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WordPress Forces Users to Agree That Pineapple Is Good on Pizza

by twapi on 12/16/24, 7:07 PM with 18 comments

• by elmerfud on 12/16/24, 7:29 PM

  It's highly dependent on the pizza and the pineapple and how it's cooked. In a general sense most of the time I've had pineapple on pizza it's not very good but there are specific instances where it was phenomenal.

  First you need to have fresh pineapple. Not that fibrous tough stuff that's not quite ripe yet but beautifully ripe perfectly sweet fresh pineapple. Canned pineapple is just trash you throw in a fruitcake.

  Next you need a pizza that's going to be spicy. Not a little bit spicy but we're most people will go oh my God it's very spicy. Generally a very spicy pepperoni works along with some additional hot peppers.

  Lastly you need to be able to cook it so the sugars in the pineapple gets caramelized without burning the pizza and without burning the cheese. Once you've accomplished these things you have a very awesome sweet and spicy pizza with pineapple on it.

  It is oh so rare to be able to find a pizza like this.

• by TomMasz on 12/16/24, 8:00 PM

  This is the kind of petty, childish behavior that reflects badly on all involved. I'm too invested in WP to change now, but if I was starting out I'd choose something else.

• by Terr_ on 12/16/24, 7:20 PM

  Even with the weirdness so far, I assumed the title wasn't literal. I was wrong.

• by m-p-3 on 12/16/24, 8:54 PM

  It would be funny if a user sues WordPress for being forced to acknowledge that pineapple is delicious on pizza because that user is allergic to pineapple.

• by gnabgib on 12/16/24, 8:43 PM

  Discussion (63 points, 3 hours ago, 102 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42433177

• by Reubend on 12/16/24, 8:42 PM

  I'd love for something to come around that has the vast ecosystem of WP but without the atrocious security risks.

• by Gunax on 12/16/24, 8:04 PM

  From a comment:

  > juvenile and silly. So much wasted time and resources. If you need to take legal action against another company, then do so. But please leave the users out of your shenanigans. It’s unprofessional.

  I think I disagree, at least to an extent. They are leveraging an open source tool. They made their business built around that tool.

  And as for the innocent users--this is such a small impact to users that I am not to worried.