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And they broke everybody’s streak in the process while reusing today‘s word… Way to destroy a good brand.
by m00n 5y ago
And they broke everybody’s streak in the process while reusing today‘s word…
Way to destroy a good brand.
- czzr 5y agoDidn’t break my streak.
- js2 5y agoIt appears you have to replay today's word. I play it shortly after midnight and while my stats transferred, it didn't know I'd already played.
- jamesakirk 5y agoI'm running Chrome on Win10 and my records survived the migration, so your mileage may vary.
- tuankiet65 5y agoApparently 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.
- krrishd 5y agoAh, I was wondering how it persisted the stats (which I presumed were stored via localStorage).
- jdorsey1 5y agoThis is clearly a violation of privacy because the url is unencrypted. NYT may face a billionaire lawsuit and his future is compromised.
- avl999 5y agoThe url is encrypted, the entire thing is over tls.
- jrochkind1 5y agoI find the idea amusing that exposing people's wordle scores would result in billion dollar damages. My life was ruined because someone was able to find out 60% of my wins are on 6 guesses!
- oh_sigh 5y agoAlso makes it really easy to forward a user to a nytimes phishing site. e.g. "Hey - did you see the new wordle? https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/?url=https://www.example.com/phishNYT https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/?url=https://www.exam... "
- g_p 5y agoSeems like hopefully an easy and obvious fix - no need for a fully open redirect here!
- pickledish 5y agoAh! Thank you for this, I was wondering how they preserved the statistics through a move to a whole different site (where the old local storage of course can’t be accessed)
- m00n 5y agoThe statistics worked for me too, just the streak was reset.
- xeromal 5y agoStretch to call it a brand. haha
- omnicognate 5y agoIt's a brand the nyt considered worth 7 figures.
- spockz 5y agoInteresting. This game has been on Dutch television (Lingo) since I was a small child. (At least if not longer.) what is so special about it?
- genewitch 5y agoColored boxes that you can paste anywhere that supports emoji/whatever that show your final game state. Sometimes it really is that simple.
- warning26 5y agoIt persisted my streak -- not sure why yours didn't transfer. I did see the onboarding page again.
- BillSaysThis 5y agoLost my streak :rage:
- slibhb 5y agoDitto. You can fix it: const d = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("nyt-wordle-statistics")) console.log(d) d.currentStreak = // whatever your streak was d.gamesPlayed = d.gamesPlayed - 1 d.gamesWon = d.gamesWon - 1 d.guesses["4"] = d.guesses["4"] - 1 // subtract the last game localStorage.setItem("nyt-wordle-statistics", JSON.stringify(d))