I wonder how successful Wordle would have been if it hadn't arrived at a time when the whole world was stuck at home and bored.

@philipwhiuk

19 күн бұрын

Probably still viral - plenty of people have 5 minutes on a commute.

Setting a donation service would have made him squillions and cost him nothing but tax.

@pieflies

19 күн бұрын

I’m not so sure that’s true. The majority of people will not do optional donations. Even less people will donate if they don’t perceive they get much value out it, and they will donate a smaller amount and will not likely do repeat donations. I don’t think many people think they are getting a lot of value out of wordle. Then you still have to worry about cease and desists for copycats, and whatever other tasks, however small, go with being the owner of it. Or you can just take the payout of more than a million dollars and walk away. I’d take the latter.

Wow, really nice thought experiment!

I wouldn't have played it.

@DylanBeattie

25 күн бұрын

@@AnnCatsanndra this is my favourite answer. 🤠

@jonaskoelker

21 күн бұрын

I bet many more would have reacted the same way. In general, the higher the price the smaller the number of people who buy the thing. I actually thought that would be the first punchline: that Wordle would've been a lot less popular.

@sanderd17

16 күн бұрын

Me neither. Not for the price, but because I don't give my personal data that lightly.

I would have never been so invested in knowing the spelling of 5 letter non-plural words.

Fascinating as always!

I love how everyone role you mentioned youd have to hire other than accountant is a position solo devs typically end up filling for their hopeful side projects.

great video Dylan! As an aussie , it kinda shocked me to hear your specific example referencing Telstra. Either you know your audience or are trying to tap into the market down under 😂 Either way you got yourself a new subscriber! P.S. i just noticed a Sydney ferry in your profile pic so thats where the Australian reference must have come from!

I play wordle without an account. It doesn't track my stats but I'm happy with that.

there would have immediately been free clones of it

I've made a few games using just basic JS, HTML and CSS, but I usually really needed to keep the cache deactivated to quickly redeploy to fix bugs or improve UX. Then again, I 'released' my projects when they were half done

@darekmistrz4364

24 күн бұрын

You need to use fingerprinting strategy for your assets

It would be so cool if we could make it easy for someone to pay a tiny amount of money. The problem is if it was easy to pay someone a small amount of money, we'd soon get begging and worried it would end up like email (I'm thinking of you talk on why we're not allowed nice things). He should have popped to a Wetherspoons with a load of mates and said I'm in the Red Lion in Reading on table 10. Buy me a beer if you want to say thanks 😂

@allesarfint

21 күн бұрын

Crypto works really well for small payments (i.e. dogecoin transactions are basically free) but yeah, is crypto

@pieflies

19 күн бұрын

I’d still rather take the NY Times payout.

Interesting video, thanks Dylan!

Interesting. It's a wonder to me that Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection has remained unsullied for so many years.

I've heard talk about this before, was it in one of your talks? Ok, i've watched it now. It has to be from your talks.

@SRG-Learn-Code

25 күн бұрын

I've thought a lot about how to enhance talks and one obvious way was to prerecord it with better audio, editing and graphics (since you can make those on editing and you don't have to trigger them manually they can be better). It's great to watch how that could look.

How exactly does what you mentioned at 4:13 work? The ISPs would not be able to read headers and make any informed decisions based on them if using HTTPS, what exactly is the caching solution you reference here?

@DylanBeattie

23 күн бұрын

OK, so the accurate response is "crap, I always forget that literally everything's on HTTPS now so anything based on caching headers is basically dead." My bad. There is a potentially interesting conversation about why Wordle would require HTTPS given there's no sensitive data being transferred, and another one about mobile telecom providers installing their own SSL certs on their devices so they can decrypt traffic in transit to do these kinds of optimisations... but, yeah. HTTP caching is one of those things I always forgot isn't anything like as widespread as it used to be. Sorry.

@JalisR

23 күн бұрын

@@DylanBeattie Thanks for the clarification! I tried looking it up and what I got was that basically all such functionality was discontinued. While Wordle (old one, at least) didn't need HTTPS I'm sure all the browser warnings would've prevented, or at least hindered, it taking off.

The dudes last name is Wardle?! 💀

Disappointed you didn't use a Obsidian Kanban board :P

It's almost like if we lived in a society where we valued giving things away, and just helping people meet there needs, everything would be better. 🥺 (Bring on the revolution! Down with capitalism!)

Put it on IPFS or comparable. Have players implicitly support their favourite game.

Squaredle kicks Worldle's @ss.

I keep hearing "Josh Wordle" whenever someone mentions him, and think it's one of those memes like sans undertale.

whats a wordle

gave up on wordle shortly after the NYT version, the xordle "variant" is way more fun anyway,

you can probably pay $0.00002 with a crypto coin such as brave rewards

Money is killing every good thing in this world.

Capitalism :(