I deleted the contact form and put links instead
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I deleted the contact form and put links instead

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Today I did quite a lot on the portfolio site: light and dark mode, small cursor interactions, and finally deployment through Docker. But the most interesting decision was about something else — I deleted the contact form. The site had the usual form: name, email, message, a "Send" button. Writing that is half an hour of work. The problem is that for a form to actually work you need much more: a mail service to deliver the message, spam protection, confirmation that it was sent, and a guarantee that the message does not quietly vanish. All of that is doable. But a question came up: what do I get in return? The user receives the reply through Telegram or email anyway. So the form would only be an extra link in the chain — and every extra link is one more thing that can break. So I removed the form and put direct Telegram and email links in its place. One click and the conversation opens. Nothing gets lost, because nothing is being relayed. That same day I added two more pages: the full text of a blog post, and a detailed project page. They existed in the lists before, but clicking led nowhere. Fewer parts means fewer places to break.