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Public postmortem: api.buttondown.email inaccessible
Our public postmortem for the incident on July 23rd, 2026.
Email ads in the 80s were weird and wonderful lies
Few could define electronic mail, or how to set it up, but everyone agreed it was awesome.
Public postmortem: intermittent issues logging into the app
Our public postmortem for the incident on July 17th, 2026.
How we increased conversion rate by 42% by making one small change to our pricing page
It's a starting point with a few early guideposts.
Ask a nerd: Can I use SVG images in emails?
Scalable Vector Graphics or Suspiciously Versatile Glyphs?
Better drilldown into opens and clicks
Email analytics drilldowns now nest right in the page — no more slow modals.
Reply to comments via email
Answer a comment notification straight from your inbox, and it lands as a threaded comment.
How I send and grow my newsletter without open and click tracking
Buttondown has plenty of analytics features. But you can grow your audience without them.
An improved way to manage visibility of archived emails
A clearer hierarchy for archive settings, per-email overrides, and content-level paywalls.
Google Reader was building the wrong future
The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
The series of tubes filled with enormous amounts of mail, beneath our feet
Email can learn a lot from the rise, fall, and quiet continuation of pneumatic tubes.
Attach files to your Inbox replies
Send PDFs, images, and other files when you reply to a subscriber from your Inbox.
Even more tweaks to inbound and replies
Three clear paths for custom sending domains, each with consistent, predictable reply behavior.
Public postmortem: manually adding subscribers failed
Our public postmortem for the incident on June 14th–15th, 2026.
Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
You either loved it, or were using it wrong.
A one-click link to your latest issue
The Modern theme's subscribe page now links straight to your most recent issue.
Public postmortem: app downtime
Our public postmortem for the incident on June 11th.
A two-column archive index for the Modern theme
Lay your Modern archive out as a grid instead of a single tall column.
Public postmortem: Broken images
Our public postmortem for the incident on June 10th, 2026.
Being weirder than AI is practicable and valuable
'Everything I know about the internet in 2026 I learned from barefoot Martians and their handmade guitars.'
Annihilating both time and space: What the telegraph gave email
The future was telegraphed.
Surveys in transactional emails
Surveys now render and record responses in your transactional emails, like your welcome email.
Public postmortem: tracked links unavailable
Our public postmortem for the incident on May 8th, 2026.
Public postmortem: custom domain tracking links unavailable and delayed analytics
Our public postmortem for the incident on June 1st, 2026.
Notes on your team members
Leave private notes on the people you've invited to your newsletter.
Compulsive curiosity, or, how I built an infinite idea machine
Most of it is taking notes in the shower and emailing strangers oddball questions, if I'm being honest.
Gift details on the subscriber portal
Gifted subscribers can now see when their gift ends, who sent it, and the note that came with it.
Portal link in the archive nav
Subscribers can now jump straight into the portal from any archive page.
First, add no friction: How micropayments lost and subscriptions won
It's one article, Michael. What could it cost, 10¢?