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8organicbitstoday at 4:51 PM8 repliesview on HN

I don't think it's the code that makes WordPress valuable. I've been learning WordPress recently and haven't been too impressed with the internals. WordPress is valuable because of the ecosystem and support. I have no doubt that WordPress will still be a thing in ten years. What's the support plan for EmDash? I see commits are mostly from a single developer.

E: Oh, I think it's an April fools joke, I'm embarrassed.

E2: Apparently not a joke.


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kbdottoday at 5:01 PM

Cloudflare doesn't do April fools jokes. In fact, 1.1.1.1 was released on April 1st back in 2018 and now it's one of the most used DNS service in the world.

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jgrahamctoday at 5:40 PM

I can assure you this is not an April Fools. Cloudflare does not do that. This is a real project.

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Robdel12today at 5:12 PM

Hm, you might want to catch up on the Wordpress “open source” drama with WP.com vs .org, WP engine and Matt.

thisislife2today at 4:58 PM

There's always https://textpattern.com/ which is also as old as Wordpress (older?) and better coded. (See also thttps://textpattern.org/ ).

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reddalotoday at 8:02 PM

Oh, come on. It must be a joke. They can't be serious with this sloppy thing.

hatmanstacktoday at 4:59 PM

There might be pie on your face but they stole my line, https://github.com/HatmanStack/kill-wordpress

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codeuliketoday at 5:49 PM

Its impressive work from CF that lots of people in this thread are unsure whether its a joke or not, like a delicately balanced april fools for the hn crowd

calvinmorrisontoday at 5:07 PM

wordpress is valuable because it allows very bad developers / marketing people to write very bad code and get away with it, driving extremely low cost solutions for clients who are cost concious.

yes you want a global db handle sure ya lets delete all tables woohoo

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