Short boughs, long vintage, and email
We've published a new blog post: > Newsletters will continue to outlive trendy upstarts in part because email has outlasted so many already. Read it here!
2025-01-05
Comments in the classic theme
New API changes for Buttondown
In what may be the most niche breaking change ever, we've changed the tag field in the metadata field of bulk actions to tag_id. Previously, when wanted to...
Updates from December
366 days is enough time to build quite a lot, especially when building with a team. That’s Buttondown’s 2024 story. What began as a small hobby project in a...
New API changes for Buttondown
We've added the upgrade_date field to the Subscriber model. This field is a date that indicates the date on which the subscriber upgraded to a paid...
New API changes for Buttondown
Breaking change: we've unshipped the is_comments_disabled field from emails, and replaced it with a more flexible commenting_mode field. The commenting_mode...
2024 (and what's next)
We've published a new blog post: > Lookin' backwards, lookin' forwards Read it here!
Portability is optionality
We've published a new blog post: > Don’t worry about which platforms to use as much as about how portable your data is. Read it here!
2024-12-26
Webhooks for exports
2024-12-17
Carve out free- and paid-only blocks in your emails
New API changes for Buttondown
In addition to deleting and creating images based on their id, you can now list all of your images by using the new /images endpoint. ). Read the whole thing...
New API changes for Buttondown
When creating a new subscriber, Buttondown will now reject the request if a subscriber with the same email address already exists, even if that subscriber...
2024-12-10
Embed Bluesky profiles in your Buttondown emails
One topic, for a limited time: The pop-up email newsletter
We've published a new blog post: > Limited edition emails are the best emails Read it here!
2024-12-05
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
Updates from November
Charge per email instead of per month Some platforms force you to offer fixed-schedule subscriptions to your fans. Not Buttondown (anymore!). Go to your Paid...
2024-11-26
Pausing your subscription
2024-11-21
Discord webhook integration
2024-11-18
Filtering subscribers by survey responses
2024-11-08
Filtered exports
2024-11-06
Umami integration
2024-11-04
Per-email paid subscriptions
Updates from October
Custom button text You can now write whatever you want inside the buttons in your newsletter. Invite subscribers to pre-order your book, sign up for your...
2024-10-29
Multiple event types for webhooks
2024-10-24
Idempotency keys in the API
2024-10-22
Internal links
2024-10-17
Custom buttons
2024-10-15
A brand new Framer component
Updates from September
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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)
(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
👋 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...