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Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by g_p »

sushid wrote: post #41
g_p wrote: post #20

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 sim…

How did Wordle track your progress and stats before? localStorage? I feel like this change is very subtle and very user friendly for an acquisition.

It still uses localStorage - see the key "nyt-wordle-state" in the new site.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by blunte »

banana_giraffe wrote: post #48

They've also removed the following from the list of words in future games wench, slave, fibre, agora, pupal, lynch And removed the following from the list of words that are accepted as guesses (in addition to the above ones): gooks, darky, pussy, spick, spics, bitch, fagot, dyked, coons, spiks, sluts, dykey, faggy, homos, chink, dykes, lesbo, kikes, whore Most of those I get, but why did fibre, agora, and pupal get p…

Fibre could be because it might annoy American players who object to non-American English spellings.

Pupal and agora I really don't get. Maybe some uneducated players would think pupal was some dirty word (related to poop???), but agora has no negative association that I can imagine.

As for the other removed words, I think it's fortunate for the Wardle guy that that list was not publicized before it got bought. That would have created a firestorm and possibly eliminated his chance of the sale.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by g_p »

oh_sigh wrote: post #28
tuankiet65 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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... "

Seems like hopefully an easy and obvious fix - no need for a fully open redirect here!

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by snypher »

sushid wrote: post #41
g_p wrote: post #20

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 sim…

How did Wordle track your progress and stats before? localStorage? I feel like this change is very subtle and very user friendly for an acquisition.

It is so tiring to continue to see this justification for something. Just because some other unnamed thing is worse, is not a reason to be only 'a little bit bad'.

Do you think that, on its own, adding cookie popups is very user friendly and very subtle? We shouldn't explain away an action because 'someone else is worse'.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by heyheyhey »

micromacrofoot wrote: post #23
heyheyhey wrote: post #17

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

care to elaborate?

The NYT Crossword minis release at 7pm PDT so everyone gets it at the same time. This way, everyone can corroborate times, talk about the puzzle, etc. if you want.

With Wordle releasing at 12am your timezone, it gets confusing when someone could be talking about the next day's or previous day's puzzle.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by blunte »

jker wrote: post #52
banana_giraffe wrote: post #48

They've also removed the following from the list of words in future games wench, slave, fibre, agora, pupal, lynch And removed the following from the list of words that are accepted as guesses (in addition to the above ones): gooks, darky, pussy, spick, spics, bitch, fagot, dyked, coons, spiks, sluts, dykey, faggy, homos, chink, dykes, lesbo, kikes, whore Most of those I get, but why did fibre, agora, and pupal get p…

Maybe they’re agora-phobic.

I considered this, but there's nothing wrong about "just another phobia", even if it may be the meta-phobia-to-rule-them-all.

The self-circular nature of agoraphobia is fascinating to contemplate though :)

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by throwaway81523 »

Kylekramer wrote: post #46

So this is a bit silly, but I got today's Wordle with a somewhat lewd slang for a female body part for the second word. Tried replicating in the NYT version, and said it wasn't in the word list.

Wait, I just played the NYT version and that word was one of my guesses, and it was accepted as a valid guess, but not the right answer. The right answer was an unrelated word with letters in common.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by jimbursch1 »

henryfjordan wrote: post #63
jimbursch1 wrote: post #30

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?

Just as Atlassian bought Trello to hedge their dominant position in Kanban board hosting, NYT bought Wordle to hedge their dominant position as daily-word-puzzle purveyors.

Is hedge the right term, as in hedging a bet? Or are they reinforcing their dominant position?

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by jimbursch1 »

paxys wrote: post #62
jimbursch1 wrote: post #30

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?

You are going to their website, and they will soon start upselling you their games subscription.

So essentially it’s a marketing play?
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