Updates from June
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 like. And this month, we’ve added subscriber autonomy, so they can untag or change their tags as needed.
Let your subscribers switch their email schedule, or get as many or as few of your emails as they want. It’s subscriber autonomy—and it’ll keep your audience happy and subscribed.
More open-source updates!
TL;DR: we built a Tiptap extension for Buttondown’s footnotes and open-sourced it so you can add it to your code.
Install it with pnpm i tiptap-footnotes (or npm, or yarn, if you fancy) and try it out. Add footnotes to your next Buttondown email, or try it out in the code sandbox in our announcement post.
Then, give Tiptap some love or mention them in your next newsletter. Even if you don’t have a reason to! They’re cool. And open-source. We like that. So much so that we have a page dedicated to Buttondown’s open source packages—and donate 10% of our profits to open source.
From the blog
It’s not just Gen Z that insists on cutting perfectly good words in half. People have been doing it since the days of slapdash, unedited, and endearing ‘Zines. And, it turns out, zines have more in common with email newsletters than just about any other form of publishing.
Want to know how to get your marketing emails into a developer’s inbox? Look elsewhere! We’re all about sales avoidance as praxis for DevRel teams.
Other stuff
Simple emails don’t have to be plain—especially now that we’ve added LaTeX support to Buttondown. That, and an emoji picker with Slack-style
:smile:codes and all the classic, non-AI emojis you want.Your Buttondown profile can now show up as verified on Mastodon and more, with new rel=’me’ support.
And, you can auto-share your newsletters to LinkedIn now (with Facebook and Twitter/X coming soon).