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> to remedy a form submission The correct way to deal with an error in general is to return the form as filled by the user on the error page. Sadly so many SPA

> to remedy a form submission The correct way to deal with an error in general is to return the form as filled by the user on the error page. Sadly so many SPAs just ignore this, that I usually manually copy before submitting any meaningfully sized text. > I would probably just never go back to the site Of course you would need to measure and reasonably reduce false positives. But in case you are serious about getting users to report them, an effective solution I've found with minimal friction is to fully use the mailto protocol scheme. Online shops can be static sites up to a scale, by adding product IDs and quantities to the mailto body, and having the customer order via e-mail. > The only way this could work Depending on your target audience, a CAPTCHA might not be possible.

dimmke 3y ago
>an effective solution I've found with minimal friction is to fully use the mailto protocol scheme. This is another assumption that I am not so sure is valid anymore: that there are hordes of bots out there scraping every email they can find. My personal website has had a raw mailto "Contact" button for several years now. Earlier this year I changed that email to an address I only use for the website (it's an alias) just as a way of tracking what comes through, and I have not received a single spam email to that address. Maybe I am tempting fate by putting that out there, and some asshole is going to try to ruin it for me. But it's my experience. I'm more likely to get an email from a recruiter who has used a tool to scrape my email off of Github (though I've made that significantly harder plus nobody wants to hire programmers anymore the ultimate spam control!) than an email from them having clicked through to my website and using the Contact button. I've gotten several real people sending me legitimate emails through it though. Sometimes they read something I post here, or they find a post from Google. Or it's someone I haven't talked to in a long time and they don't have a current email for me but they are able to reach me via my website. Here's some cold emails I've been sent over the past 1-2 years: https://i.imgur.com/rMfOqb2.png https://i.imgur.com/rMfOqb2.png My website isn't big, but it is fully indexed by Google and other search engines and has backlinks. If the internet was really this dark forest where there are masses of bots out there ingesting every email they can find, surely I'd have gotten something by now. I don't research this stuff, I can only share my anecdotal experiences. But it makes you wonder, right?

dimmke 3y ago

>an effective solution I've found with minimal friction is to fully use the mailto protocol scheme. This is another assumption that I am not so sure is valid anymore: that there are hordes of bots out there scraping every email they can find. My personal website has had a raw mailto "Contact" button for several years now. Earlier this year I changed that email to an address I only use for the website (it's an alias) just as a way of tracking what comes through, and I have not received a single spam email to that address. Maybe I am tempting fate by putting that out there, and some asshole is going to try to ruin it for me. But it's my experience. I'm more likely to get an email from a recruiter who has used a tool to scrape my email off of Github (though I've made that significantly harder plus nobody wants to hire programmers anymore the ultimate spam control!) than an email from them having clicked through to my website and using the Contact button. I've gotten several real people sending me legitimate emails through it though. Sometimes they read something I post here, or they find a post from Google. Or it's someone I haven't talked to in a long time and they don't have a current email for me but they are able to reach me via my website. Here's some cold emails I've been sent over the past 1-2 years: https://i.imgur.com/rMfOqb2.png https://i.imgur.com/rMfOqb2.png My website isn't big, but it is fully indexed by Google and other search engines and has backlinks. If the internet was really this dark forest where there are masses of bots out there ingesting every email they can find, surely I'd have gotten something by now. I don't research this stuff, I can only share my anecdotal experiences. But it makes you wonder, right?