Granular visibility settings for your archives

You can now determine, one-by-one, which emails show up in your public, subscriber-only, and paid-only archives. Or hide an email entirely! This update applies to both pre-flight settings and emails you’ve already sent.

Per-email visibility depends entirely on your current settings and can be configured within your Design Settings page.

Message us if you have any questions. We love to help with migrations and (human-necessitated) support-related questions! Especially regarding our new and improved archives visibility settings.

Buttondown on Bluesky looks better than ever

Thanks to the work of the wonderful folks over at standard.site, posting a link to your newsletter’s archives on Bluesky generates a more detailed and nicer looking card than before. Followers will see your newsletter’s name, your Buttondown avatar, a description, and a View publication button formatted in your publication’s accent color.

You’ll have to enable this setting from your Integrations page to make sure that all your newsletter-to-Bluesky posts, manual and automated, use the updated cards. It only works on future posts (anything shared before the update won’t use the new cards) to public archives. Check out the announcement for all the details.

From the blog

July was, unintentionally, one of our busiest months for publishing longer-form behind-the-scenes articles. Nick wrote a superb explainer about the data we used to streamline our pricing page and put out another awesome technical walkthrough, this time about turning our OpenAPI schema into a bug finder.

Then, because we are fortunate enough to have sizable cohorts of both developer and non-English senders, Justin pulled back the curtains on two in-house builds. First, a free, and ad-free dig alternative that spits out a list of fingerprinted services based on the public records. Then, a rundown on Buttondown’s in-house localization solution handled via Vue and Django.

All of that to say nothing of our usual, platform-agnostic blog articles, which continued unabated with an explanation for why you can’t put SVG images in an email, alongside a look at some of the weird and wonderful ads for email in the 80s. July 1 was the anniversary of the shuttering of Google Reader and its complicated legacy, which we felt compelled to eulogize with a decade and a half of hindsight. And, to wrap things up, we published an op-ed-style piece about [how to keep tabs on newsletter performance, with tracking disabled.

Other stuff

• Buttondown now supports Italiano!

• You (and your subscribers) can now respond to comments by replying to the notification email, clickthrough be damned!

• We recently added the ability to draft flowcharts in markdown and have them rendered automatically before sending.

• The last update of the month, filtered blocks, lets you make paragraphs or sections in the middle of your emails invisible based on subscriber type or location.

• Updates to the email analytics UX means everything is faster and simpler, find out why in the changelog update.