You missed it:
After careful consideration, user accounts within the Dictionary.com app have been discontinued.
Not informative, but it's there.
As a result, users are no longer able to sign in to their accounts, and any saved word lists are no longer available.
Oh. Seems like they didn't want to spend money to fix their API framework. My observations on this point in a bit.
Unfortunately, since the coding technology that was used in the previous app version is different from what is used in the new app, it is not possible to recover word lists.
Bull. Ducking. Spit. And you can believe as much of that Bull Spit as you'd like. I could speculate but it does seem like a cash grab or that someone didn't get the source code and/or access to the backend data. I've worked for places were their vital, must work app - they forgot to put in the contract they own the source. And another place that outsourced their SANs and walked in one fine Monday to find all of them had been removed over the weekend for non-payment. Along with the backup tapes. (it's still in court).
Code changes? I'm not going to rant and rave about doing data transfers using output from a 20ma current loop teletype to RS-232 then to 8" floppy because it'll make yer eyes bleed. Or the fun and games using CPIO and DD to take data from 9 track tape to a SCSI DC150 tape - and mind the endian on that data stream. Data are fungible. They can always, ALWAYS be rearranged.
While we understand that this changes how you use Dictionary.com, we are hopeful that you will find the overall improvements provide faster search, additional content, and a better design.
Translation: We spit all over everything and hope you like the change in the taste, and if not... Oh well. Stinks to be you.
Metanote on API frameworks:
As things evolve or devolve, changes to the API are necessary. Leave wiggle room for you to meet those challenges going forward. No, I'm not going to get specific - that it the context for several books. I could write a few books on that but others already have, and likely more eloquently and patiently than I can. I will say that a api call with a version is pretty simple to do.