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Lycos is not a relevant site any longer but after clicking through, one of the first things I notice is how they get temperature units wrong in the weather disp

Lycos is not a relevant site any longer but after clicking through, one of the first things I notice is how they get temperature units wrong in the weather display. They show the weather for my correct location, which like most locations should use Celsius but the site shows Fahrenheit. Bad. Maybe it's tied to the display language? But no, switching to non-English languages keeps the temperature in Fahrenheit as well. Having this kind of ridiculous thing in 2023 in a website that pretends to adapt to your location is enough for me to write it off as low-quality trash.

sethammons 4y ago
I know a guy, CEO of a company we all know, wont take financial advice from a guy with a beard and another who wouldn't take advice from someone without wooden soles on their shoes. It is interesting what signals we take for credibility, yours being temperature units on a website.
- pc86 4y ago
  Those two guys are just spouting boomer nonsense better left in the 50s, whereas this is "you didn't take 30 seconds to test manually, or 3 minutes to write an automated test for this extremely common and predictable thing." Not exactly comparable.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  I was once turned down for a position because (I later learned) my last name is also often used as a first name. The quote was "you can't trust someone with two first names".
- ACS_Solver 4y ago
  To clarify, it's not the temperature unit per se, that's just the visible (and common) manifestation of the underlying problem - a website that ostensibly supports an international audience, with geo-location and a dozen language options, gets the basics of i18n wrong. Other examples I've seen are automatically switching to the wrong currency or having wrong translations that are obviously automatic. I have no problem with websites that are clearly aimed at users from a specific country, which is often the US. That's fine. But things like this really erode my trust in a site, in my mind it creates a suspicion - if you explicitly show me you can provide services in my country and then get the basics about my country wrong, how can I trust your service works properly here?

sethammons 4y ago

I know a guy, CEO of a company we all know, wont take financial advice from a guy with a beard and another who wouldn't take advice from someone without wooden soles on their shoes. It is interesting what signals we take for credibility, yours being temperature units on a website.

pc86 4y ago
Those two guys are just spouting boomer nonsense better left in the 50s, whereas this is "you didn't take 30 seconds to test manually, or 3 minutes to write an automated test for this extremely common and predictable thing." Not exactly comparable.
JohnFen 4y ago
I was once turned down for a position because (I later learned) my last name is also often used as a first name. The quote was "you can't trust someone with two first names".
ACS_Solver 4y ago
To clarify, it's not the temperature unit per se, that's just the visible (and common) manifestation of the underlying problem - a website that ostensibly supports an international audience, with geo-location and a dozen language options, gets the basics of i18n wrong. Other examples I've seen are automatically switching to the wrong currency or having wrong translations that are obviously automatic. I have no problem with websites that are clearly aimed at users from a specific country, which is often the US. That's fine. But things like this really erode my trust in a site, in my mind it creates a suspicion - if you explicitly show me you can provide services in my country and then get the basics about my country wrong, how can I trust your service works properly here?