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The article is talking about "the inevitable New York Times paywall", not one right now
by ihuman 5y ago
The article is talking about "the inevitable New York Times paywall", not one right now
- woolly 5y agoThe article also mentions this: > February 10 was the last day Wordle was still available at its old site. Which doesn't appear to be the case, it is still accessible at the powerlanguage address.
- davidbanham 5y agoThe future appears to be unevenly distributed. Some get redirected some don’t.
- jka 5y agoThat URL currently redirects to the NYT version of the game, although it's possible that browsers may continue to cache and display a previously-requested version of the page contents (avoiding a redirect, at least while the cache remains valid).
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- stolen_biscuit 5y agoThat's what I've got on my phone, hasn't redirected to new york times and still running the version on powerlanguage
- ihuman 5y agoNo it isn't. The powerlanguage address [1] redirects to the New York Times's version [2]. [1] https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ [2] https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
- dspillett 5y agoPicking at nits I know, but it is available via that site, not at it. And via a cookie wall. From a quick scan of NYT's policy I got the impression clicking "reject" might only reject their direct tracking not that of 3rd parties, though I didn't have time to look in detail first time I was redirected, and I've not yet found the right combination of free time and inclination to nip back since, so I could have come to the wrong conclusion there.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoSeveral people were redirected to the NYT version before I was, as discussed in my Wordle group. I suspect they did this as a gradual transition to validate the migration. I wasn’t redirected until yesterday.
- afavour 5y agoI keep seeing that but I’d be amazed if NYT paywalled it. They’ll just add derivative versions and stuff like that for subscribers. Much like how their daily mini crossword is free to all.
- _moof 5y agoWhen the NYT announced the purchase, they said Wordle would "initially" remain free to play. If I told you that tonight I will "initially" be watching Evil Dead II, you're going to have some questions about what I'm doing afterward. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-times-wordle.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-t...
- keithnz 5y agoI'd be amazed as well, they're far better off using it to promote themselves and try to bait you to try/look at other things. Paywalling it would just remove most of those daily users they just bought. Maybe when it dies off, then they will do that, but quite likely most people will use one of the many clones, especially the apps. The fad will die off really quick I'm thinking. To me it doesn't have the lasting power of things like sudoku.
- b3morales 5y agoSo where does the "procrastination" come in?
- _moof 5y agoNot saving the original HTML and JavaScript before the redirect was established.