Pretty neat trick Wordle used to migrate everyone's saved game ... • Aaron Parecki

Pretty neat trick Wordle used to migrate everyone's saved game state:

The main Wordle site was replaced with a bit of JS that grabs the game data from LocalStorage and puts it in the query string when redirecting to nytimes.

Also notable: that code is vanilla JS, no libraries!

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Fri, Feb 11, 2022 8:15am -08:00 #wordle

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- philbowell micro.blog/philbowell
  
  @aaronpk amazing thanks! It worked perfectly 👍🏻
  
  Sat, Feb 12, 2022 10:55am +00:00
- philbowell micro.blog/philbowell
  
  @aaronpk didn’t work for me, none of my stats came across.
  
  Fri, Feb 11, 2022 6:01pm +00:00
- richText micro.blog/richText
  
  @manton Josh Wardle mentioned this, and other under-the-hood stuff that I found interesting, on the Syntax podcast this week. (Domain transfer stuff in particular, sounded tricky.)
  
  Fri, Feb 11, 2022 5:37pm +00:00
- Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com
  
  say... that gives me an idea...
  
  (Warning: don't click this if you haven't already migrated your actual wordle stats)
  
  Open this link and then look at your wordle stats page 📈
  
  https://aaronpk.com/7i1BP
  
  Fri, Feb 11, 2022 8:49am -08:00
- Vittorio twitter.com/vibronet
  
  Also, it didn’t work for me 😛 lost all the stats. Wondering if it’s a Safari thing
  
  Fri, Feb 11, 2022 4:42pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- manton micro.blog/manton
  
  @aaronpk That's cool. I play Wordle on both my phone and laptop, so already my saved data was fragmented and didn't sync up, but nice that NYT thought of this and kept it simple.
  
  Fri, Feb 11, 2022 4:39pm +00:00
- rama twitter.com/stopasyougo
  
  The way it was built is as fascinating as playing the game.
  
  Fri, Feb 11, 2022 4:18pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
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- Keith J Grant twitter.com/keithjgrant
  
  I wondered how that did that (and was on mobile so I didn’t notice the url params)
  
  Fri, Feb 11, 2022 4:19pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)

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