Now quite CW but technical rant...
I want to create a newsletter for my new project. Doing your own email is hard. I've done it for >20 years. I know how hard it is. I'd rather let someone else do it.
There are companies that offer low volume newsletter (mail + campaign management tools, etc.) for very little money. They also help with the email spam issues. Signed up.
The signup form and confirmation page, etc. are all customizable and easy to make look really nice.
BUT...
They also offer a form you can stick on your website to let people sign up, which is what I want, while I'm working out technical details.
Here's the rub... That form is an iframe that uses some javascript and it has a bunch of trackers in it.
I really don't want those trackers. I don't want to track people. I just want a signup form.
Which means I either just accept this tracker crap and force users to use it, or spend a month just to make a form that won't work as well or look as good :(
I'm technical. I *could* spend the next month and a bunch of time/money to make this whole website and signup form and email server and all this. It would be a ton of work, but I'm capable of it.
But for a non-technical person, this would be extremely daunting. It might take them months, even years, just to do something like sign people up for a newsletter.
It would be so hard to convince someone that this is the right thing to do.
Heck, even I'm not sure what to do here. :(
@tetrislife
Can't you use a mailing list? Or forum with email notification? See lists.fsci.in or codema.in as for forms kobotoolbox.org or cryptpad.fr can create sign up forms. You will have to do extra work of exporting and importing data.
@emacsen