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Free Wordle
- vulcan01 5y agoA more accurate title would be "Backup Wordle": if you click on the settings button it says "backup-wordle". Besides, this is essentially someone who downloaded the (static!) Wordle webpage and then put it on a nice domain.
- systemvoltage 5y ago
- jbd28 5y agoCool story bro
- selcuka 5y agoMaybe it means free in speech?
- spenczar5 5y agoHow does the licensing of Javascript like this work?
- charcircuit 5y agoThere's no license, so using this site is pirating the game.
- TheRealNGenius 5y agoyeah, straight up piracy
- tobyjsullivan 5y agoThis is good old-fashioned copyright infringement unless the original author included some sort of license to the contrary (which I did not notice when looking at the source previously).
- banana_giraffe 5y agoGiven that most of the diff between this page and the real Wordle site is the removal of the copyright notices from the author and the Microsoft code he was using .. it's not licensed. Also, the encoding is screwed up, so the little emoji share text when you win is broken.
- ducktective 5y agoWhy this game has become popular all of a sudden?
- tobyjsullivan 5y agoIt is this generation's flappy bird
- pcurve 5y agoI think it is just difficult enough for people not feel frustrated by it, yet easy enough to have wins on regular basis. The fact that there is only one word per day is big part of its appeal too. It's almost like being back in an arcade, and you only have 1 coin.
- tony-allan 5y agoSharing makes it viral and it's a great game. Our family plays the game and shares the result on social media. It brings us together every day!
- selcuka 5y agoNice pun on the TLD.
- rcy 5y agoHow did the original author manage to get "low 7 figures" for something that could so easily be cloned?
- esalman 5y agoThat is the genius of it. Cheating in Wordle is so easy that there is no point doing it.. But sharing results etc. has high homophily effect.
- infectoid 5y agoI guess I'd like to ask the same question about NFTs. But I'm guessing it's the social licence NYT are paying for. The owner says it's theirs.
- jffry 5y agoI think it's more about potential trademark rights and the current userbase, who have built a habit of returning to the same page daily. Surely part of the deal includes at some point setting up a redirect from there over to the NYT-hosted incarnation.
- praveen9920 5y agoAny noticed that “Share” is sharing garbage characters?
- tony-allan 5y agoA work in progress!
- infectoid 5y agoLooks like the code got pasted into an editor that wasn't too interested in keeping that character encoding.