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Adam Jones
Personal blog · adamjones.me/blogwebbusiness
Adam Jones's personal blog at adamjones.me covers web and business. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “I don't want to fill out your contact form”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post to argue against using website contact forms. The thread concerns whether the linked form rejects valid email addresses containing non-ASCII symbols.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I don't want to fill out your contact form2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-04
What Hacker News says?
The contact form is linked in the article [1], and it rejects genuinely valid emails. You can try it yourself and see it doesn't have greyed examples, and that the problem is not example.com but the use of symbols. For example, greffe_acces@montréal.ca is a valid in-use email [2] that is rejected. example.com was only used to take an example screenshot. [1] https://adamjones.me/blog/dont-use-contact-forms/#:~:text=m…
Comment linking /blog/dont-use-contact-forms/
on “I don't want to fill out your contact form”Submitted I don't want to fill out your contact form as a story · 324 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do cheap GPS trackers work? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I don't want to fill out your contact form (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion