No updates today - technical issues
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Hi everyone,
Sadly there will be no update today - I'm having some technical issues with Buttondown and Stripe.
The free emails work well, but the subscription renewals for paid emails stopped working entirely, and I need to either get this fixed or decide to move the paid subscriptions to a separate newsletter tier on Patreon. (Patreon does seem to work - I'm a bit behind on updates, but it functions and payments go through without issue for now.)
I've already talked to support, but it seems like the issue is on Stripe's end, so it might not be that easy to resolve.
I really like the email composing interface here on Buttondown, it works wonderfully for me and much better than the two alternate services I've tried. So I think the free emails will stay here. What might happen is that the paid emails will be sent out with Buttondown, but payments will be handled separately, and I'll just manually check each month who paid and adjust the list for the paid emails accordingly. I'm concerned that might be a bit too difficult to manage though.
My apologies!!! It might take a few days to get this sorted out. (I've read a bunch of cool things in the meanwhile that I'm eager to share...) Thank you for your patience!
Any of your comments, technical advice, etc. are most welcome. If you managed to get subscription renewals working on Buttondown, please please please let me know, but any other advice is welcome too. :)
Take care,
Bogi.