My Instagram accounts got suspended for no reason whatsoever and I realised how centralised Instagram has become as 90% of my contacts were on there. I wish my website was the central place where people could reach out to me. Anybody has suggestions for making a contact form where people could reach me? I have a public email address for this purpose, but fear that just having the email out there will attract spam
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You could have additional characters in the E-Mail address that people would have to remove in order to use it (ex. ab3 cd @gh 3i j. com and then inform readers to remove all "3's" in order to use). That should stop most bots. [NOTE: I had to add spaces to the fake E-Mail address so that it wouldn't become 'real' but that's also another tactic that you could use to thwart bots]
you could have like [at] to replace the "@" symbol
if you worry about spam - just make a burner email. in most email clients you can block spamers if necessary anyway
This -is- the burner email, I'm just paranoid lol
you can also save your email address as an image and embed it on the site. or you can store the address in Base64 and then use the atob() javascript function to decode it when you press a button. i personally use the method @arandomsite mentioned where you substitute symbols for their phonetic forms. most mainstream email providers (e.g. proton, posteo, etc.) will also let you set up email aliases
i've used proton and posteo and their spam filters seem to be very good. i don't think i ever got even a single spam email while using them. frankly as long as you use email aliases you're pretty much spam-free forever imo
Yeah I just put my email in an image on my site. I got no idea how to do a contact form. I'm sorry about the Insta suspension though that really sucks
upping spider here: use an alias, if it becomes spammy you can just disable it