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Newsletter QR code
Justin Duke
October 6, 2025
Your newsletter now has a QR code
UTM via forms
Justin Duke
September 27, 2025
Add UTM params to subscribers via form
Better API errors
Justin Duke
August 22, 2025
Better API debugging and clearer error messages
A new home screen
Justin Duke
August 20, 2025
Dashboard home screen showing todos, recommendations, and what needs attention.
Filter subscribers by domain
Justin Duke
July 4, 2025
Filter and manage subscribers based on their email domain.
CLI
Justin Duke
May 28, 2025
Command-line tool for bidirectional syncing of emails, automations, and images.
SimpleAnalytics integration
Justin Duke
May 23, 2025
Privacy-first analytics integration for tracking newsletter web traffic without cookies.
Cross-newsletter automations
Justin Duke
March 7, 2025
Create subscribers in other newsletters via automations
RSS metadata
Justin Duke
March 1, 2025
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
Zapier v2.0
Matias Artopoulos Kozak
February 19, 2025
New Zapier integration with easier login flow and new subscriber management actions.
Esoteric API features
Justin Duke
February 9, 2025
Two small, esoteric API features
Classic theme comments
Justin Duke
January 5, 2025
Comments in the classic theme
Webhooks for exports
Justin Duke
December 26, 2024
New webhook types notify you when exports are created, completed, or failed.
Discord webhook integration
Matias Artopoulos Kozak
November 21, 2024
Easily set up Discord webhooks to get notified about newsletter events in your server.
Filtered exports
Justin Duke
November 8, 2024
Export only filtered lists of subscribers or emails instead of everything at once.
API versioning
Justin Duke
July 31, 2024
API versioning has been introduced to handle breaking changes while keeping existing integrations safe.
Archive search
Justin Duke
July 1, 2024
Subscribers can now search your archives by subject, body, or email metadata.
Magic email images
Justin Duke
May 21, 2024
Our Magic Email Address now supports images
Rebuilt documentation site
Ben Borgers
May 6, 2024
The docs site has been rebuilt with cleaner guides, API recipes, and improved search.
Improved search
Justin Duke
April 17, 2024
Search just keeps getting more powerful
Transistor embeds
Justin Duke
April 12, 2024
Embed Transistor podcasts in your emails
Comments RSS feed
Justin Duke
March 18, 2024
An RSS feed just for comments
Bluesky and Mastodon sharing
Justin Duke
March 12, 2024
Sharing integrations with Bluesky and Mastodon
Tags now get auto-grouped
Justin Duke
February 5, 2024
Tags using key:value syntax are now automatically grouped in the UI for easier browsing.
Comments!
Justin Duke
January 29, 2024
Optional, opt-in commenting on newsletter archive pages with moderation and API access.
Better archives and landing pages
Justin Duke
January 19, 2024
Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages
Opt-in reply tracking
Justin Duke
October 30, 2023
Track email replies to enable automations, webhooks, and analytics around subscriber responses.
Programmatic webhooks
Justin Duke
August 21, 2023
You can now programmatically register webhooks with the API!
Discord webhook formatting
Justin Duke
July 20, 2023
Discord webhooks are auto-detected and transformed!
RSS subscriber count
Justin Duke
June 27, 2023
Learn how many folks subscribe to your newsletter via RSS!
Customizable list views
Justin Duke
June 15, 2023
Customize your subscriber and email list views!
Filter by date
Justin Duke
May 29, 2023
You can now filter your subscribers by date!
Survey-triggered automations
Justin Duke
May 24, 2023
Trigger automations based on survey responses!
Faster web archives
Justin Duke
April 25, 2023
Web archives are much faster
API requests page
Justin Duke
March 10, 2023
Debug API requests in the new dedicated requests page
In-email surveys
Justin Duke
February 28, 2023
Poll your subscribers with quick in-email surveys!
Faster emails page
Justin Duke
January 27, 2023
The emails page loads three times as fast!
Zapier error codes
Justin Duke
January 17, 2023
Buttondown's Zapier integration has better error codes now!
API bulk actions
Justin Duke
December 7, 2022
You can now execute bulk actions through the API!
Improved OpenAPI spec
Justin Duke
December 6, 2022
Buttondown's OpenAPI spec is much better. And on GitHub.
Filter emails by source
Justin Duke
October 19, 2022
Filter your emails by their source
Fancier exports
Justin Duke
August 15, 2022
Choose specific collections of data to export from Buttondown.
View webhook events
Justin Duke
July 14, 2022
A new dedicated view to see all webhook events associated with your newsletter.
MFA support
Justin Duke
July 6, 2022
Secure your account with MFA
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