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Easy access to teleportation removes any incentive for manual exploration in OWOT, meaning that there really isn't much to find after you scroll past the chaos of Spam Central. It is for this reason that many YWOT users see their sister website as a more hollow experience.[[File:Look at this pizza.jpg|thumb|160x160px|Cross-site racism at play]] | Easy access to teleportation removes any incentive for manual exploration in OWOT, meaning that there really isn't much to find after you scroll past the chaos of Spam Central. It is for this reason that many YWOT users see their sister website as a more hollow experience.[[File:Look at this pizza.jpg|thumb|160x160px|Cross-site racism at play]] | ||
=== The Takeaway === | === The Takeaway === | ||
The general consensus among those who have spent time in both websites is that YWOT and OWOT simply fulfill different niches. YWOT is considered to be an open world text processor<ref>https://x.com/Orteil42/status/1293330316204154881</ref> | The general consensus among those who have spent time in both websites is that YWOT and OWOT simply fulfill different niches. While YWOT is considered to be an open world text processor<ref>https://x.com/Orteil42/status/1293330316204154881</ref> with a focus on manual exploration, OWOT is seen by most of its userbase as sandbox centered around experimentation(''Ex. with art and scripting''). [[Fp|FP]] has also noted that whereas YWOT users find meaningful content by exploring the canvas, users in OWOT do so by visiting other [[worlds]], [https://ourworldoftext.com/computer.yes many] [https://ourworldoftext.com/funbox of] [https://ourworldoftext.com/main which] are unique experiences in of themselves. | ||
Still, most users of the two WOTs believe their site to be superior and argue about it time from time; the dynamics of these discourses being biased towards whichever Discord server the argument is happening in. | Still, most users of the two WOTs believe their site to be superior and argue about it time from time; the dynamics of these discourses being biased towards whichever Discord server the argument is happening in. | ||