Wordle Now Redirects to NYT • Hacker News Board

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by hyencomper » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:29 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.

It did not redirect me on Edge. I'm in Singapore, so maybe that's why.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by BillSaysThis » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:29 PM UTC

m00n wrote: post #2

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

Lost my streak :rage:

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by micromacrofoot » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:34 PM UTC

heyheyhey wrote: post #17

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

care to elaborate?

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by civilized » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:35 PM UTC

I'm sure one talented programmer could code up OpenWordle and put it on GitHub in a few days tops

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by jdorsey1 » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:37 PM UTC

tuankiet65 wrote: post #5

m00n wrote: post #2

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

Apparently the old Wordle URL redirects to the new NYT page, and it includes the statistics as a JSON in the URL so the new page know what's the old statistics is.

This is clearly a violation of privacy because the url is unencrypted. NYT may face a billionaire lawsuit and his future is compromised.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by anthk » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:39 PM UTC

You can write your own clone with grep, sh and /usr/share/dict/words.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by spockz » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:39 PM UTC

omnicognate wrote: post #12

xeromal wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stretch to call it a brand. haha

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

Interesting. This game has been on Dutch television (Lingo) since I was a small child. (At least if not longer.) what is so special about it?

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by oh_sigh » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:41 PM UTC

tuankiet65 wrote: post #5

m00n wrote: post #2

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

Apparently the old Wordle URL redirects to the new NYT page, and it includes the statistics as a JSON in the URL so the new page know what's the old statistics is.

Also makes it really easy to forward a user to a nytimes phishing site.

e.g.

"Hey - did you see the new wordle? https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/?url=https://www.exam... "

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by kwertyoowiyop » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:41 PM UTC

omnicognate wrote: post #18

_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.

Why? They bought it, they can do whatever they want with it.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by jimbursch1 » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:41 PM UTC

What is NYT going to gain from this purchase? Or, what am I giving to NYT when I play this game over coffee every morning?