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Ask a Nerd: Does attaching files to your newsletter hurt deliverability?
Email service providers hate them, they’re awkward on mobile, and download links are better in virtually every way.
Custom buttons now work in Markdown mode
A simpler format for custom buttons that works everywhere.
Seline and Tinylytics support
Two new privacy-friendly analytics integrations for your archives.
Localization
Buttondown supports multiple languages and regional date formats for subscriber-facing content.
Unban subscribers
You can now unban subscribers directly from the UI.
Announcement bars for your archives
Add a prominent message at the top of your archive pages.
Bang paths, source routing, and how email trips were planned
Turn by turn directions, for email
Public postmortem: archive downtime
Our public postmortem for Incident #0023.
2025
Looking back on 2025, and looking forward to 2026
disposables.app
A tiny tool for checking if an email domain is disposable.
Russian localization
Russian localization
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.
More locale options
New English locale variants for UK, Australia, and Canada.
How we interview customers at Buttondown
In which we provide space for you to ramble at us
Bluesky analytics
Track your Bluesky follower count over time
Reply to conversations
You can now reply directly to subscriber conversations from your inbox.
Minimum viable complexity
The art of adding complexity without making things complicated
How 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.
Changes to our stack in 2025
A year-end roundup of all the tools we added, removed, and swapped in 2025
2026: Emails
How we're evolving email delivery in 2026
Randomize survey answer order
Surveys can now randomize answer order to avoid position bias in responses.
TK reminders in the editor
Never accidentally send an email with placeholder text again.
What the hell is a UTM?
Ultimate tracking machine. Unusually timely metrics. Uniquely telling moments. UTM is all and none of those things.
Why we insourced analytics
Privacy, performance, and price. Pick three.
2026: Archives
How we're evolving the archives in 2026
How Jamie Thingelstad uses Buttondown to explore tech topics
Jamie uses his newsletter to explore various tech topics and share his continuous technology learning journey with readers.
How Kelly Jensen uses Buttondown to discuss key library issues
Kelly uses her newsletter as a space to discuss important national and local library issues, book censorship, mental health, and writing.
Scroll sync in the editor
Scroll sync in the editor and preview
Keeping feature creep at bay
A thousand no’s for every yes