Imho Wordle is better suited for the pick-up-and-go approach vs needing to login.
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#23> Ultimately, people should have control of their data, and they should have access to their data from all of their devices. Whether that is running their own or renting someone else's, that ultimately means the correct place to store web app data is on a server.
Hrm. But I don't have control of my data on a server. The person running the server does. There is currently no good way to satisfy both of these conditions on the web: control of my data, and access from all my devices.
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#24Regarding Wordle specifically, this allowed Josh Wardle to make the app a simple webpage with no backend necessary beyond serving the page itself. Is there something that allows someone like him to do that aside from LocalStorage?
Yes, IndexedDB.
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#25I kinda got the feeling that this article was mainly written to take advantage of the Wordle hype. Overall I didn't get much of substance and I felt that the main takeaway was disingenuous to what the goals of the developer were. As if it's always wrong to use local storage. I'm sure the developer knew the limitations of using local storage. And it definitely rubbed me the wrong way when the author called it "lazy" t…
The author does not have their own game and isn't promoting anything. Except that LocalStorage makes the author very sad.
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#26This article is a brilliant example of one of my favorite phrases: "Perfect is the enemy of good."
No doubt localStorage has a few issues and drawbacks, but none of them really matter to the majority of users. No one expects persisted statistics across devices without logging in. No users care about the technical issues moving to a new domain. Using it for Wordle got the job done well and sold for a million bucks. Obviously localStorage was good enough for that, and probably for most other cases people use it for.
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#27I kinda got the feeling that this article was mainly written to take advantage of the Wordle hype. Overall I didn't get much of substance and I felt that the main takeaway was disingenuous to what the goals of the developer were. As if it's always wrong to use local storage. I'm sure the developer knew the limitations of using local storage. And it definitely rubbed me the wrong way when the author called it "lazy" t…
The author does not have their own game and isn't promoting anything. Except that LocalStorage makes the author very sad.
Oh, you're totally right. I don't know how I misunderstood that sandstorm platform as being their game. Thanks for the correction!
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#28Seems like this article misses one critical point. Part of the wordle attraction was the friction free ability to play. Click on a link, type in a 5 letter word and you are playing. I suspect it would not have gained popularity anywhere near as quickly if step #1 was create an account.
I see it as one should not use local storage because some future owner (which might never happen) could have issues with your solution.
That is like insane argument.
Future owner should do due diligence and factor any issues in, NYT has a quick fix that will be there probably forever, but hey life goes on.
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#29I bet even now, long after the NYT’s check has cleared, Josh is filled with a deep sense of regret over his decision to use LocalStorage. It keeps him up, long into the night. What could have been…
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#30I should write a story about how I avoided using local storage for a few years assuming all sorts of things and wished I hadn’t…