• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Public Facebook/Instagram content is now inaccessible to non-users

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I found today that I'm unable to view the damage survey posts from several NWS offices since they have been posted on Facebook and not yet on other open locations. Facebook lets you view only the first 1 to 3 posts on a page, then hits you with the "login"screen and blocks you from viewing more. It's essentially a paywall, with the price being the access to your personal data (name, email, phone, browsing) that you grant them by signing up for an account.

Facebook and Instagram are now completely closed-to-the-open-web sites.
 
Is this isolated to a couple of offices, or was this a system wide change? In general I have found NWS staff dislike Facebook because it keeps views without likes suppressed and doesn't show things posted recently. I have always seen offices post on both X and Facebook at about the sometime.

Side note: See if you can find what you want in: ArcGIS Web Application
 
I found this out yesterday simply trying to view the hours of a local market. Any business or other organization that wants to be accessible to the public is incredibly foolish (and doomed to fail) if they rely on Facebook as their only online presence.
 
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