I’ve been peeking at the AJX webcam off and on today – looks like it’s been up. Sometimes you may have loaded the page up while the new image is still being created (especially goes for the animations, since they are larger and take a few seconds to process). If you notice an issue, first thing to try is wait a few seconds and reload the page.

Dan is the man as far as setting up Crestline cam presets.

The loop will always only be about that long (for 15 minutes). Here’s the math:

• Assuming we have all of the last 15 minutes (sometimes the camera will not upload an image due to lots of reasons – power being the most common), we get 15 total frames.
• Animated GIFs have 100 “ticks” per second.
• To slow things down a bit, we set the delay on each frame (how long the frame is displayed for) to 20 ticks (roughly 1/5 of a second).
• If we have 15 frames, that equals 3 total seconds (plus a 1 second delay on the end) – 4 total seconds length.

Dan is the man as far as the Crestline webcam goes (I don’t know much about that one – we’re just linking to it from the site since it can’t be embedded). This doesn’t help you, but I’m on a Mac as well and I haven’t had any issues with viewing/using the Crestline webcam. It always says “your browser is not supported”, but ignore that and everything seems to work fine.

Instead of scaling, Jerome had a good idea of just making 2 sizes available (standard and large). That’s done and up (you’ll now see 2 links below the webcam images). I also added a 1 second delay at the beginning of the loop so that it’s easy to spot the end/beginning of the looping.

The pop up goes as large as it can get and still display the image size at 100%, so in the case of the last-15 animation, it won’t fill your browser on most desktop sizes since the image is on the smaller side.

I can look into options on allowing scaling of the window.

Great! I actually haven’t touched the Crestline camera, so it’s possible something else is at play there (connection speed, computer, etc).

I had left off the temperatures from the graphs, since as I recall, only one of the weather stations was actually reporting temp data. Once CRS and AJX get updated to start sending their data again, I’ll take another look to see what we can get as far as temp goes.

For forecast temps, you can also click on the “View Details” link below the NOAA NWS forecast graphs on the right (underneath the windgrams). That will show you the full graph of all forecast data (temp, wind, etc).

Ok – baby steps:

• Main forum view has been updated – clicking on “Forums” anywhere on the site gets you to the main forum view, which now shows Topics sorted by last activity.
• Each topic in the list shows its title (clicking the title takes you to the topic itself), who started it (clicking the author name takes you to their profile), which forum it was posted in (clicking that takes you to the list of topics in that forum), and when the last post (reply) was (clicking that takes you directly to that last reply in the topic).
• On mobile sizes, this topic list is compressed a bit to accommodate the small screen – title (clicking that takes you to the topic itself), last post link is directly underneath (clicking that takes you to the last reply in that topic), and author.
• Paging buttons (previous / next) are at the bottom of the topic listing (if you’re super bored and just want to flip through all of the topics in chronological order of last activity).
• Removed “Active Topics” from the sidebar, as it was redundant with the main listing (that also means less scrolling on mobile sizes if you want to get directly to the recent replies or list of all forums).

There are a few cleanup items to do to turn off the threaded replies – that’s on the way.

Ok – Twister variation with less colors is now up. Let’s try it out for a while and see how it goes. Also, this is another version of that with black direction marker (instead of the whole marker being the direction color). Chime in if you think one is easier to read than the other.

I sense a new variation on the fly-in bomb drops…