James PoniewozikDec 7, 2022

Reminder to anyone who supports the NYT staff's labor action: unless a miracle happens and we get a contract deal by midnight, we will be walking out for one day tomorrow, Dec. 8.

We'll be asking supportive readers to abstain from visiting/using NYT offerings for the day, midnight to midnight. That means articles. That means multimedia. That means... Wordle.

I know. That one pains me too. But maybe the word will be like LYMPH and we'll all be lucky to miss it.

Show threadBradDec 7, 2022
@poniewozik re: Wordle
Show threadWilliam VambenepeDec 7, 2022
@bk1e @poniewozik If it's midnight to midnight Eastern time, then presumably those of us on the West Coast can avoid breaking our streak by playing after 9pm on Thursday?
Show threadBradDec 7, 2022
@vambenepe @poniewozik I think the crossword has a >24 hour window, but I'm not sure about Wordle. Goodbye Wordle streak.
Show threadWilliam VambenepeDec 8, 2022
@bk1e @poniewozik Wordle window is 24h, but being on the West Coast my 24h window maps to 3am->3am East Coast time, so it overlaps over 2 different days (East Coast time).
Show threadBeedgeDec 8, 2022
@vambenepe @bk1e @poniewozik in that case presumably wordle becomes available to you at your 9pm? In which case you will have to miss one. Or does it not work that way?
Show threadWilliam VambenepeDec 8, 2022
@Beedge @bk1e @poniewozik It doesn't work that way. Wordle becomes available for everyone at midnight of their local time (or more accurately whatever time zone their phone or computer is set to). So to me in California it becomes available every day at midnight (so at 3am Eastern time).
Show threadirne jawe
@vambenepe @Beedge @bk1e @poniewozik this sounds like some really silly reasoning to me
Dec 8, 2022 at 9:18amWeb
Show threadBeedgeDec 8, 2022
@pewterbaw @vambenepe @bk1e @poniewozik maybe its not intuative, but I dont think its silly. Now that I think of it Wordle becomes available to me at midnight (GMT) , so there is a window of opportunity (which I missed) to obbserve the boycott and hold on to my streak ( if I had one, which I do, its currently 0 )
Show threadirne jaweDec 8, 2022
@Beedge @vambenepe @bk1e @poniewozik I mean that's a lot of mental gymnastics to do instead of just supporting the workers
Show threadBenj Soule🫂💙HumanityFirst🌅Dec 8, 2022
@pewterbaw @Beedge @vambenepe @bk1e @poniewozik Which reminds us that we should all support migrants, and jobs that perform seamlessly in the background of our society all the while knowing that not one job is substantial more important or at all than another job. We all need these roles if you think about it, we just want our fair shake without being downtrodden on by the guy at the top who's thought it necessary to horde all the resources.