Going by other people's experience with them[0], I wonder how long this post will stay up.

[0] https://twitter.com/AaronToponce/status/1387933438305394690

Here [1] is the same thread on nitter (a twitter alternative that does not require Javascript to read). Other nitter instances can be seen here: [2]

The twitter thread also contained a reference to this interesting article on "Why bother with What Three Words?"[3], which itself links to other interesting articles: [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

W3W is a neat core idea poorly thought through. Hopefully one day there'll be a truly open alternative that solves the many issues W3W itself has.

[1] - https://nitter.cc/AaronToponce/status/1387933438305394690

[2] - https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

[3] - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-...

[4] - https://blog.ldodds.com/2016/06/14/what-3-words-jog-on-mate/

[5] - https://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/blog/location-grid-not-an-...

[6] - https://medium.com/@piesse/open-location-code-what3words-74a...

[7] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18646650

[8] - https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-review-of-what3words

[9] - https://stiobhart.net/2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever/

[10] - http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=589

[11] - https://www.grcdi.nl/Address_encoding_versus_traditional_add...

[12] - https://www.grcdi.nl/linkspas.htm

check out Open Location Code (https://github.com/google/open-location-code) (aka PlusCodes)