I think I covered this in another thread, but here's the issue with weather.
It's not just a simple matter of adding a weather widget to the default channel and calling it done.
Weather widgets require configuration (zipcode, etc), which means that these must be saved somewhere. Due to the security sandbox in Flash (and more importantly, the lack of storage on the CC devices), this data cannot be stored on the device itself without some hacking. This was handled in the old system by storing the configuration data on the server in a "widget instance", which is part of the "channel" associated with the user account.
The stub server doesn't have any of this infrastructure - it serves effectively static data and stores no state information except for some analytics I'm using to determine out the mix of devices in the field. In fact, the server could completely crash today and be replaced by another one with no data loss except for the analytics.
The only weather widget over which I have absolute rights is the NOAA Weather widget, since I wrote it - however, in addition to storage, it also relies on a backend service that was hosted by Chumby to convert zipcode to NOAA station codes. That was one of the services that was taken down at the end of February that would be restored if/when the full service comes back online.
One interesting side effect of switching all of the Chumby and Infocast devices over the stub server is that there are still thousands of devices still requesting weather data from the now defunct weather data server. They can't be my NOAA widget on any platform, since I changed that almost two years ago to get the actual weather data directly from NOAA (but still doing the zipcode lookup from Chumby) - and the NOAA widget isn't even available on the Sony dash because they have an exclusive arrangement with another company for weather data. This is chewing up about 10% of the total bandwidth.
As a side note to everyone - I'm in exactly the same boat as all of you. I'm not "cheating" and somehow running all sorts of fancy widgets on my devices because I have them. I'm seeing exactly the same clock on my devices that you do, and I want my old widgets back as much as you do.
We've only been on the stub server for a bit over two weeks - if that's all it takes to prompt a mass exodus away from Chumby, then we should probably rethink this.