I discovered my preferred iOS weather app now has a website too. All my bookmarks now go there (it still uses BoM data).
@Sheep_Overboard@infosec.exchange the new design, in beta since two centuries ago it feels, is shit. i share your bigly bucketting of it. silly peeps!
This is a forward thinking server running the Bonfire social media platform.
LGBTQA+ and BPOC friendly.
