amandafrench
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3 months ago Worth noting, too, that because all the fields on the subscription form are now required, users are taken to the full form anyway when they enter their email in the embedded form on the search app and hit Subscribe, so it's not urgent to remove it from v1
Describe the problem you would like to solve For the past couple of years, we've been getting lots of bad signups to the ROR newsletter from the embedded subscription form in the footer, which only asked for an email address and no other information. Many subscribers were spam, many were referred by webometrics and are interested in university admissions, and many think we are Ruby on Rails. We don't want to spend money to send these people the ROR newsletter.
I therefore made more fields required on the Mailchimp subscription signup form than just email address and removed the embedded form from the website footer. The ROR website footer now has a button that leads to http://eepurl.com/gjkT9H, where all fields are required.
Describe the solution you'd like I'd like the footer of the ROR search app to be a duplicate of the ROR website footer. V2 for sure, and if you can get to it sooner, maybe also the live v1 version.
Who would benefit from this feature? ROR staff
Additional information Screenshot of current footer on https://ror.org