Ask HN: Please give feedback on simple weather site: weatherfinder.info

This is a simple weather site with the ability to see regional comments. I'm posting it to HN for the heck of it as ya'll might appreciate it.

Backstory: I had the idea last fall after seeing umbrellatoday.com and thinking it needed IP lookup. I had a crude prototype up when the post about goingtorain.com was posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378987 After that, I put it the idea the shelf because the idea "had been done", but I always wanted to finish it.

I implemented some features people had asked for in that thread and put this site together. It uses Rails, caches queries to the weather service, saves cookies with your preferences, and uses the Tango icon set.

Jeremy

Auto IP lookup. It pulls up exactly the city I would get using weather.com.

Clean & Simple. You give me the information I want and get out of my way.

Design. It's very well designed for what it is.

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Here's what I don't like about it:

The comments. They aren't really useful or relevant. I suppose if you ever gain "critical mass" this might start to be useful, but I have my doubts. There's no guidance as to what I should be saying and why.

4 day Forecast. I think this deserves a little more priority on the page. I also feel like a horizontal format is more appropriate, but go with your gut. What you've done now looks pretty damn good for a small project.

Indentation. The text could use a little more structure than just indenting everywhere. This could just be nitpicky.

URL. .info's make me cry. just find a small, 3-5 letter work that's easy to remember, tack it on to weather, and get the .com. I prefer to http://bustaname.com because my super-smart friend made it.

Neat, though. I like it well enough.

Comments:

* It incorrectly thought I was 1200 miles away from where I am. Probably due to another ISP recently acquiring my local ISP and GeoIP databases getting confused now. It doesn't seem like anything I do can trump the GeoIP when I visit the site-- it always sends me back to the wrong state.

* I like the look and the local comments, I suppose. Those might be more interesting to those people in big cities.

* I don't like the "updated 1 minute ago" in this case. I plan to leave the window up for a few days on one of my other machines and that won't tell me jack when I want to refresh it unless it's counting down or if it has the actual date.

* Would be nice if it auto-refreshed every 10-15 minutes or something.

Looks nice enough.

The 'use Manhattan' link will set your location. So if you click 'use Manhattan', when you comment, it will give that as your location in the comment attribution.

The data is currently coming from the google weather API. I wrote a parser for the wunderground API as well, but the latency is so high that I went back to google. I may swith to NOAA for US IP's.

Agreed, a FAQ is sorely missing from this little site.