Trash app
113 people sitting there staring at a map of Waukesha County like something’s about to happen, and the app just slaps up “This feed is off the air right now.” Then a giant orange refresh button, like hitting that is going to invent a radio signal.
Half the time the feed isn’t even dead. The app just lost the stream, choked on the server, or decided midnight on a weekend was a good time to lie to you. “Try Again” is developer-speak for “we don’t know, you figure it out.”
Enhance Audio. Show Captions. Volume slider ready. Map looking official. All the costume of a real scanner — and then silence. It’s a flashlight with no batteries.
Broadcastify-style apps have been like this for years: pretty UI, dead streams, and a star button so you can favorite the disappointment. The cops didn’t go off the air. The app just quit and blamed the feed.
