Wordle Now Redirects to NYT • Hacker News Board

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by jedberg » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:21 PM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #7

It redirects on my Mac, but not on my iPhone, which still shows the old version, and I can't figure out why.

Same here, which is fine because I play on my phone anyway.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by omnicognate » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:23 PM UTC

xeromal wrote: post #8

m00n wrote: post #2

And they broke everybody’s streak in the process while reusing today‘s word… Way to destroy a good brand.

Stretch to call it a brand. haha

It's a brand the nyt considered worth 7 figures.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by omnicognate » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:24 PM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #7

It redirects on my Mac, but not on my iPhone, which still shows the old version, and I can't figure out why.

I initially thought it was continuing to show the old one on my phone but I just needed to refresh...

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by _bramses » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:26 PM UTC

"why are people acting like Wordle was some Marxist utopian co-op that got bought by Monsanto"[1]

my fav tweet from all the vitriol a solo developer is getting for selling their personal project

[1] https://twitter.com/quepaso_daniel/status/148858283450784563...

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by js2 » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:26 PM UTC

czzr wrote: post #3

m00n wrote: post #2

And they broke everybody’s streak in the process while reusing today‘s word… Way to destroy a good brand.

Didn’t break my streak.

It appears you have to replay today's word. I play it shortly after midnight and while my stats transferred, it didn't know I'd already played.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by msoad » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:26 PM UTC

They paid the money to own it. I am not mad about it. You can literally save the HTML and play it if you really care not to see NYT logo.

This is a good story for an indie game to be honest

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by heyheyhey » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:26 PM UTC

Disappointed it still releases at 12am for your timezone. Hate this system.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by omnicognate » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:27 PM UTC

_bramses wrote: post #14

"why are people acting like Wordle was some Marxist utopian co-op that got bought by Monsanto"[1] my fav tweet from all the vitriol a solo developer is getting for selling their personal project [1] https://twitter.com/quepaso_daniel/status/148858283450784563...

I've not seen a single comment criticising the dev for it. I'm pretty annoyed with the nyt though.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by gnicholas » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:27 PM UTC

I'm content to work through the archived backlog [1] for now, and play my local version after that.

1: https://metzger.media/games/wordle-archive

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by g_p » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:28 PM UTC

Rejecting the cookie banner pops up a timed overlay (only appearing after you dismiss the game's onboarding guide) telling you that your cookie preferences are saved, unless you don't save cookies...

If you don't save cookies, this appears for 5 or so seconds above the keyboard every time you load the site.

A small nag, but a good reminder of the decay in user experience as soon as sites start adding tracking and similar. Wordle worked fine without this, but there's presumably little/no acquisition value in the eyes of the NYT without this tracking.