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by reissbaker 1589 days ago
I thought about this as well, but sadly, last I checked some decently popular apps (Twitter, WhatsApp, some others) don't support emojis in URL paths, only in domain names. So the emoji technique could work for message threads in some apps, but it would look pretty strange in others.

(I've been helping @DungZeekFu a bit with Quordle and am curious for any ideas around this though!)
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altairprime 1588 days ago
Well, you need 180 characters, so are there 90 good usable characters, or 60, or 45 that will work?

I’m not suggesting doing a full UTF mapping onto base64, but just 1..180 mod 3 => char base64[3] would give you 182 board positions in three URL characters.

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altairprime 1588 days ago
*192, mobile typo, sorry
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reissbaker 1588 days ago
base64 would be pretty neat! I also wonder what non-emoji unicode characters are commonly supported in paths... If say, CJK character sets were supported by most apps, single-character paths would even work.
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jjnoakes 1589 days ago
Maybe make it so the emoji are shared without a URL, and anyone can paste the emoji into some place on the site to recreate the grids?
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