From 0befbd5592c8f80c9ce11c540e15382b07a2d914 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyler Hallada <tyler@hallada.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:20:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove mailing list subscription form

PHP is dead to me
---
 _includes/mail-form.html                      | 42 -------------------
 _includes/subscribe.html                      |  6 +++
 _layouts/post.html                            |  2 +-
 ...ng-mailing-list-jekyll-blog-using-sendy.md | 11 ++++-
 blog/index.html                               |  2 +-
 css/main.css                                  | 19 ++-------
 css/main_dark.css                             |  6 ---
 7 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 _includes/mail-form.html
 create mode 100644 _includes/subscribe.html

diff --git a/_includes/mail-form.html b/_includes/mail-form.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e45501..0000000
--- a/_includes/mail-form.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-<div class="card">
-  <div class="subscribe-form">
-    <div class="row clearfix">
-      <div class="column full">
-        <h3>Subscribe to my future posts</h3>
-      </div>
-    </div>
-    <form
-      action="https://list.hallada.net/subscribe"
-      method="POST"
-      accept-charset="utf-8"
-    >
-      <div class="row clearfix">
-        <div class="column half">
-          <label for="name">Name (optional)</label><br />
-          <input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
-        </div>
-        <div class="column half">
-          <label for="email">Email</label><br />
-          <input type="email" name="email" id="email" />
-        </div>
-      </div>
-      <div class="row clearfix">
-        <div style="display: none">
-          <label for="hp">HP</label><br />
-          <input type="text" name="hp" id="hp" />
-        </div>
-        <input type="hidden" name="list" value="aJAuaNkgCYdnWrea0qtjHA" />
-        <input type="hidden" name="subform" value="yes" />
-        <div class="column half">
-          <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
-        </div>
-        <div class="column half">
-          <span class="form-rss"
-            >Or subscribe to my <a href="/feed.xml">RSS feed</a></span
-          >
-        </div>
-      </div>
-    </form>
-    <div class="row clearfix"></div>
-  </div>
-</div>
diff --git a/_includes/subscribe.html b/_includes/subscribe.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5268741
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_includes/subscribe.html
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<div class="card">
+  <div class="subscribe">
+    <h3>Subscribe to my future posts</h3>
+    <p>Follow along with my <a href="/feed.xml">RSS feed</a>.</p>
+  </div>
+</div>
diff --git a/_layouts/post.html b/_layouts/post.html
index 0b00f54..4371a3f 100644
--- a/_layouts/post.html
+++ b/_layouts/post.html
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ layout: default
   </div>
 </div>
 
-{% include comments.html %} {% include mail-form.html %}
+{% include comments.html %} {% include subscribe.html %}
diff --git a/_posts/2017-08-30-making-mailing-list-jekyll-blog-using-sendy.md b/_posts/2017-08-30-making-mailing-list-jekyll-blog-using-sendy.md
index 637f3b6..9d6813c 100644
--- a/_posts/2017-08-30-making-mailing-list-jekyll-blog-using-sendy.md
+++ b/_posts/2017-08-30-making-mailing-list-jekyll-blog-using-sendy.md
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ as of this post.
 Lastly, I needed to create a form on my website for readers to sign up for the
 mailing list. Sendy provides the HTML in the UI to create the form, which I
 [tweaked a
-little](https://github.com/thallada/thallada.github.io/blob/master/_includes/mail-form.html)
+little](https://github.com/thallada/thallada.github.io/blob/ddf687d/_includes/mail-form.html)
 and placed in a [Jekyll includes template
 partial](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/includes/) that I could include on both the
 post layout and the blog index template. I refuse to pollute the internet with
@@ -148,6 +148,15 @@ new post yet. So, I think for now I will just manually create a new email
 campaign in Sendy (from an email template) that will have a link to the new
 post, and send that.
 
+## Addendum 10/21/2026:
+
+I have shut down the mailing list and the Sendy server at list.hallada.net, so
+the subscribe form mentioned above is no longer at the bottom of this article.
+I have done this because I no longer trust PHP and I don't want to risk hosting
+a gaping security hole just for a mailing list subscription that hardly no one
+ever subscribed to anyways. If you would like to follow my future posts, please
+subscribe to my [RSS feed](/feed.xml) instead.
+
 ---
 
 [^1]:
diff --git a/blog/index.html b/blog/index.html
index e0fe2cf..a6604b1 100644
--- a/blog/index.html
+++ b/blog/index.html
@@ -42,4 +42,4 @@ title: Tyler Hallada - Blog
   </div>
 </div>
 
-{% include mail-form.html %}
+{% include subscribe.html %}
diff --git a/css/main.css b/css/main.css
index b3c14ca..62e2c52 100755
--- a/css/main.css
+++ b/css/main.css
@@ -419,27 +419,16 @@ a.rss img {
 
 /*****************************************************************************/
 /*
-/* Subscribe form
+/* Subscribe
 /*
 /*****************************************************************************/
 
-.subscribe-form h3 {
-  margin-top: 10px;
-  margin-left: 10px;
-}
-
-.subscribe-form input {
+.subscribe {
   margin: 10px;
 }
 
-.subscribe-form label {
-  margin-left: 10px;
-}
-
-.subscribe-form span.form-rss {
-  display: block;
-  margin-top: 20px;
-  margin-left: 10px;
+.subscribe h3 {
+  margin-top: 0;
 }
 
 /*****************************************************************************/
diff --git a/css/main_dark.css b/css/main_dark.css
index f3283b0..458852c 100644
--- a/css/main_dark.css
+++ b/css/main_dark.css
@@ -64,14 +64,8 @@ a.no-decoration:hover {
   text-decoration: none;
 }
 
-.subscribe-form input[type="submit"],
 .isso-postbox input[type="button"],
 .isso-postbox input[type="submit"] {
   color: black;
   filter: invert(90%);
 }
-
-.subscribe-form input[type="text"],
-.subscribe-form input[type="email"] {
-  background-color: #222 !important;
-}