Export not just an email's aggregate numbers, but every individual event and timestamp behind them.

Email is the second-oldest software interface, after the Terminal.

Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.

Yes. But you really shouldn’t.

Convert the cruft of your creations into the content your biggest fans treasure most.

We consolidated two overlapping analytics pipelines into a single, well-documented events log.

You can ensure that your emails show up dark. You can’t completely control how.

Hide your email, hide your lists

Standalone pages dedicated to growing your newsletter.

The best parts of Django are the ones you stop noticing — a tour of the abstractions that have given Buttondown the most leverage over the years.

Build a set of filters once, name it, and reuse it as a one-click audience on every future email.

Build a set of filters once, name it, and reuse it as a one-click audience on every future email.

Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a given weekday.

Show a section of your email to just one type of audience (email, web, subscribers, or paid)

Our public postmortem for the incident on July 30st, 2026.

Why Buttondown spends so much time reading DNS records — and why we ended up building our own free dig tool to do it.

Our homegrown localization is one open-sourced JSON file, a template tag, and a wrapper component — nothing fancy, and kept honest by a bunch of weird tests.

Your newsletter's archive links can now share as rich, branded cards on Bluesky.

How Buttondown uses Schemathesis fuzz tests to turn its OpenAPI contract into a practical API robustness check.

Our public postmortem for the incident on July 24th, 2026.

Author flowcharts and diagrams in Mermaid, and Buttondown renders them in the archives and your emails.

Our public postmortem for the incident on July 23rd, 2026.

Few could define electronic mail, or how to set it up, but everyone agreed it was awesome.

Our public postmortem for the incident on July 17th, 2026.

Save them daily or quarterly. Just don’t let someone else control what happens to them.

It's a starting point with a few early guideposts.

Scalable Vector Graphics or Suspiciously Versatile Glyphs?

Email analytics drilldowns now nest right in the page — no more slow modals.

Answer a comment notification straight from your inbox, and it lands as a threaded comment.

Buttondown has plenty of analytics features. But you can grow your audience without them.