Current rating in log (OS X)

[Attilla de Groot]

> On 11 May 2020, at 17:37, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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>> On May 11, 2020, at 7:28 AM, Attilla de Groot via subsurface <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Yesterday I updated to the latest Subsurface version on OS X and I notcied that the Information tab was updated. This has a small display bug as in the attached screenshot.
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>> I think that with “Current” Strong/Weak should be reversed or perhaps not indicated in stars. :-)
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> There was some discussion about that when those new measurements were introduced.
> We settled on "the number of stars should reflect how good, how comfortable, how fun a dive was".
> So weak current, low surge, great visibility, etc.
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> I find myself at times disagreeing with this (even though it was MY suggestion), but every time I step back and ask myself "what's a dive with all ratings 5 stars - which is what we are trained as consumers to think of as 'perfect'?"
> And high surge, high current, high chill don't fit that perception. So that's why I think what we do is correct.

Ok, I didn't want to restart any discussion around this. It seems that you have given it sufficient thought and I can see that reasoning.


— Attilla