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Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫

I don’t like email, so I’m currently designing an RSS-based contact form for my website.

This could be awesome or it could be stupid; I’ll have to try and see.

@benjaminhollon How would that work? Would the content someone writes in a form on the website get added to an rss feed you are subscribed to?

@AdamOnLinux
Yep! And I could use basic auth or the like to authenticate my access to the feed; some readers (like newsboat, which I use) support that.

Then I'd have them leave a way they'd like me to get back to them. Preferably not email.

@benjaminhollon why do you not like email, it's great D:

@Wyndix
A multitude of reasons including: cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self

Another reason being I always find it very difficult to get working solutions for email in my code for extended periods of time.

cfenollosa.comCarlos Fenollosa - Blog

@benjaminhollon not really the fault of SMTP but fair point

@Wyndix
No, not its fault at all, just an unfortunate fact of how it's turned out.