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The fuck off contact page

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unloader6118 ◴[] No.46190661[source]
The contact page on the left is something I absolutely hate. If the prefer method of contact is email, just give me an email. If they need to enter that into some ticketing system, give me access to the ticketing system. The page on right give me some ideas how they handle things internally.

The form on left is almost certainly a webform-to-email, this is ridiculous.

looking at font choice, how ironic they are complaining about UX

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1. alt227 ◴[] No.46191507[source]
I disagree.

If you put an email address on a contact page, all manner of sh*t is going to be thrown at you.

Automated marketing services, scammers, competitors, everyone and their dog are going to be filling up your customer service inbox and costing you time and money to manage it.

Put a contact form on your website and you can secure it with a capture, which is not bulltproof but it sure does filter out a lot of automated noise for you. Then you will find that people are generally a lot quicker to fire off an email than fill out a contact form. In my experience this generally puts one more 'thinking barrier' between you and the public, which again cuts down noise significantly.

Also, click the 'settings' button in the bottom right, and you will see they have given you a choice of fonts. Sometimes it pays to look a tiny bit further to see whether your issue has already been solved, before complaining about it.

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2. carlosjobim ◴[] No.46194608[source]
Protection against bots seeing the e-mail on your website has been around for at least a decade.

And if any of your customers or business partners know of the company e-mail, then you're already known to all spammers in the world, since their contact lists are getting hacked all the time.

Ie: If you're a business your e-mail adress is already out there, so give it also to those who need it the most, which are your customers.

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3. alt227 ◴[] No.46197011[source]
You obviously dont run an ecommerce website
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4. carlosjobim ◴[] No.46197105{3}[source]
Such a lame comment. Just an insult and nothing more. Haven't you anything else to say, better than hit-and-run insults?
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5. alt227 ◴[] No.46207487{4}[source]
Not hit and run. There are underlying assumptions which most intelligent people can infer. The intention was to say that all of your comments are a bit naive from an ecommerce site perspective. Having been through mutiple builds and launches of them, I can tell you categorically that your comments are uninformed and wrong. But rather than write all that and make you feel like I am intentionally insulting you, I just point out that you have made your lack of knowledge obvious.
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6. carlosjobim ◴[] No.46210242{5}[source]
I can kind of guess what attitude customers might be met with when trying to get help with an issue from any of the multiple builds and launches that you've been involved in.