[bayindirh]

The great irony is they still sport their "Code is Poetry" mantra on their website [0].

If code is poetry, Wordpress is a new genre of it, probably?

[0]: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Philosophy

[ralferoo]

Vogon Poetry [1]?

[1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Vogon_poetry

[bayindirh]

Let's not insult Vogons, shall we?

[chrismorgan]

If code is poetry, WordPress was written by William McGonagall <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall>.

[ahoka]

Wow, he wrote like if you prompted obituaries to GPT-2.

[Yokolos]

They never said it was good poetry

[tiborsaas]

They could just go a bit more honest and migrate to "Code is pasta". WP is also closer to a pizza slice than Michelin star fine dining experience.

[foco_tubi]

A pizza slice covered in pineapple [0]

[0] https://wptavern.com/wordpress-org-login-introduces-mandator...

[bell-cot]

Ask an old English teacher whether "poetry" implies anything favorable about quality.