--- title: No, I don’t want to fill out your contact form | daily.dev description: Contact forms on websites are often broken, inefficient, and less user-friendly compared to using emails. They can result in errors, take a long time to fill... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/no-i-don-t-want-to-fill-out-your-contact-form-pkcvwgzaq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: No, I don’t want to fill out your contact form | daily.dev og:description: Contact forms on websites are often broken, inefficient, and less user-friendly compared to using emails. They can result in errors, take a long time to fill... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/no-i-don-t-want-to-fill-out-your-contact-form-pkcvwgzaq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pKCVwgZAq.png og:image:alt: No, I don’t want to fill out your contact form og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # No, I don’t want to fill out your contact form **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 8 min read · 9 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Contact forms on websites are often broken, inefficient, and less user-friendly compared to using emails. They can result in errors, take a long time to fill out, ask for irrelevant information, lack useful features, waste resources, and be irritating in various ways. Instead of contact forms, the author suggests using emails for general contact purposes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@augustomen** · 0 upvotes > My latest contact form hassle was that the website required me to sign up for promotional emails to submit. **@emekaadirije** · 0 upvotes > The email address should be easily visible as a mailto link if the wants to use that. > > A simple contact form isn't bad for a quick message on the website. --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#ux](https://daily.dev/tags/ux), [#customer-service](https://daily.dev/tags/customer-service) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/no-i-don-t-want-to-fill-out-your-contact-form-pkcvwgzaq) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"No, I don’t want to fill out your contact form","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/no-i-don-t-want-to-fill-out-your-contact-form-pkcvwgzaq","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/no-i-don-t-want-to-fill-out-your-contact-form-pkcvwgzaq"},"datePublished":"2024-05-04T21:10:54.774Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:29:02.242Z","description":"Contact forms on websites are often broken, inefficient, and less user-friendly compared to using emails. 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