Buttondown Down Again?

Thank you to everyone who replied to the note that accompanied my last newsletter — only visible if you received the issue via email — to let me know that you’d received it on Monday in your timezone. For those in the UK, I woke up to see that it had landed in inboxes a few minutes before midnight. 😪

This response in particular made me chuckle:

I’m glad my occasional woes with them are at least providing entertainment to some of you. 😆

It looks like this time one of Buttondown’s workers jammed up and I unfortunately once again got caught in the fray.

They’ve gifted me a month’s free credit but that doesn’t fully compensate for all of the frustration I’ve experienced at their hands. 😭

(I’m starting to look at beehiiv. 👀)

Community Roadmap Update

I’m three weeks into my current four-week focus on Community/Social features.

So, by now, I hoped to have at least:

• Finished off book and user review page filtering

• Added the ability to block users

• Added auto-saving to the drafting of reviews

• Added the ability to log books privately

• Started work on commenting on reviews…

But none of these have happened. 🥲

There are a range of reasons for my lack of progress. Some are related to my personal life — life admin, trips, social commitments, and helping friends — and others are work-related.

One of the work-related ones involves me getting stuck in a bug-fixing pit and slowly digging myself out.

As for the other reasons, I plan to elaborate in future issues.

What I Read in April

Can’t believe I gave out two five-star ratings! 😱

What Are The Top Three Fairytale Retellings?

Join my new book club and let’s find out together! 😁

What I’m Reading

I saw on Instagram that an old university friend had published a novel. I was craving something more lighthearted so I picked up Walk This Way straight away.

Have a great week,

Nadia