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Now I'm wondering what kind of features you end up adding to your website that need server-side code. Comment systems?

• andybak 2y ago
  How about a contact form?
  • echoangle 2y ago
    Here you go: <form action="mailto:someone@example.com" enctype="text/plain">
    • andybak 2y ago
      In an ideal world yes. But from past experience many users have the association for mailto links misconfigured. It's a terrible user experience.
      • echoangle 2y ago
        Yes, it depends on the target audience. For a personal website which the article was about, it would probably be fine for most hacker news users. If someone can’t manage to send me a mail, they probably wouldn’t see my website anyways. If you do your grandparents personal website, a proper form with a backend is better though.