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§ 01

What this form is good for

Corrections, mostly. This site is a growing pile of numbers, temperatures, and claims about wheat, and some of them will be wrong. If you spot one, tell me — I'd rather fix it than defend it.

Also good: a starter with a real history behind it, a gap in the Trouble Atlas, a flour that deserves an entry in the Compendium, or a question that sent you down a rabbit hole and never came back out.

If your loaf just went wrong, start with the Trouble Atlas — there's a decent chance the answer is already sitting there, and it'll be faster than waiting on me.

§ 02

The form

The Sourdough Database

Operated by: Kyle W.  ·  New York, NY  ·  sourdoughdatabase.com

§ 03

What happens to what you send

Submissions land in the Netlify dashboard and nowhere else. They aren't sold, shared, or added to a mailing list. The full details are in the privacy policy.

For privacy-specific requests — data access, deletion, or a newsletter unsubscribe — use the form at the bottom of the privacy policy instead. It routes to the same place but keeps those requests sorted.