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This is gorgeous. I was just discussing the need for a better thesaurus with my partner!

I love the quotes.

One suggestion — could you make the result words clickable? So as to let me go way down the rabbit hole?

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I just added a keyword search in firefox* for inspiration when I'm searching for a replacement word.

* Assign a keyword (e.g. care) to a regular bookmark but place %s in the url (https://carefulwords.com/%s). It gets substituted for whatever is typed after the keyword.

So my keyword is care and I can type "care joy" into the url bar which opens https://carefulwords.com/joy.

I will. I said to another person, I hesitated because I personally like to double click the word text to copy it, and that gets in the way, but enough people have asked for it.

I would second vtimofeenko’s suggestion to use an icon with a link to preserve double-click-to-copy.

I understand the wish but I think that would spoil the elegant design.

For a site like this, which has a very clear single function and which people are likely to visit again and again, it might be justifiable to have a small control somewhere on the page which switches all of the results between click-to-link and click-to-copy.

Each person is likely to have a fixed individual preference, so if you store that preference in a functional cookie then everybody gets their own way. Or, as your site would have it, their druthers.

Maybe you could put an icon next to the word that copies it to the clipboard when clicked. Some websites use an image of a piece of paper with a top corner folded over to indicate this is the copy button.

May I suggest the inverse - an icon with a link? That way the original "double-click and copy word" use case gets preserved

I like this. That would let you copy/paste more intuitively.

Why not keep both (copy, link) on a hover so that:

- it is easy to copy

- and navigate to that word's page

- and at the same time it will preserve the ability to click to select, too.

Double click to copy/highlighting word. Single click to follow link?

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