The New York Times has issued a takedown notice to Reactle, a Wordle clone, which has meant around 1900 other versions …

The New York Times has used a DMCA take down notice to remove an open source Wordle clone called Reactle

  • becausechemistry@lemm.eeEnglish
    27·
    4 months ago

    I cloned the original website (it’s just a bunch of JavaScript) once the NYT deal went through and still self-host it. I changed a bunch of the UI text, specifically removing all the references to “Wordle,” and I think it’s just me and my friends that use it. Still works!

    • lol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      Same here. Didn’t even remove the Wordle mentions, just references to external resources and the Google tracking Javascript.

      • becausechemistry@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Oh, right – I definitely scrubbed the tracking stuff too. I wonder if that’s how all the clones were being found?