Storm Team 8 - WOODTV8 Weather

This version of the app is “not user friendly” I use to love this app, now I find it hard to navigate and the ads are i frustrating. When you finally get to the area you need for a quick and fast look because maybe you are working, this ad pops in and the close out x is so small that you end up opening the ad. Iam not joking but I nearly have thrown this phone through the wall a dozen times due to this very app. Let me give a significant suggestion to making your audience happy. Most users are not going to your site with the intention of staying on it and watching videos or reading stories or blogs, although an option for these is nice if you want further detail rather they are looking for the quick glance at the current weather conditions and then transition quickly to glance at the weather radar. Make these un-inhindered to slow the user to pop open the app (the earlier version would start with this page if you remember) and make the radar the next easy click to navigate. Try to keep the ads from full pop ups, if you have to have them put them in the periphery. Also ask yourself this question do e we provide this app to me money or provide a service to our viewers. Because thus current version and the last few years have proven you can’t have both!

This was my go-to app for years. I even put up with the redesign (which I didn’t like) and figured out how to live with the ads. However, when it started freezing when I tried to open it, that’s when I began to give it up. I thought maybe they’d have an update on here, but looks like the app is ignored or super low priority. Tried their news app that includes weather, but it’s super hard to find what the current temp is (it’s on the news side and not in the weather tab). I also didn’t realize we were under an advisory or warning from that app, so giving up on both their apps now after years of loyalty (and I don’t even get local TV so didn’t choose them for that). Now abandoning them for their “couldn’t care less” attitude.

Some things work and some things don’t. This app needs a lot of work to be something that works well. It’s difficult to work around the ads and there are too many popping up. Bill’s Blog is unreadable because the Continue Reading touch bar doesn’t give you the rest of the text but instead just reloads the page. It would be nice to choose Text forecast and have all the text instead of having to touch a second time to view it. It would also be nice to have the same forecasts align with the Wood TV8 app. The best part of this app is the radar. Being able to zoom out, move around, select layers, and activate a time lapse for current or future radar is very helpful.