Ask HN: Why is hosting a contact form so difficult?

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Web3Forms

#Apps #Web Tools #Developer Tools 17 social mentions

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Formspree.io

This is just for my personal website. It is mostly the SPAM. I started with the usual simple `contact.php` that emails me when someone fills the form. Then for the longest time, Wufoo[1] (a hosted service) took care of my contact form but I could no longer deal with the spam. I tried Formspree[2] as the free tier API works good enough for my personal use. Then stop dealing with it due to spam, again. I remember using Tally but gave up and ended up with a `mailto:` and asking Cloudflare to obfuscate[3] the email for robots. I just no longer deal with forms, or comments on my website -- just that -- a personal choice. Forms are the de-facto use cases for any web property. It looks and functions simple but someone has to maintain it and keep up-keeping it. It is no longer simple. 1. https://www.wufoo.com 2. https://formspree.io 3. https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/scrape-shield/email-address-obfuscation/.

#Form Builder #Surveys #Forms And Surveys 47 social mentions