That would have been amazing.

Dark Sky Time Machine is amazing. For a start

Sounds about right

But why kill Dark Sky? What’s the point?

It would have been better if they just burnt the money the spent on Dark Sky.

Fingers crossed. Interesting to note the conciliatory tone of the new message. I should imagine the feedback from Dark Sky users has been overwhelmingly negative given how appalling the replacement is.

I weep for the death of this app.

A ridiculous decision by Apple.

Their own app doesn’t come close. Doesn’t even have the same weather forecast, let alone the interface being terrible (although admittedly a lot prettier than Dark Sky - way less functional).

Although one thing. I’m hoping it might stay on until April now? I get this new message in place of the old “we will needlessly kill this brilliant app on 31 December”: https://i.imgur.com/T0djYOK.jpg

“More info” goes to this page https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213526

Yeah it’s dogshit when used with a non-Apple device. It will drop on inactivity with infuriating regularity.

The workaround is, once you’re connected, open a window doing a continuous ping to something. That will keep the connection alive.