Shortly after The New York Times bought the game for over $1 million, the usual URL people would use to play (powerlanguage.co.uk) started forwarding players to the NYT page housing the game. With this change, the publication announced that fans wouldn't have to worry about having their progress reset.

However, fans are saying that they're experiencing data transfer issues and that their stats for Wordle haven't been updated. In a statement to The Verge via spokesperson Jordan Cohen, The New York Times said that the stats should be updated under the new URL for the "vast majority" of players, but the same info is also available through the device on which you play Wordle.

"This data was not stored by Josh Wardle, and is not stored by The New York Times," the statement said. "The data exists in local storage on the user’s device, associated with the browser they use to play the game, and the URL at which they play the game." There was also no mention of when all the stats would transfer over to the new URL.