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

Vogon Poetry [1]?

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

Let's not insult Vogons, shall we?

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

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

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.

A pizza slice covered in pineapple [0]

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

They never said it was good poetry

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

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