Wordle fail — some players just lost their streaks and stats
Wordle fail — some players only lost their streaks and stats
Everyone's favorite daily discussion game Wordle has completed its move to The New York Times today, just the migration has left some players furious after their stats were lost.
The viral hit was bought by the NYT for a effigy in the "low seven figures" a couple of weeks agone, having gone from but a handful of players to more than a meg daily users in the infinite of a month. But while the NYT and the game's developer Josh Wardle both promised those all-important stats would transfer over seamlessly, that hasn't been the instance for anybody.
Several players have taken to Twitter to reports that they've lost their streaks — their record of successive victories — or even all their data including win and loss percentage.
My game stats all entirely reset too - Chrome browser on an iPhone. Anything we can exercise to get them dorsum??February eleven, 2022
My wordle streak has been reset by a issues with the migration 😞 motion picture.twitter.com/CxZ7Y7bhWZFebruary ten, 2022
This may not seem like a big deal to those of you who don't play it, but u.s. Wordlers are very protective of our streaks (I'thousand at 39, in case you're interested). Competing with friends, or strangers over Twitter, is a large role of the game — and without those stats, there's no way to prove how much of a genius you are.
The NYT itself has given mixed messages about the upshot. The game's help page contains this fairly definitive statement:
How can I transfer my game statistics to the new Wordle site?
Nosotros have automatically transferred your game statistics (including streaks) to Wordle's new abode on New York Times Games. Zippo to practice on your end.
All the same, straight below that, it and then raises the possibility that stats could have been lost — seemingly in contradiction of the start statement:
Help! My game statistics or streaks did non migrate correctly.
We have automatically transferred your game statistics to Wordle's new domicile on New York Times Games. If your information looks a petty different than you remember, first ensure you are opening the game on the same device and browser y'all used previously. Your game data is stored locally on your browser and your statistics will automatically transfer without whatever additional action on your role.
And today, the NYT has gone further and admitted on Twitter that some players have definitely been affected and that information technology is "currently investigating."
Howdy Wordlers! We are aware that your "electric current streak" has been reset today. Our Games team is currently investigating. Stay tuned for more #Wordle updates.February 10, 2022
The trouble is seemingly random, although presumably at that place is some logic behind it. Tom's Guide Senior Writer Kate Kozuch has lost all of her stats (and isn't happy about it), merely several others have been entirely unaffected.
On the plus side, some affected users have patently been able to become their stats back.
The upshot appears to be related to browsers getting confused past the redirect implemented to send users from the game's original domicile at powerlanguage.com to its new 1 at https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle. And the fixes suggested — which we oasis't tried ourselves — all involve tricking the browser into thinking it'south still at the original URL, fifty-fifty if merely briefly.
For example, i user reported that they were able to fix the issue past "copying the migration URL into Chrome" and another solved it past clearing their browser history for the last 60 minutes or and then.
Hopefully the NYT will be able to restore anybody's streaks and win percentages and not fuel the idea that information technology will ruin ane of 2022's large success stories.
This problem aside, there's no sign of that happening yet. Wordle is still free to play and the NYT has inverse very little in the migration. The font is slightly different, the Twitter link out goes to the NYT Games account rather than to Wardle'due south own, and there's a menu that lets you bound to other NYT games — but otherwise it'due south the Wordle you lot already know and dear.
If y'all've not yet joined the Wordle bandwagon and so at present is equally good a time every bit any to starting time, and then check out our Wordle tips including the best Wordle beginning words and how to play the Wordle Archive.
Source: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/wordle-disaster-some-players-lose-their-streaks-in-transfer-to-nyt
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