A one-click link to your latest issue
We've published a new blog post: > The Modern theme's subscribe page now links straight to your most recent issue. Read it here!
Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
We've published a new blog post: > You either loved it, or were using it wrong. Read it here!
Public postmortem: manually adding subscribers failed
We've published a new blog post: > Our public postmortem for the incident on June 14th–15th, 2026. Read it here!
Public postmortem: app downtime
We've published a new blog post: > Our public postmortem for the incident on June 11th. Read it here!
A two-column archive index for the Modern theme
We've published a new blog post: > Lay your Modern archive out as a grid instead of a single tall column. Read it here!
Public postmortem: Broken images
We've published a new blog post: > Our public postmortem for the incident on June 10th, 2026. Read it here!
Updates from May
Automations: even nicer now! We rebuilt Buttondown's automation tool this month to make it easier and faster. There’s a lot of new (and nice) stuff, but the...
Being weirder than AI is practicable and valuable
We've published a new blog post: > 'Everything I know about the internet in 2026 I learned from barefoot Martians and their handmade guitars.' Read it here!
New API changes for Buttondown
Stricter validation on automations, survey responses, and notes We've tightened input validation on a few write endpoints. Requests that send unexpected...
Annihilating both time and space: What the telegraph gave email
We've published a new blog post: > The future was telegraphed. Read it here!
Surveys in transactional emails
We've published a new blog post: > Surveys now render and record responses in your transactional emails, like your welcome email. Read it here!
Public postmortem: custom domain tracking links unavailable and delayed analytics
We've published a new blog post: > Our public postmortem for the incident on June 1st, 2026. Read it here!
Public postmortem: tracked links unavailable
We've published a new blog post: > Our public postmortem for the incident on May 8th, 2026. Read it here!
Notes on your team members
We've published a new blog post: > Leave private notes on the people you've invited to your newsletter. Read it here!
Compulsive curiosity, or, how I built an infinite idea machine
We've published a new blog post: > Most of it is taking notes in the shower and emailing strangers oddball questions, if I'm being honest. Read it here!
Gift details on the subscriber portal
We've published a new blog post: > Gifted subscribers can now see when their gift ends, who sent it, and the note that came with it. Read it here!
Portal link in the archive nav
We've published a new blog post: > Subscribers can now jump straight into the portal from any archive page. Read it here!
First, add no friction: How micropayments lost and subscriptions won
We've published a new blog post: > It's one article, Michael. What could it cost, 10¢? Read it here!
Filter subscribers and automations by source
We've published a new blog post: > Where a subscriber came from is now a first-class filter on audiences and automations. Read it here!
Automations, rebuilt
We've published a new blog post: > One-to-many actions, a dedicated settings page, richer analytics, and previews that let you see how an automation would...
