Doctor Whordle Debugging

[purplecat]

Is there is anyone out there who has played Doctor Whordle and doesn't mind risking losing their game history?

I tried to do something clever which involved displaying a message next time anyone opened up the game (to explain I'd moved from five to six letter words). Unfortunately this change runs slightly differently in the deployment environment than in the development environment. The upshot is that I can't view Doctor Whordle at all in the browser I normally play in. I've changed the code so the message no longer messes around with the local storage in the browser, but I've no way of checking if this has fixed the problem. It looks fine on every device where I've not played the game before, but I've only that one where I was keeping state and it still won't display at all on that.

So if there is anyone out there who's prepared to take the risk, can you open up Doctor Whordle - refresh the page if it isn't showing you a six letter word to guess and tell me if still works or if I seem to have broken it for existing players.

https://louiseadennis.github.io/doctor-whordle/

Comments

[eve11]

works for me. It says to hit the exclamation point in the corner for the message, and when I do, i see the message. (though exclamation has an extra 'm' in it, unless that's a british way of spelling it?)

[purplecat]

No, I think I just can't spell, especially when in a panic.

[eve11]

ha! I also noticed today, when I switched to "Play with a random word", it gives me the word, but every time I make a guess, it changes the screen back to my completed (6-letter) word of the day. When I hit enter again, it goes back to my 5-letter random word challenge and lets me complete it, but it flashes to the completed word of the day after each entered guess.

[purplecat]

OK that is very odd. I'm not aware of that behaviour happening for anyone else. What browser are you using?

[eve11]

This was on chrome version 111.0.5563.146

[purplecat]

I'm just tried on Chrome 112 and it's fine. I'm mildly perplexed. I can think of some reasons why you might keep getting the winning info message, for instance, but I'm a bit flummoxed why it keeps switching you out of random mode.

[eve11]

Ad or popup blockers?

[eve11]

Interesting, it seems to be working correctly now. I didn't change anything...

[purplecat]

OK, that's good. Maybe you got caught up in some debugging state from the couple of hours when I was frantically trying to stop it deleting everything.

[purplecat]

Maybe? I don't know much about how they work - but I'd expect them to block the win message, not unset the variable that dictates whether you are in random or regular mode.