Striking New York Times tech workers ask people not to play Wordle or other NYT games (www.polygon.com)
from scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to technology@lemmy.ml on 05 Nov 05:22
https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/1628369

Workers are striking after trying a failing multiple times to negotiate fair pay, standardize Remote/Hybrid options, and other basic rights. The strike comes the day before election day.

I guess fingers crossed at the NYT that the election website doesn’t tip over from too much traffic…

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jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip on 05 Nov 05:48 next collapse

Attention zombies: do not eat brains

ArgentRaven@lemmy.world on 05 Nov 06:21 next collapse

Well shit. I guess I can’t play it anymore. There’s still duotrigordle, waffle, and a million others though. Plus I was starting to see ads on the app.

owenfromcanada@lemmy.world on 05 Nov 06:47 next collapse

My other “dailies” include Rogule, Mazelle, and Hexcodle. Sometimes Decipher as well. Check them out!

foggenbooty@lemmy.world on 05 Nov 21:18 next collapse

As an early season Simpsons lover, I enjoy D’ohrdle.

riquisimo@lemmy.ml on 05 Nov 22:09 collapse

These are great! Thanks for sharing!

riquisimo@lemmy.ml on 05 Nov 06:51 next collapse

Just play on a mirror.

connections.swellgarfo.com/nyt/513

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works on 05 Nov 06:56 collapse

wafflegame.net/daily

Link for the lazy

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml on 05 Nov 06:37 next collapse

And as always, the majority response to this will absolutely be something along the lines of “I support writers but you can fuck right off if you expect me to inconvenience myself in the slightest most superficial way in solidarity with you because actually having to modify my behavior in the simplest way is where I draw the line.”

lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works on 05 Nov 10:53 next collapse

I have the same feeling that it’s gonna be like that.

kbal@fedia.io on 05 Nov 15:32 collapse

I don't think that kind of anti-labour attitude is likely to be prevalent among people who play daily NYT word games. A more mainstream response is probably more like "whatever, nerds."

kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world on 05 Nov 06:48 next collapse

There are alternatives that are arguably better.
You can play the exact same puzzles as on the NYT site without giving them your traffic. There are archives of their puzzles that you can play for free. If you like connections, go to www.connectionsunlimited.org. For wordles, go to wordlearchive.com. Just Google for archived versions of your favorite games.

Then there’s also other publications that have puzzle games live this. For example, as I like the mini crosswords, there’s a student publication, The Observer, that has these mini crosswords too: fordhamobserver.com/…/daily-mini-crossword/.

Supporting the tech workers at NYT doesn’t mean you have to give up your daily game addiction

EK13@lemmy.world on 05 Nov 09:51 next collapse

Thanks for that replacement mini crossword recommendation, I’ve only done today’s but I really like it already!

MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com on 05 Nov 14:05 collapse

Just here to add my favorite site. I’m a fan of basically all Japanese type puzzles from: www.brainbashers.com/puzzles.asp

onlooker@lemmy.ml on 05 Nov 07:04 next collapse

Shouldn’t be too hard. There are loads of alternatives out there on various platforms.

MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world on 05 Nov 15:08 next collapse

Done. Deleted that shit.

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 05 Nov 15:53 collapse

A reminder that wordle started life as a free, vanilla javascript website with no DRM and not owned by the NYT, you can download and run it as a single self contained HTML file from there github.com/sneakers-the-rat/local_wordle