[Feature Request] Please add weather API to Lemmy Communities
[Feature Request] Please add weather API to Lemmy Communities
It’s a short lived feature I loved having on Apollo as it made you feel more connected with the community you were lurking on as it would enable you to know the current weather conditions of the communities based on places.
For anyone who doesn't know what this is - Apollo had a feature (see image) that would show the weather at a location in the header of a location-related subreddit. For example, r/Tokyo would show the weather in Tokyo. This was only added in iOS 16 and was off by default iirc, which is why many people may not have heard about it.
I agree this is a cool feature, but it's far from essential so it'll probably be some time before we consider it properly. I'll add it to our backlog 👍
I used Apollo for years and have no idea WTF you’re asking for.
It was a feature introduced in the Apollo IOS 16 update that utilized the weather kit api to display weather status from city subreddits.
Here’s an excerpt from Christian Stelig’s notes:
Weather (Yeah!)
Yeah that’s right, that vegetable app isn’t the only one that can do weather! If "Subreddit Weather" is enabled in Apollo, if you navigate to a city’s subreddit (like r/Toronto, r/Perth, r/London, r/Denver, r/SaoPaulo, etc.) at the top of the subreddit Apollo will now show you that city’s weather, as well as the current time at that location. It’s pretty cool, when visiting some subreddits I feel more in tune with what’s going on there now. This uses Apple’s new, really cool WeatherKit framework.
Cozy feature indeed, although Apple’s API is $50/month after the first 500k calls, so…🤔
Instead of a weather api, it would be better to allow communities to specify locations (stored as coordinates probably?) to allow third party apps to do what they would like with it (like display the weather)
Either that or make a standardized way to put location information in the community description and then convince a third party app to support it