The weathr manifesto.

Seven rules. Everything the app does follows from them, and a feature that breaks one is the feature that goes.

  1. If there are people, there is weather

    A group with anybody in it always has a sky — never a blank screen, never "no data yet". Two people are a real reading and not a sample too small to draw, and your street, your city and your country already have weather over them the day you arrive.

  2. Say how you are, not something to be seen saying

    One tap: one of five symbols, at one of four levels. No caption to get right, no audience to write for, nothing anybody can like or score. Nobody performs a reaction, which is exactly why the answers stay honest enough to be worth adding up.

  3. Your mood is yours, and it stands until you change it

    You hold one mood at a time and it is the same in every group you are in — you cannot be stormy with your family and sunny at work. It counts in full until you replace it, overnight and through a quiet week. What time changes is how strongly the sky says it, and the app shows you that as well.

  4. One person is one voice

    However loudly you feel it and however many groups you belong to. Weather is the proportion of what people feel, not a count of them: a hundred people evenly split read the same as two. Nobody's mood weighs more than anybody else's, and there is no manager's version of the sky.

  5. Silence is not an opinion

    Somebody who has never said anything adds nothing to the mood — no default vote, no invented sunshine. What silence does is make the sky weaker, and weathr draws that rather than letting a quiet group pass for a happy one.

  6. Places show moods, never people

    Wherever there are people there is weathr, even one person, all the way down to a postcode, a building or a café, and everywhere you are, your signal counts. You can always cast blind, and at a postcode, an address or a café every signal is blind, on any setting, so nobody can tell where a particular person is.

  7. You speak to see

    Saying how you are keeps your groups moving for you — for about an hour where a lot is happening, and for up to a day where little is. When it runs out the sky holds still until you say something again. Your mood is not taken away and saying something costs nothing; there is simply no seat in weathr that only watches.

See it working

The demo needs no account and no download: a world of invented people, following these same seven rules.

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