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Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by roelschroeven »

blunte wrote: post #72
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…

> 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.

The word lists were (and are) in the site's javascript, readable for anyone who cares to look.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by kwertyoowiyop »

omnicognate wrote: post #91
thawaya3113 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except they have done nothing other than move it from his personal URL to their own.

And added trackers and a cookie popup to it, and censored the word lists (guess and solution). And their own statement about it implied they intend to put it behind a paywall eventually (wording was something like "it will initially remain free for new and existing users").

If they want to put it behind a paywall, charge $100 a game, show Taboola links, or make people log in to a NYT account, that’s their choice. People can vote with their feet then. I just don’t get why folks are so salty. Does everyone on HN work for free?

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by altairprime »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #105

i'm not getting a 3xx redirect (i assume that's what you mean?), I'm still looking at wordle at https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ If I do it in an incognito window... I get the redirect, yup. I guess my cookies for existin game history keep me at the original site?

I was seeing that yesterday, but I hit refresh this morning and got migrated to the NYT site, with my stats persisted across the migration.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by SturgeonsLaw »

anakaine wrote: post #177
banana_giraffe wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably reasonable guesses. Though, I'd expect these to be moved to allowed guesses, there's some very obscure stuff in the allowed guess list. Probably just a first pass by whoever's in charge of standards. Now I'm trying to guess if this was a simple pass with an "approved words" list, or if there was a mind-numbing meeting where they spent a day or two looking at words.

As someone from British English nation, there's no way I'm ever likely to guess FIBER unless I've exhausted FIBRE first. It breaks the brain. The ER phenomenon goes against every fibre of my being.

Also from a Commonwealth nation and I prefer the -er spelling. It looks more balanced, take the word center as an example, it plain looks nicer, and having a vowel flow onto a consonant for a hard ending means the spelling matches the actual pronunciation. I think centre at first glance would suggest a more French pronunciation - "cen-tray".

That said, I'll never forgive American English for what it did to Aluminium. The word Aluminium just sparkles and glitters like the metal itself, whereas Aluminum has a distinctly cold sound, like an echo in an empty hall early on a winter's morning.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by jrochkind1 »

altairprime wrote: post #184
jrochkind1 wrote: post #105

i'm not getting a 3xx redirect (i assume that's what you mean?), I'm still looking at wordle at https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ If I do it in an incognito window... I get the redirect, yup. I guess my cookies for existin game history keep me at the original site?

I was seeing that yesterday, but I hit refresh this morning and got migrated to the NYT site, with my stats persisted across the migration.

I got migrated to the NYT site today with my stats NOT persisted. :(

I wonder if some kind of security settings i had prevented it somehow.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by queuebert »

motoxpro wrote: post #145
queuebert wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely the creator could have made more money by serving ads or something. I doubt the NYT paid them the full lifetime value of the site. And anyway, isn't the NYT supposed to be reporting news or something? Since when has the most prestigious newspaper become a hub for fooling around?

What the heck? You want the guy to run ads on the site because you don't like the NYT? Thank god he didn't do that. What was the lifetime value in your eyes? Adding popups and paywalls like many other online games? He made > $1 million dollars.

I never said I don't like the NYT. It's important to read only what people say, not combine what they say with what you think.

I didn't realize he got over a million bucks. In that case, it was a good move. I doubt ads would've paid that much.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by [deleted] »

blunte wrote: post #72
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…

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Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by warrenm »

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.

I t had to be individual browser cookies - because I could redo the puzzle in multiple browsers on the same device all with different histories
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