Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

#1

Post by klohto » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 10:00 PM UTC

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

Changed font, added hamburger menu, as well as tracking of course.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

#2

Post by m00n » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 10:13 PM UTC

And they broke everybody’s streak in the process while reusing today‘s word…

Way to destroy a good brand.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

#3

Post by czzr » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 10:47 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.

Didn’t break my streak.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

#4

Post by jamesakirk » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 10:47 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.

I'm running Chrome on Win10 and my records survived the migration, so your mileage may vary.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

#5

Post by tuankiet65 » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 10:49 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.

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.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

#6

Post by krrishd » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:01 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.

Ah, I was wondering how it persisted the stats (which I presumed were stored via localStorage).

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

#7

Post by LeoPanthera » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:01 PM UTC

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

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

#8

Post by xeromal » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:03 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.

Stretch to call it a brand. haha

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

#9

Post by warning26 » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:06 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.

It persisted my streak -- not sure why yours didn't transfer. I did see the onboarding page again.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

#10

Post by axutio » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:15 PM UTC

I've been playing Wordle as a saved PWA on iOS, wonder how the transfer will work for that.