[TrueGeek]

> What I am thinking to add on my personal website, though, is a "send a reply" box at the end

I just list my email address. FastMail's spam filters are good enough that I rarely get spam so it hasn't been a problem. Occasionally I'll get an email from a dev asking following up questions or if I can help them with their code. It's nice to know that it's not just my mom reading the site.

[jaw]

I do this too—every post has a footer telling people they can email me with feedback, along with a mailto link. I maybe see one piece of spam every few months because of it. And once in a while I get feedback that I really enjoy. As the top-level comment mentioned, there are advantages to 1-on-1 communication.

[victorstanciu]

> I just list my email address.

That's what I did too. I added a mailto: link to the Hugo post template that also prefills the subject line with the title of the post when you click on it. The interactions I've had with this method feel much more meaningful to me than the average comment thread, for all the reasons @sph already mentioned.

[reactordev]

Analytics could tell you that without exposing your email address to the world.

[TrueGeek]

But analytics wouldn't allow me to respond to the people asking for help.

The site has been up for over 20 years, I think I added the email address about 10 years ago. If it was a mistake and would result in massive amounts of spam surely I would have felt the effects by now.

[throwup238]

Did you obfuscate the email in any way or is it a mailto link?

[TrueGeek]

Nope, just a mailto:

https://truegeek.com/contact

[KomoD]

Cloudflare obfuscates it automatically, look at the raw HTML and you'll see that the mailto is replaced with a "/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" link, along with a email-decode.min.js script tag being added

See: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/scrape-shield/em...

[TrueGeek]

omg, all this time I've been giving FastMail the credit. What a nice little feature.