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Updates from September
October 4, 2024
Say hello to Buttondown’s newest employee! My wife and I welcomed our first child, Lucy, into the world last week. Here you can see her steepling her fingers...
Updates from August
September 3, 2024
Streamlining the publishing workflow For a while there, the New Email window was a tad cluttered. But no longer! We removed the Tags, Audience, and...
Updates from July
August 1, 2024
Let your subscribers find your best work Your Buttondown archives got a lot easier to navigate this month, with our new email archive search. Look ma, there...
Updates from June
July 3, 2024
Autonomy Tags let you segment your Buttondown lists. Subscriber self-tagging, which we added four months ago, lets folks sort themselves into the lists they...
Updates from May
June 4, 2024
New docs If you haven’t noticed by now, I beg you to take a look at our new docs! You can read more about our journey to building them here, but the TL;DR:...
Updates from March
April 3, 2024
Newer, nicer settings pages It’s boring to talk about changes to settings pages, I know — they’re sort of the unfinished basement of any application, useful...
How often should you send your newsletter?
March 19, 2024
If you're spinning up a newsletter and have chosen a topic you're passionate about, it's time to decide the second most important thing — how often you're...
Updates from February
March 12, 2024
Analytics It is a new calendar year, which means it is time to rewrite the analytics engine and experience to make it better for you. Huzzah! The weekly...
🤓 What Andy Dehnart's learned from writing on the web for two decades
February 28, 2024
Andy Dehnart's a writer and TV critic who lives in Florida with his husband and their tuxedo cat. He publishes reality blurred, where he's offered his...
🤓 Cassidy Williams uses Buttondown to reach 10K developers
February 28, 2024
Cassidy Williams is a software engineer and developer advocate by profession who loves teaching people coding skills (and making them laugh with dumb jokes)!...
📊 Learn more about your subscribers with surveys!
February 20, 2024
It’s probably useful to know a bit more about your subscribers: you can collect feedback about content they’re interested in, drive engagement, obtain...
Updates from January
February 6, 2024
Are you excited to talk about newsletters? I sure am. New archives We've launched the new archives! You can take a look at how they look here, and if you...
Updates from November
December 5, 2023
Hello, everyone! December is always a bit of a slow march in software-land; annual plans are being set, vacations are being had. With that in mind, my focus...
Updates from October
November 6, 2023
Hello! I hope your October was lovely; I was fortunate enough to spend two weeks traveling in Paris and Tuscany for my honeymoon, and despite all of that I...
Buttondown updates from June
July 5, 2023
Hello hello! I hope you had a lovely June. (To my American readers: a belated happy Fourth of July; to my non-American readers, I hope you enjoyed an...
Buttondown updates from May
June 6, 2023
Hello hello! I hope you had a lovely May. I'm writing this email by the James River, where the light breeze and the early afternoon sun could not make for...
Buttondown updates from April
May 5, 2023
Hello hello! I hope you had a lovely April. What's new No big headline features this month, as I spend most of my time building out automations. (Interested...
Buttondown updates from March
April 4, 2023
Hello hello! I hope your March went well, and your Q2 (if you subscribe to such corporate notions) is off to a lovely start. What's new The headline feature:...
Buttondown updates from February
March 7, 2023
February 2023 updates What’s new Buttondown’s two big new features in February: You can now send surveys to your subscribers to learn more about what their...
Buttondown Updates: January 2022
January 31, 2023
(You’re receiving this email because you signed up for Buttondown, a tool for growing and sending newsletters. No longer interested? Click here to...
Buttondown Updates (September 2020)
September 3, 2020
(Hello! It’s been around eight months since I’ve sent out a monthly newsletter. If you’re not interested in Buttondown any more, no worries — click here to...
Confirmation reminders, annual subscriptions, and dark mode support
November 8, 2019
👋 Hi! Remember me? I’m Justin, the guy who writes about Buttondown. September was a lovely month in Buttondown-land. I bounced around on a handful of...
August Updates
August 4, 2019
Howdy! I hope you’re doing well. After a reticent start to the season, Seattle’s summer is truly underway — I am in the process of moving into my very own...
July Updates
July 2, 2019
Howdy! After a month off (from writing a monthly update, that is, not running Buttondown 😉) I have a couple quick updates I’d love to share with you....
May Updates
May 6, 2019
Welcome to May! I wrote this from two places: the lounge of Seattle’s Sorrento Hotel, counting down the minutes until Silent Reading Party (a truly...
April Updates
April 8, 2019
Howdy, friends! I’m writing this belated update having just arrived back in Seattle from a week of leisure and wine in Paris. Apologies for the sluggishness...
March Updates from Buttondown
March 4, 2019
Hi, friends! This was a great month in Buttondownsville (Buttondownia?). I was able to take care of a huge number of paper-cut issues and build out some...
February Updates from Buttondown
February 5, 2019
Welcome to February, y'all! Seattle saw its first snow of 2019 last night, which is always an event worth celebrating. I'm writing this from a friend's couch...
(Belated) May Updates!
June 16, 2018
Howdy! Sorry this is getting out so late — June has been a fun and lovely month, and sometimes I forget to send things. Here's what's new this month! (Er,...
April Updates
May 7, 2018
Howdy! April had a lot of stuff — 184 commits, to be exact! — and a lot of that was laying groundwork and paying off technical debt, as well as some general...
March Updates
April 4, 2018
Hey there! March has had a bunch of stuff arrive in the ol' Buttondown codebase, mostly on the smaller side of things. Here's the quick laundry list: Sort...
January Updates
February 3, 2018
Howdy and Happy New Year! We had a quiet but productive start to 2018; I'm pumped to share what we've been up to. Link analytics You can now gain insight...
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