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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 dpark »

queuebert wrote: post #132
msoad wrote: post #16

They paid the money to own it. I am not mad about it. You can literally save the HTML and play it if you really care not to see NYT logo. This is a good story for an indie game to be honest

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?

> made more money by serving ads

That seems pretty unlikely. As a funnel to NYT games, the NYT decided this thing was worth over a million. It's very questionable whether Wardle could have extracted a million in revenue from ads on Wordle.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by AnonHP »

u2077 wrote: post #84

Is there a clone that keeps the old UI and the same answers? (Could possibly scrape the site or twitter posts to determine the answer each day) Wordle isn’t even gone and I already miss it.

https://wordle.nyc

It’s a complete clone of the original Wordle site (which is just HTML, CSS and JS, without any server side code), and was posted here [1] a few weeks ago.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30158391

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by jtr1 »

omnicognate wrote: post #83
jtr1 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a funny tweet, but in some sense it kind of was. It was a mostly universal, fun, communal experience that existed for a short period of time outside the pressures of the profit motive. It was valued for its use and not its exchange, it was free to everyone, and that made it a kind of small commons. I think everyone knew that couldn’t last. It was either going to fade away or get bought. I don’t personally kno…

It's a completely client side implementation. You can download it and point any static webserver at it and it works. I.e. making a perfect clone of it is a minute's work and practically free to host. So I don't agree that "couldn't last" is true. I mean zombo.com is still around, with essentially the same ongoing maintenance burden.

The code is trivial to download or even build your own, but the value of playing the same puzzle as everyone else is what’s getting paywalled. For a lot of people, the fun of wordle was solving the same puzzle and comparing notes with friends and strangers.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by greenyoda »

drexlspivey wrote: post #40

Excellent 3b1b video about trying to solve wordle using information theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA

Some HN discussion of that video a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30232413

Also, this interesting article was posted to HN the other day:

A Mathematician’s Guide to Wordle

https://aperiodical.com/2022/02/a-mathematicians-guide-to-wo...

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by greenyoda »

omnicognate wrote: post #83
jtr1 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a funny tweet, but in some sense it kind of was. It was a mostly universal, fun, communal experience that existed for a short period of time outside the pressures of the profit motive. It was valued for its use and not its exchange, it was free to everyone, and that made it a kind of small commons. I think everyone knew that couldn’t last. It was either going to fade away or get bought. I don’t personally kno…

It's a completely client side implementation. You can download it and point any static webserver at it and it works. I.e. making a perfect clone of it is a minute's work and practically free to host. So I don't agree that "couldn't last" is true. I mean zombo.com is still around, with essentially the same ongoing maintenance burden.

> You can download it and point any static webserver at it and it works.

You don't even need a web server. It works fine if you just save the HTML file to disk and open the file from the browser.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by m00n »

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.

The statistics worked for me too, just the streak was reset.
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