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Contact forms are almost always worse for users than just putting an email on your website. I explore why they're terrible, why you've done it anyway, and what to do about it.
Why your contact form sucks
Your contact form is completely broken
It's remarkable how many contact forms are just straight-up broken. A WordPress upgrade here, a change to your CRM there, and your contact form silently breaks.
At time of writing, B&Q's contact form just plainly doesn't work1. I am fairly amazed that a retailer with revenues in the billions doesn't notice written queries have stopped coming in.
[...] Contact forms are hard to get right, and often just a worse experience for everyone involved. Go forth and remove your contact form and list your email on your website now!
[Ed. comment: click through and read the lengthy, but hard to argue against, complaints about web-based contact forms]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Freeman on Thursday May 09 2024, @03:52PM
Once upon a time I used Thunderbird as a mail-client. I get that it can be useful, I just don't need yet another app when the default "client" to access my e-mail has always been a website. I essentially have only ever had 3 e-mail accounts, one each at 3 different providers. Somewhat recently one of them complained, because it was getting full. I'll eventually have to deal with that. Considering it took close to 20 years for it to get this far, I can probably kick that can down the road for a while longer. Future me may be unhappy at current me, though.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"