Newsletter email is only validated server-side, after submit #11

🔎 Opened by loup from a user session recording.

The newsletter form only validates the email address after a server round-trip on submit. There is no inline or pre-submit validation to warn the user of an invalid address before they press Subscribe. Combined with the form becoming unrecoverable on a validation error, this makes the subscribe flow easy to get stuck in. Adding client-side inline validation would give users immediate feedback and prevent the unrecoverable error state.

Verified from the recording at 0:12: At 0:12, the error "Invalid email address." only appears after form submission with no prior inline feedback, and the form is left in an unrecoverable state with no input or button visible.

Where: appview/pages/templates/timeline/home.html:509

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