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Newsletter software for people like you.
https://buttondown.com
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Hey everyone, the Buttondown team is mostly offline for the winter holidays so that we can celebrate with our families. We'll be away Dec. 24th-Jan. 5th. Have a wonderful holiday week, and see you in the new year!💙
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Happy New Year from the Buttondown team🥂 💌 💙 We're excited to keep improving the platform, making it as easy as possible for you to create and scale your newsletter. What features would you like to see from us this year?
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Happy New Year from the Buttondown team🥂 💌 💙 We're excited to keep improving the platform, making it as easy as possible for you to create and scale your newsletter. What features would you like to see from us this year?
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We've shipped a lot of cool features in December!🎄 ❄️ - Scroll sync editor - Placeholder text warning alert - Bluesky follower count tracking - Directly reply to subscriber conversations -
Disposables.app
+ more! Which is your favorite(s)?
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Buttondown Blog
Buttondown's engineers, writers, and biggest fans write about the whole thing: engineering challenges, useful tips and tricks, new features, and more.
https://buttondown.com/blog?category=changelog
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Looking back on 2025, and looking forward to 2026.
buttondown.com/blog/2025
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2025
Looking back on 2025, and looking forward to 2026
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025
5 days ago
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Hey everyone, the Buttondown team is mostly offline for the winter holidays so that we can celebrate with our families. We'll be away Dec. 24th-Jan. 5th. Have a wonderful holiday week, and see you in the new year!💙
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The surprise is that we don't!
add a skeleton here at some point
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The surprise is that we don't!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Learn how we utilize Gen AI at Buttondown–it may surprise you.
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How Buttondown uses your content to power generative AI
Nope nope nope.
https://buttondown.com/blog/generative-ai
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@heykellyjensen.bsky.social
uses her newsletter as a space to discuss important national and local library issues, book censorship, mental health, and writing.
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How Kelly Jensen uses Buttondown
Kelly uses her newsletter as a space to discuss important national and local library issues, book censorship, mental health, and writing.
https://buttondown.com/blog/kelly-jensen
22 days ago
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Jeffery uses his newsletter to share tips, tricks, and explore areas within PowerShell that are often overlooked, yet super useful to consider.
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Jeffery Hicks goes behind-the-scenes in his newsletter
Jeffery uses his newsletter to share tips, tricks, and explore areas within PowerShell that are often overlooked, yet super useful to consider.
https://buttondown.com/blog/jeffery-hicks
14 days ago
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Looking back on 2025, and looking forward to 2026.
buttondown.com/blog/2025
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2025
Looking back on 2025, and looking forward to 2026
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025
5 days ago
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Merry Christmas! 🎅 🎄 🎁
8 days ago
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Our Nerd answers the question: Can you improve email deliverability with a personal domain? 🤔
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Ask a Nerd: Can you improve email deliverability with a personal domain?
Learn why it’s often better to route your newsletter through your domain, how to set that up, and methods for monitoring a domain’s deliverability.
https://buttondown.com/blog/deliverability-personal-domain
13 days ago
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Hey everyone, the Buttondown team is mostly offline for the winter holidays so that we can celebrate with our families. We'll be away Dec. 24th-Jan. 5th. Have a wonderful holiday week, and see you in the new year!💙
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We built and released a tiny little project:
disposables.app
, a free tool for easily checking whether or not an email address domain is disposable or otherwise problematic.
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Disposables.app
An open-source database of disposable email domains
https://disposables.app
11 days ago
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We built and released a tiny little project:
disposables.app
, a free tool for easily checking whether or not an email address domain is disposable or otherwise problematic.
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
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Disposables.app
An open-source database of disposable email domains
https://disposables.app
11 days ago
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You didn't ask for it, but we hope you like it–we've added a Bluesky follower count tracking option to your analytics. Let us know what you think (and, yes, other social networks to come)! 💙
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Bluesky analytics
Track your Bluesky follower count over time
https://buttondown.com/blog/bluesky-analytics
16 days ago
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Our Nerd answers the question: Can you improve email deliverability with a personal domain? 🤔
buttondown.com/blog/deliver...
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Ask a Nerd: Can you improve email deliverability with a personal domain?
Learn why it’s often better to route your newsletter through your domain, how to set that up, and methods for monitoring a domain’s deliverability.
https://buttondown.com/blog/deliverability-personal-domain
13 days ago
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Jeffery uses his newsletter to share tips, tricks, and explore areas within PowerShell that are often overlooked, yet super useful to consider.
buttondown.com/blog/jeffery...
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Jeffery Hicks goes behind-the-scenes in his newsletter
Jeffery uses his newsletter to share tips, tricks, and explore areas within PowerShell that are often overlooked, yet super useful to consider.
https://buttondown.com/blog/jeffery-hicks
14 days ago
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We want to know your perspective so that we can build the best Buttondown for everyone.
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How we interview customers at Buttondown
In which we provide space for you to ramble at us
https://buttondown.com/blog/interviewing
15 days ago
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You didn't ask for it, but we hope you like it–we've added a Bluesky follower count tracking option to your analytics. Let us know what you think (and, yes, other social networks to come)! 💙
buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...
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Bluesky analytics
Track your Bluesky follower count over time
https://buttondown.com/blog/bluesky-analytics
16 days ago
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We've made it easier for you to have actual conversations with your subscribers. Now, you can reply directly to subscribers from your inbox!
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
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Reply to conversations
You can now reply directly to subscriber conversations from your inbox.
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025-12-12
17 days ago
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Writers, journalists, and event organizers, we've added an extra layer of precaution for you–placeholder text reminder warnings. No more accidentally sending "The event starts at TK" to your subscribers!
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TK reminders in the editor
Never accidentally send an email with placeholder text again.
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025-12-05-tk-reminders
25 days ago
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Why did we decide to insource analytics? Three reasons: privacy, performance, and price.
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Why we insourced analytics
Privacy, performance, and price. Pick three.
https://buttondown.com/blog/insourcing-analytics
28 days ago
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The art of adding complexity without making things complicated.
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Minimum viable complexity
The art of adding complexity without making things complicated
https://buttondown.com/blog/how-to-introduce-complexity
21 days ago
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@heykellyjensen.bsky.social
uses her newsletter as a space to discuss important national and local library issues, book censorship, mental health, and writing.
buttondown.com/blog/kelly-j...
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How Kelly Jensen uses Buttondown
Kelly uses her newsletter as a space to discuss important national and local library issues, book censorship, mental health, and writing.
https://buttondown.com/blog/kelly-jensen
22 days ago
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We've made a bunch of changes to our stack this year–here's a round-up!
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Changes to our stack in 2025
A year-end roundup of all the tools we added, removed, and swapped in 2025
https://buttondown.com/blog/stack-updates-2025
22 days ago
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Want to know a little secret? 👀
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2026: Emails
How we're evolving email delivery in 2026
https://buttondown.com/blog/emails-2026
23 days ago
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What even is a UTM?
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What the hell is a UTM?
Ultimate tracking machine. Unusually timely metrics. Uniquely telling moments. UTM is all and none of those things.
https://buttondown.com/blog/what-is-a-utm
25 days ago
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Writers, journalists, and event organizers, we've added an extra layer of precaution for you–placeholder text reminder warnings. No more accidentally sending "The event starts at TK" to your subscribers!
buttondown.com/blog/2025-12...
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TK reminders in the editor
Never accidentally send an email with placeholder text again.
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025-12-05-tk-reminders
25 days ago
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You can now randomize the order of answers in your surveys!
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Randomize survey answer order
Randomize survey answer order
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025-12-06-randomize-survey-answers
27 days ago
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How do you keep feature creep at bay?
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Keeping feature creep at bay
A thousand no’s for every yes
https://buttondown.com/blog/avoiding-feature-creep
27 days ago
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Justin Duke
28 days ago
the industry is abound with "don't roll your own X" and analytics in particular is one of the things I like reaching to as a counterexample. finally wrote about it!
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Why did we decide to insource analytics? Three reasons: privacy, performance, and price.
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Why we insourced analytics
Privacy, performance, and price. Pick three.
https://buttondown.com/blog/insourcing-analytics
28 days ago
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Small update: we've added scroll sync in the editor and preview. Let us know what you think!
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Scroll sync in the editor
Scroll sync in the editor and preview
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025-12-01-scroll-sync
29 days ago
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How we're evolving the archives in 2026.
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2026: Archives
How we're evolving the archives in 2026
https://buttondown.com/blog/archives-2026
about 1 month ago
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Igor’s weekly newsletter informs Berlin’s expats of important tech business news, job opportunities, and professional resources in and around Berlin.
buttondown.com/blog/igor-ranc
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How Igor Ranc built Berlin's largest English-language tech newsletter
Igor’s weekly newsletter informs Berlin’s expats of important tech business news, job opportunities, and professional resources in and around Berlin.
https://buttondown.com/blog/igor-ranc
about 1 month ago
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Igor’s weekly newsletter informs Berlin’s expats of important tech business news, job opportunities, and professional resources in and around Berlin.
buttondown.com/blog/igor-ranc
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How Igor Ranc built Berlin's largest English-language tech newsletter
Igor’s weekly newsletter informs Berlin’s expats of important tech business news, job opportunities, and professional resources in and around Berlin.
https://buttondown.com/blog/igor-ranc
about 1 month ago
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See ya, November! 🦃 🍂 This month was filled with updates: - Custom icons - DNS management - Notification inbox - Preview emails as specific subscribers Template change history + more! Check out all the November product updates.
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Buttondown Blog
Buttondown's engineers, writers, and biggest fans write about the whole thing: engineering challenges, useful tips and tricks, new features, and more.
https://buttondown.com/blog?category=changelog
about 1 month ago
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Happy Small Business Saturday! Today, we're highlighting Buttondown authors. Check out their books on
@bookshop.org
or at your local bookstore to support small businesses.💙 📚
bookshop.org/wishlists/1d...
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Buttondown books
Bookshop.org Custom Wishlist
https://bookshop.org/wishlists/1db8bc6a1cdafa05020149fddc0ada8638ecf84a
about 1 month ago
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Making social networking more like email.
https://buttondown.com/blog/what-is-activitypub
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What the hell is ActivityPub?
Making social networking more like email.
https://buttondown.com/blog/what-is-activitypub
about 1 month ago
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We've enabled a strict Content Security Policy on all newsletter archives to improve the security posture for all users.
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Content Security Policy in archives
A stricter CSP to make your subscribers' experience safer.
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025-11-25-content-security-policy
about 1 month ago
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No more spending time creating fake test subscribers.
https://buttondown.com/blog/changelog-subscriber-preview
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Preview emails as specific subscribers
Preview emails as specific subscribers
https://buttondown.com/blog/changelog-subscriber-preview
about 1 month ago
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Hey gang, heads up that most of our team will be out of the office for the Thanksgiving holiday (11/27 & 11/28)! Forgive us if we're a bit slow with support requests–we'll get back to you first thing Monday morning.
about 1 month ago
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Justin Duke
about 1 month ago
one of my goals this year has been to open source more of buttondown's internal sawdust. a little bit under the wire, but this is the first of a few end-of-year goodies
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We're excited to announce that
Sniperl.ink
is now open source!
https://buttondown.com/blog/sniper-link-open-source
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Sniperl.ink is now open source
Sniperl.ink is now open source
https://buttondown.com/blog/sniper-link-open-source
about 1 month ago
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Fellow fans of RSS readers, this one is for you.
https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-11-22-auto-activating-rss-reader-subscriptions
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Auto-activating RSS reader subscriptions
Auto-activating RSS reader subscriptions
https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-11-22-auto-activating-rss-reader-subscriptions
about 1 month ago
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We've added a life-saving update–template change history! Now you can view every revision and when it happened with a single click. Try it out and let us know what you think!
https://buttondown.com/blog/template-history
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Template change history
Template change history
https://buttondown.com/blog/template-history
about 1 month ago
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Exciting for those of you offering paid subscriptions–your subscribers can now purchase gift subscriptions directly from your subscription page!🥳🎁
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025-11-19
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Gift subscriptions directly from your subscribe page
Gift subscriptions directly from your subscribe page
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025-11-19
about 1 month ago
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Making social networking more like email.
https://buttondown.com/blog/what-is-activitypub
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What the hell is ActivityPub?
Making social networking more like email.
https://buttondown.com/blog/what-is-activitypub
about 1 month ago
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