Our public postmortem for the incident on July 30th, 2026. buttondown.com/blog/inciden...
Public postmortem: email sending & other tasks delayed
Our public postmortem for the incident on July 30st, 2026.
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Newsletter software for people like you. https://buttondown.com
Buttondown now has a built-in @standard.site integration that publishes records to your PDS alongside your newsletters.
Buttondown@buttondown.com · 4d agoWe've enhanced Bluesky link cards! Now when you share your newsletter's archive links on Bluesky they appear as rich, branded cards.💙 🦋 buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...
Long time @buttondown.com fan here, pretty damn thrilled they built a top-notch @standard.site integration right into the platform. (Heap your praise on, @mary.my.id)
AT Protocol Developers@atproto.com · 2d agoButtondown now has a built-in @standard.site integration that publishes records to your PDS alongside your newsletters.
Exciting new ship!🚀 Now you can send your RSS digest any day you'd like! Learn more about this feature: buttondown.com/blog/rss-arb...
Send your RSS digest on any day of the month
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a given weekday.
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We've enhanced Bluesky link cards! Now when you share your newsletter's archive links on Bluesky they appear as rich, branded cards.💙 🦋 buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...
Enhanced link cards on Bluesky
Your newsletter's archive links can now share as rich, branded cards on Bluesky.
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New ship—Filtered blocks!🚀 Now, you have the option to make sections of your email visible to specific audiences. Filtered blocks are available for 4 groups: email, web, subscribers, or paid. Learn more about this game changing feature: buttondown.com/blog/filtere...
Filtered blocks
Show a section of your email to just one type of audience (email, web, subscribers, or paid)
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Why Buttondown spends so much time reading DNS records — and why we ended up building our own free dig tool to do it. buttondown.com/blog/dig
We built our own dig
Why Buttondown spends so much time reading DNS records — and why we ended up building our own free dig tool to do it.
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Our homegrown localization is one open-sourced JSON file, a template tag, and a wrapper component — nothing fancy, and kept honest by a bunch of weird tests. buttondown.com/blog/how-we-...
How we localize Buttondown
Our homegrown localization is one open-sourced JSON file, a template tag, and a wrapper component — nothing fancy, and kept honest by a bunch of weird tests.
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How Buttondown uses Schemathesis fuzz tests to turn its OpenAPI contract into a practical API robustness check. buttondown.com/blog/turning...
Turning our OpenAPI schema into a bug finder
How Buttondown uses Schemathesis fuzz tests to turn its OpenAPI contract into a practical API robustness check.
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New ship! Introducing Mermaid charts🧜♀️ Now you can create flowcharts and diagrams in Mermaid, and Buttondown renders them in the archives and your emails. buttondown.com/blog/mermaid...
Mermaid diagram rendering
Author flowcharts and diagrams in Mermaid, and Buttondown renders them in the archives and your emails.
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Few could define electronic mail, or how to set it up, but everyone agreed it was awesome. buttondown.com/blog/email-8...
Email ads in the 80s were weird and wonderful lies
Few could define electronic mail, or how to set it up, but everyone agreed it was awesome.
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Open any app on your phone and count the buttons, features, and formatting it inherited from the OG communications app. buttondown.com/blog/email-e...
Email's fingerprints are everywhere you look
Open any app on your phone and count the buttons, features, and formatting it inherited from the OG communications app.
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Update: We've added a two-column archive index for the Modern theme! Now, you can lay your Modern archive out as a grid instead of a single tall column. buttondown.com/blog/2026-06...
A two-column archive index for the Modern theme
Lay your Modern archive out as a grid instead of a single tall column.
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Our public postmortem for the incident on July 17th, 2026. buttondown.com/blog/inciden...
Public postmortem: intermittent issues logging into the app
Our public postmortem for the incident on July 17th, 2026.
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You either loved it, or were using it wrong. buttondown.com/blog/lotus-n...
Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
You either loved it, or were using it wrong.
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New ship!🚀 We've changed how drilling down into opens and clicks works on an email's analytics page. Now, email analytics drilldowns now nest right in the page — no more slow modals. buttondown.com/blog/nested-...
Better drilldown into opens and clicks
Email analytics drilldowns now nest right in the page — no more slow modals.
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We've launched email replies to comments!🚀 Now you're able to answer a comment notification straight from your inbox, and it lands as a threaded comment. buttondown.com/blog/reply-t...
Reply to comments via email
Answer a comment notification straight from your inbox, and it lands as a threaded comment.
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Buttondown has plenty of analytics features. But you can grow your audience without them. buttondown.com/blog/growing...
How I send and grow my newsletter without open and click tracking
Buttondown has plenty of analytics features. But you can grow your audience without them.
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We've shipped an Archive improvement feature! Now, you have a clearer hierarchy for archive settings, per-email overrides, and content-level paywalls. buttondown.com/blog/archive...
An improved way to manage visibility of archived emails
A clearer hierarchy for archive settings, per-email overrides, and content-level paywalls.
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We've added a new feature to your inbox— attachments to replies! 📥️ Now you can send PDFs, images, and other files when you reply to a subscriber from your Inbox. Learn more about the feature: buttondown.com/blog/attachm...
Attach files to your Inbox replies
Send PDFs, images, and other files when you reply to a subscriber from your Inbox.
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The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators. buttondown.com/blog/google-...
Google Reader was building the wrong future
The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
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Email can learn a lot from the rise, fall, and quiet continuation of pneumatic tubes. buttondown.com/blog/pneumat...
The series of tubes filled with enormous amounts of mail, beneath our feet
Email can learn a lot from the rise, fall, and quiet continuation of pneumatic tubes.
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