Joohansson/nanolinks

Form to submit a new link

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Contacting via reddit is a bit cumbersome for many, and it would be easier if there was a small form available to submit a new link. Example of a request form:

  • Category
  • Display Name
  • Description
  • Reason to add
  • Contact

The idea is good and I want to do this as well. Currently, there is a huge limitation because the site is hosted via github pages which means you can't run php code and save to a database or use an email composer. The form could be made in JS but how to get that data pushed to admin? Maybe there is a way I'm not aware of.

The only workaround I can come up with right now would be to host the form on another web server and a link to it from the main site. Would that be ok? It would be more sensitive to downtime and not as easy to transfer in case nanolinks was abandoned.

Edit: Last response here sounds promising though, I will invetigate:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24348223/send-email-from-static-page-hosted-on-github-pages

Submission form done. I ended up using https://usebasin.com.