Internet Scrabble Club (2002-)
isc.ro is one of the most old school, classic, and beloved Scrabble servers, but its implementation is really outdated and has some notable vulnerabilities/bugs. For example, the rack tiles seem to be randomly generated on the clientside, and passwords are plaintext. For a modern alternative, woogles.io is much nicer.
This got me through lockdown. Good to see it's still around.
Poland has kurnik.pl (meaning “chicken coop”) with a version of scrabble called “Literaki”. It’s been around for years.
.ro is the Romanian TLD, which explains why "Romana" is one of the language options (Although it's not using the correct diacritics)
I lost too much time having fun playing Wordfeud on iOS, had to go cold turkey and uninstall it. (No idea how they dodged the copyright issues, it seems like straight-up scrabble to me...)
kind of dope, whats your stack/how'd you build it?
"isc" -> Internet Scrabble Club, for those of us who didn't know
Cool!
For anyone looking to practice, I've made two daily games featuring similar concepts:
https://clickword.org - use tiles to form words, placed words disappear, get as many points as possible.
https://spaceword.org - build a valid word grid using as little space as possible