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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|246x246px|Cross-site racism at play in an YWOT Discord server]]

=== 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 while OWOT is regarded by most of its userbase as a sandbox centered around scripting. FP has also noted that whereas YWOT users explore their site manually, users in OWOT explore by teleporting to distant coordinates or 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.

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> while OWOT is regarded by most of its userbase as a sandbox centered around scripting. FP has also noted that whereas YWOT users explore their site manually, users in OWOT explore by teleporting to distant coordinates or 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 still believe their site to be superior and argue about it time from time; the dynamic of these discourses being biased towards whichever Discord server the argument is happening in.