---
title: "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
source_url: https://adamjones.me/blog/dont-use-contact-forms/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-05-04T21:10:54.774Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:29:02.242Z
tags: ["webdev", "ux", "customer-service"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 9
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# 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: <https://adamjones.me/blog/dont-use-contact-forms/>

## 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.

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Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#ux](https://daily.dev/tags/ux), [#customer-service](https://daily.dev/tags/customer-service)

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