u/Static_Unit

Terrible app UI overhaul when viewing reports?
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Terrible app UI overhaul when viewing reports?

Over the past few months, the temperature reports graph was changing between a few different designs (I could sign out and sign back in, and the design would be different). It seems like there was an update recently that decided on a design, but it destroyed the usefulness of the temperature graphs.

A few terrible changes were made:

  1. You used to be able to scroll over the graph and it would show times, temperature, and temperature setpoints. Now, as you can see in the image, you can hover and scroll on the plot, but it doesn't actually show anything.

  2. The plot lower bound is now 0 degrees, which compresses everything up at the top, especially in the summer. The upper and lower bounds used to be just greater than the range of temperatures during the day, so the resolution of the temperature axis was much higher.

  3. A heavy smoothing was applied to the temperature lines, almost to the point where little meaningful variation can be seen in the indoor. It used to show much more detail.

All of these combined result in a plot that is now just qualitative. The lack of hover tool tips plus the lower bound being at zero means you cannot look and the plot and discern what the temperatures actually are. Looking at this image, can you really tell what the temperature and setpoints are?

I've basically swapped over to using beestat for viewing temperature history, but I miss having it all in one place. Has anyone else noticed this?

u/Static_Unit — 3 days ago