For years now we’ve been hosting the collaborative word list at my personal web site, and it’s been fine, but there are a few disadvantages.\u00a0 First, the list is completely reliant on my website, and if it goes down or changes something the list is down.\u00a0 Second, the updater program is a packaged perl script (!!!) that no one should be installing on their computer, because why should you trust me?\u00a0 To make things worse, this script stopped working on Macs a while back.\u00a0 Third, a detailed history of changes to the list were invisible to anyone but me, which isn’t ideal.<\/p>\n
GitHub always seemed like a logical location to host the list, save for one technical issue.\u00a0 If someone makes one change to the list and then completely reorders it, GitHub won’t be able to tell what changed, and will assume it’s just an entirely new file.\u00a0 Being able to tell what changed at any moment is very important here, so this technical problem kept us from making the switch … until now.<\/p>\n
Thanks to a friend who wishes to remain anonymous, we’re now leveraging the power of GitHub Actions and we can present to you the brand new collaborative word list in its new location on GitHub<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you want to join and help contribute?\u00a0 That’s wonderful!\u00a0 We’ve created a video tutorial on how to get started<\/a> which I highly recommend you watch.\u00a0 You’ll need to create a GitHub account, ask us to add you as a contributor, and you’re off.\u00a0 If there are any questions at all, please leave a comment or send us an email<\/a>, and we’ll try to help you out.<\/p>\n If going through GitHub sounds like too much of a hassle for you, no worries.\u00a0 This list is free for all to use in any way they please.\u00a0 You can download the list right now if you want<\/a>.\u00a0 While we prefer people to actively contribute and maintain the list, we are believers that access to a good word list should not be a barrier to entry for any up-and-coming constructors.\u00a0 Even veterans may be able to find a nugget or two in the list.\u00a0 So feel free to just take it and start using it.\u00a0 We would appreciate a comment if you do so, though.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For years now we’ve been hosting the collaborative word list at my personal web site, and it’s been fine, but there are a few disadvantages.\u00a0 First, the list is completely reliant on my website, and if it goes down or changes something the list is down.\u00a0 Second, the updater program is a packaged perl script…<\/p>\n