The great WORDLE topic (Part 2)

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Have you all noticed the message on the header of the BBS homepage?

Discussions are moving to Substack as part of an ad-free Boing Boing! The BBS will transition to Read only on Friday, Nov 1. Join us for a free trial!

So, this Wordle topic will be read-only in one or two days. How many of you are planning to subscribe to Substack ad-free Boing Boing?

By the way, back on June 6th, I said that I had about two months worth of Spanish+English cognates left, but since then I have added many more. As of now, I have 49 cognates left, so this would have taken me closer to Christmas 2024, but now it seems that it will be cut short.

Looking forward to your comments.

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I have a subscription, but it’s a bit unwieldly. It’s definitely built for the writers rather than the commentariat. (I know, how dare they! :grin:)

Someone could start a chat with this as a subject, but in order for people to respond (maybe even read?), you’d have to subscribe to BB.

Not sure how much I will engage in SuS.

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I really enjoyed my time playing Wordle with all of you on this topic, but I will not subscribe to the ad-free Boing Boing. Today is a sad day.

Assuming we won’t be able to post on November 1st, tomorrow I will be playing my final Wordle using the perfect cognate FÓRUM/FORUM as my starting word.

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I have a subscription, but haven’t participated yet, just looked around a bit. As @subextraordinaire said, it’s unwieldy.

There is a Wordle chat that’s been started there, but (at this point, anyway) there’s no way to blur spoilers—so, people are just posting their score and the picture of their green/yellow/grey squares. That doesn’t appeal to me much…I wanna know the WORDS!!

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There is a Wordle thread, but Substack doesn’t offer spoiler text so you can’t post your guesses.

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And I wont be posting in substack. Frankly I don’t think I’ll be continuing Wordle either, since I can’t view streaks anymore.

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I’m think I’m going to set up a temporary private sub reddit for some of these posts that will never work over on Substack.

I think that might be the best way to temporarily keep in touch with a couple of these long running topics.

But they sure didn’t give us much time to figure out how this community could keep in touch.

I’m also researching a Discourse account to see if the affordable Starter account could host some of these topics that are photo heavy.

Discourse is free if you have have a dedicated server with root access but to use their hosting starts at about 20 bucks a month, that’s doable but I think it would be outgrown quickly with all the photos we post.

If I miss the cutoff of when we can still post I may DM one or two of you for some feedback.

My wife says I can spend some money to try if it’s not too crazy. I need a winter project.

There are some open source forums I can host but its the image hosting that gets tricky.

But, unfortunately, because they announced this so suddenly Friday may be it.

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La palabra del dia #1029 3/6

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square:
:white_large_square::green_square::yellow_square::green_square::green_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

(FÓRUM ZUBIA BUJÍA)

Wordle 1,230 3/6

:white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square:
:white_large_square::yellow_square::green_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

(FORUM BRIDE WEIRD)

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Wordle 1,230 3/6

:white_large_square::yellow_square::green_square::yellow_square::white_large_square:
:yellow_square::yellow_square::green_square::white_large_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

ADIEU DRIVE WEIRD

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Wordle 1,230 4/6*

:white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square:
:white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square:
:yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::green_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

SHRUG BRAND ROPED WEIRD

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Wordle 1,230 3/6

:black_large_square::yellow_square::green_square::yellow_square::black_large_square:
:black_large_square::yellow_square::green_square::yellow_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

ADIEU PRIDE WEIRD…seems apropos

Last Wordle from me. Cheers, everyone!

Hugs Love GIF by joeyahlbum

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