Striking New York Times tech workers ask people not to play Wordle or other NYT games
Striking New York Times tech workers ask people not to play Wordle or other NYT games
The Guild is asking people to break their Wordle streaks
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....
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."
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."
I have the same feeling that it's gonna be like that.
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 https://www.connectionsunlimited.org/. For wordles, go to https://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: https://fordhamobserver.com/category/fun-and-games/daily-mini-crossword/.
Supporting the tech workers at NYT doesn't mean you have to give up your daily game addiction
Just here to add my favorite site. I'm a fan of basically all Japanese type puzzles from: https://www.brainbashers.com/puzzles.asp
Thanks for that replacement mini crossword recommendation, I’ve only done today’s but I really like it already!
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 https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/local_wordle
Attention zombies: do not eat brains
Done. Deleted that shit.
Shouldn't be too hard. There are loads of alternatives out there on various platforms.