Mary improved the design of thumbnails when autoposting to Bluesky

Justin removed the ability to manually add subscribers who are suppressed by our ESPs

Mary fixed a bizarre issue dropping hyperlinks when Google Docs exported junk ../ segments ahead of the real URL

Tanvir tightened up the Snippets OpenAPI schema

Justin introduced logic to reject subscribers from permanently disabled newsletters who were disabled specifically to protect them from spam-bombing

Justin fixed a bug where the webhooks API was throwing a 500 on very long webhook URLs

Justin fixed a bug where you could change the billing of a premium email after it was sent (which would do nothing but was odd and confusing)

Tanvir documented rate limits, list pagination, email field formats, and outbound webhook payloads in the generated API spec

Tanvir improved the OpenAPI schema for images and list filters, with clearer validation errors when a filter field is wrong

Justin tightened some firewall heuristics, including more freemail domains for historically Gmail-only checks

Mary added a Transactional emails panel to survey analytics for newsletters who add surveys to their welcome emails

Justin guessied up the responses for failed API requests

Mary added a Web audience column to the emails list, showing who can read each post in your archive

Mary stopped the email link-checker from flagging valid links that differ only by a #fragment

Justin fixed the analytics and events APIs returning a 422 error on some valid requests

Mary added a Public archive shortcut to the sidebar and command palette, opening your reader-facing archive in a new tab

Justin added a goal-setting step during signup for creators and businesses — pick what you're building toward and optionally set a subscriber or revenue target

Justin fixed the webhooks API returning a 422 when you listed completed delivery attempts

Nick renamed the tag toggle to Subscribers can edit on the portal tag form (previously "Subscriber editable")

Justin fixed unsubscribe links that had stopped working for some subscribers

Justin counted automation sends toward a subscriber's delivered count, so their stats reflect every email they actually received

Justin returned a clear error instead of a 500 when an API request asked for page 0 or a negative page

Justin improved how Buttondown detects which app or integration created a subscriber, so more signups get an accurate source

Mary added the ability to leave private notes on your team members

Mary fixed a bug where subscriber-only emails could be read without logging in on public newsletters

Matias stopped archive links from being rewritten as tracking links when click tracking is turned off

Justin fixed a bug where saving an automation could fail because the form sent along extra fields

Justin fixed a bug where the reminder to confirm a subscription wasn't being sent on newsletters without the automations feature

Justin fixed a bug where saving paid subscriptions settings could fail with an error instead of a clear message when a Stripe price didn't match the product

Tanvir improved the OpenAPI schema for automations

Mary fixed a bug where the mobile editor toolbar floated mid-screen on short emails instead of staying pinned above the keyboard

Justin fixed a bug where a bulk action deleting subscribers or emails with an empty ids list would wipe the entire newsletter — empty or missing ids are now rejected with a clear 400

Justin fixed a bug where checkout for paid subscriptions could fail when a price was missing a tax behavior

Justin fixed a bug where sponsorship pages returned errors on a custom domain

Justin sped up rendering image-heavy emails by indexing hosted images and dropping an unneeded sort

Justin documented every bulk action API type — including subscriber metadata actions — and tightened validation so bad payloads now return a clear 400

Tanvir fixed a couple of survey bugs — filtering responses by their value and updating freeform answers now behave correctly

Steph added the Polish złoty as a supported currency for paid subscriptions

Mary moved team invites from a modal into a drawer

Mary added a nudge toward the social sign-in button for people who only have an SSO login but try to sign in with a password

Justin stopped the email typo-checker in the subscriber drawer from flagging valid domains like hey.com

Justin fixed a bug with the firewall incorrectly handling spammy IPs

Justin fixed the portal sign-in link on the page shown when a custom domain is disabled

Mary fixed a bug where logging in on archive pages could fail

Mary fixed a couple of narrow-width layout bugs on archive pages — pagination no longer gets clipped and a sliver of horizontal scroll is gone

Mary stopped showing the "premium" label on the Lovelace and Modern archive themes unless paid subscriptions are turned on

Mary dropped the "browse the full archives" link on the not-found page when the archive is disabled

Mary fixed a bug where small uploaded images were scaled up in the editor instead of rendering at their natural size

Mary made the per-email visibility labels match the wording used at the newsletter level

Justin fixed a bug where some author-facing notifications weren't being sent

Justin fixed a bug where the new 1MB attachment size limit was rejecting older attachments that were already larger than that

Justin documented how to import from a generic archive and sped up serializing those imported emails

Mary added a way to reach the portal from archive pages — signed-in subscribers see "Account", and everyone else sees "Log in"

Mary fixed a bug where logging out of the portal could leave you signed in on archive pages

Mary fixed layout issues on the subscriber portal where the manage-subscription column and inputs overflowed on mobile

Tanvir improved the OpenAPI schema for attachments

Mary fixed a bug where gifted subscribers were being cleared when paid subscriptions were turned off

Justin restored the "Re-evaluate filters" toggle on the automation settings page

Justin fixed a bug where survey answers containing / were being rejected

Mary fixed a bug where some timezones were showing publish dates that were off-by-one

Tanvir tightened validation on survey response schemas

Asharee added some helpful links to marketing/docs packages

Mary added support for resolving vt.tiktok.com short share links in embeds

Mary improved how full-width images looked in the editor

Steph fixed a bug with subject line rendering variables on archive pages

Justin sped up subscriber-facing archive pages by trimming unused query projections

Justin tightened API input schemas so that bad payloads now return 422 instead of 500

Justin and Anita fixed a bug where cached page view counts could drop unexpectedly

Tanvir improved the OpenAPI schema for surveys

Tanvir improved the OpenAPI schema for Notes

Justin fixed a bug with validating sending domains

Mary fixed a bug where some archive pages weren't poking to the right RSS feed

Mary added pinch-to-zoom support for archive pages

Mary fixed an issue where pasting from Google Docs would sometimes result in black-on-black text (thanks, SFJ!)

Justin fixed a bug with subscription reminders not sending out in some cases

Justin hid the "Paid subscribers only" option for newsletters without paid subscriptions

Steph fixed a bug with Source Serif 4 not working correctly

Matias sped up the audience size calculation for a given email

Justin added a warning for when you delete a load-bearing product in Stripe

Mary added a dedicated /portal URL for subscribers signing in

Mary improved TikTok embedding support

Mary made the author-facing dropdown menus more accessible

Justin added a callout for when it's the first send from a new domain

Mary made the automation trigger picker searchable and accessible

Mary added a sign-in fallback for no-JS visitors hitting the archive paywall

Mary improved the editor in dark mode

Justin fixed a race condition with Stripe and author registration

Justin sped up (and cleaned up) the markdown rendering engine

Justin and Steph consolidated some of the docs on paid subscriptions

Justin fixed a bug where hard bounces on confirmation emails were being referred to as "unknown"

Mary fixed a bug where comment failures were not being reported

Matias improved scroll sync between the editor and the preview

Justin fixed a bug with audience counts not updating after changing the audience (thanks, Glenn!)

Mary fixed a bug with archival email types not being honored

Justin tweaked subscriber imports to reject any subscribers whose date is in the future

Justin cleaned up some outdated docs

Justin sped up the outgoing email validator by 50%

Justin updated the docs for preflight validators

Justin started exposing the country associated with a subscriber's IP address via API and the subscriber drawer

Justin and Anita fixed a bug with overriding the default icon for social URLs

Matias restored the YouTube play button in embeds

Steph fixed a broken callout in the survey drawer

Mary added the ability to customize where the H1 heading is rendered in the Lovelace theme

Steph improved the mobile styling for the Arbus theme

Justin fixed a bug where some non-actionable firewall reasons were showing up in the subscriber drawer

Tanvir expanded the OpenAPI spec to include new errors

Justin bolstered the filtering of bots from pageview tracking

Justin tweaked the behavior of resubscribing undeliverable subscribers

Mary started deduping incoming images and attachments by hash

Justin fixed a bug in the firewall in which we were poorly scoring subscription requests on embedded forms that could be associated with authors

Matt fixed a bug with the automations timing input

Justin fixed a bug where we weren't re-driving last_open_date for very new subscribers

Justin fixed a bug with the idempotency of the Stripe account sync

Mary tweaked the CSS of the modern email theme to remove some !important

Mary fixed a bug with apostrophes in Fancy Mode

Mary improved dark mode styling for inline code and footnotes

Mary improved the sign-in form styling on the public archive page

Justin fixed a bug where we let authors attempt to bulk-change Stripe subscriptions to a one-time fee

Justin started enforcing a maximum size of 1MB for all incoming attachments

Justin and Steph fixed a bug with changing your primary Stripe product in paid subscriptions (thanks, Mandy!)

Justin and Anita added validation to reject usernames with @

Justin fixed a bug where our post-send email pointed to the wrong link to disable said email (thanks, Nic!)

Justin tweaked the Cloudflare Turnstile to have it show in response to all firewall failures, not just IP-related ones

Justin refactored how imports work to help pave the way towards unified imports across subscriber + archives

Justin fixed a benign bug where very large tag IDs would throw a 500

Justin fixed a bug where you could accidentally set conflicting hosting + sending domains

Justin modified the duplicate-email detection for scheduled emails to move potential duplicates back to drafts instead of errored

Justin added a preflight check to flag if your canonical_url returns a 404

Justin added a check to reject incoming signups from a domain without an MX record

Justin fixed a bug where embedded Stripe checkout would not work in iFrames

Mary fixed a bug with default behavior for premium audiences (thanks, David!)

Mary fixed the TikTok docs (thanks, Sacha!)

Matias improved in-app setup for apex domains

Justin and Steph fixed a bug where some settings pages had two kebab menus

Justin fixed a bug where paywalled archive pages were getting rendered funkily (thanks, Wendy!)

Justin implemented the /invoke endpoint to manually trigger automations

Matias started using Google DNS for our DNS lookups

Matias fixed a bug where very long email addresses were causing the button in the subscribe form to look weird

Justin added a warning for when you're editing an email draft that's out of date

Mary added a checkbox to automatically select all rows in a table

Justin sped up the performance of emails with attachments

Steph added support for European Portuguese (thanks, Daniel!)

Justin added more actions for subscriber.paid automation triggers

Justin added the ability to filter on subscriber.source in automations and sending

Justin fixed a bug where we were overriding the content type of SVGs

Mary fixed a huge number of automations papercuts (thanks, Erik!)

Justin and Steph added the ability to see existing metadata keys when importing subscribers

Justin improved the performance of subscriber creation

Justin tweaked re-confirmation through embedded forms to honor custom confirmation URLs

Justin added logic to unwrap youtu.be URLs to youtube.com since some clients consider youtu.be URLs to be invalid/spammy (thanks, Rumicat!)

Justin added logic to fall back to shared click/open domain if a custom tracking domain is not yet fully configured

Justin fixed a benign RSS parsing bug

Justin added the ability to filter events by those with webhook failures

Justin tweaked the embedded form flow to append tags rather than replace them for existing subscribers

Justin added the ability to delete all attachments from the Files page

Mary added autofocus to the create subscriber modal

Steph added support for Norwegian (thanks, Øystein!)

Mary bolstered the docs for webwalls

Justin fixed a bug where you could create automations with invalid tag filters

Mary fixed some of Justin's bad design choices

Justin fixed a bug where you could save unrenderable subjects for custom transactional emails

Justin fixed a bug with Mailchimp imports

Justin fixed a bug with invalid /v1/notes payloads returning 500

Justin added an automation trigger for subscriber.delivered

Justin added some missing localization strings in the SubscribeForm

Justin exposed gift_subscription_end_date in the API (thanks, Glenn!)

Matias and Steph fixed a bug with tag sorting

Justin added the ability to delete all images

Tanvir tightened up the OpenAPI schema

Justin added the ability to provide alt text for your uploaded newsletter icon

Justin and Steph fixed (we hope) how support messages appear in the inbox

Justin fixed a bug with incorrect export idempotency (thanks, Henrik!)

Justin and Steph fixed a bug with archive imports failing when they shared subjects with existing emails

Justin added an archive importer for Pencilbooth

Justin fixed a bug with validation for folks who are given naked_mode gratis (thanks, James!)

Justin fixed a bug with very very old Stripe charges not getting processed

Matias sped up the firewall by adding an index

Justin and Ryan updated the /security page by linking to subprocessors

Justin and Steph fixed an issue with importing archives with duplicate titles (thanks, Merel!)

Justin fixed a bug with pageview tracking for individual comment detail pages

Mary tweaked archive visibility granularity

Justin localized the subjects of transactional emails

Justin and Matias added Turnstile support to custom domains

Steph fixed a bug with some custom fonts not loading

Justin and Anita moved the "accent color" setting from general to email, since it only impacts emails

Steph fixed some broken links on this very page

Matias stopped storing response data for API requests

Justin and Steph added backwards-compatible permalinks for Curated imports

Justin added replies as a top-level analytics metric

Justin added a pre-flight warning for URL shorteners

Justin and Anita fixed a bug with automation drafts (thanks, Eric!)

Justin fixed a missing space in the footer of the marketing site (thanks, Matt!)

Justin added a middleware for annoying vulnerability scanners

Mary fixed a z-index issue with pinned emails

Justin added a slew of field descriptions to the OpenAPI spec

Justin and Anita tweaked the percentage formatter to show <1% instead of 0% for very low numbers (thanks, Michael!)

Justin and Anita fixed a bug where we were still surfacing a newsletter's email address in transactional emails

Justin fixed a bug where connection issues would cause the subscribe form to be sad

Justin added stronger validation to the RSS-to-email endpoints

Justin added opt-in CSS variable inlining for outbound emails

Mary fixed a cosmetic bug in Fancy Mode with captionless images

Mary and Nickd renamed and cleaned up /settings/files (nee /settings/data)

Mary added Cloudflare's new email service to the ESP comparison guide

Justin tweaked the firewall which was penalizing long-but-valid email addresses

Ben sped up sending domain registration

Justin introduced more aggressive blocking of comically large (10MB+) emails

Justin fixed a bug where we were sending multiple emails for temporary pauses

Justin and Steph cleaned up the email footer copy for premium emails

Justin added the ability to see the audience of emails after they've been sent

Justin added a chart of accepted vs. blocked subscribers when the firewall is enabled

Justin tweaked the send_reminders bulk action to send the actual first opt-in email if the subscriber never received it

Justin and Steph fixed a bug where errors in alt text / description generation would show up in the text input rather than as toasts

Justin fixed a bug with redirect-based payment methods in embedded checkout

Justin improved performance for aggregating failures within an email

Justin and Anita tweaked the Firewall to no longer factor in an author's IP address when changing an email address in the dashboard

Matias improved performance on Subscriber queries

Mary fixed some issues with dark mode styling in Fancy Mode

Justin added searching and filtering to this very changelog

Justin added support for customizing upsell text in paid subscriptions

Mary fixed a bug where editor mode was showing up in the email's description

Mary fixed a broken iFrame in the docs

Mary improved the consistency of the two design settings pages

Justin added a louder warning for newsletters with incomplete DNS setup

Justin added some new docs for various automations patterns

Justin started gating metadata and transactional email customization behind paid plans

Justin added support for blocking certain user agents for custom hosting domains (thanks, Alice!)

Justin fixed a bug where we allowed transitioning an undeliverable subscriber to regular even if they had an ESP suppression

Tanvir added error fixtures to the OpenAPI spec

Steph and Anita augmented the double opt-in docs

Mary fixed some issues with gated archives

Justin improved support for Beehiiv imports

Justin fleshed out the Shopify integration docs

Tanvir added stateful links to the OpenAPI schema

Justin added a recommendation to /home to turn on automations

Justin wrote a dedicated doc on double opt-in

Mary rebuilt the embeddings page

Mary fixed a bug where links in blockquotes would sometimes have an inaccessible color

Justin fixed a bug where the CTA to subscribe would still show even after subscription

Justin and Anita added click/open rate to the subscriber profile drawer (thanks, Reilly!)

Justin fixed a bug where old tags from subscription attempts that failed the firewall would linger (thanks, Michael!)

Justin improved the archive import drawer state when not started

Justin improved some selects around creating new automations

Justin tweaked the custom DNS onboarding to only request an MX record when one doesn't already exist on the domain

Justin added a public API endpoint for imports

Steph added some documentation around NS records

Justin added an archive importer for Curated

Mary improved the UX when someone attempts to upload a video as an attachment

Mary aded top-level summaries to all list endpoint docs

Justin fixed a bug that allowed callers to create scheduled emails without publish dates

Justin and Steph fixed a bug with our unsubscribe_url checking to be more permissive with custom templates

Justin started rejecting usernames with non-ASCII characters

Mary added subscriberwall to only let subscribers read content

Mary cleaned up the branding docs

Justin added support for Estonian (thanks, Jakob!)

Steph fixed a typo in the documentation for snippets

Justin added a preflight checker for outdated copyright years

Justin fixed some misaligned empty state in /analytics

Justin added a new doc for account review

Justin bolstered the OpenAPI schema for automations

Mary fixed a bug with some of the API reference not auto-linking to the right types

Justin converted a few comparison guides to be calculators

Justin fixed a bug with serializing percentage-based coupons

Justin fixed a bug where automation drafts were silently failing

Justin improved the accessibility of the AM/PM buttons in the datetime picker (thanks, Ann!)

Justin removed the slight bonus we gave in firewall to freemail domains

Mary fixed a bug with overflow newsletter names on archives

Justin fixed a benign escaping bug with malformed surrogates

Justin updated the subprocessors list to remove AWS

Justin and Anita added a todo to nudge authors to turn on firewall if they get complaints during double opt-in

Justin and Steph started pinning featured emails to the top of the author app regardless of ordering

Justin tweaked the welcome email to use the custom subject, if present, to override "You're in!"

Mary added even more accessibility improvements

Justin improved performance of core sending + rendering engine through some file-level caching

Justin fixed bug where we were hard-failing when an import sent us invalid hex colors

Justin fixed bug where some bots were triggering magic link emails

Justin added the ability to turn on fingerprinting for embedded iFrames

Justin added the ability to bulk-change commenting_mode of emails

Justin fixed a bug where replies from the author were appearing in the subscriber detail view as if they were coming from the subscriber

Justin improved the schema for socials in /v1/newsletters.

Mary refactored and cleaned up the subscription form.

Justin added the ability to automatically mark subscribers as deliverable if their email changes in Stripe (thanks, David!)

Justin and Steph fixed a bug where metadata on subscribers from an embedded form wasn't getting cached properly (thanks, Alison!)

Justin and Steph fixed a bug with incorrect inbound reply attribution (thanks, Andrew!)

Justin improved the performance of the firewall

Mary fixed the bug where an inert subscribe button was showing up on private newsletters

Mary added a bunch of accessibility improvements

Justin improved the corpus of async work in a myriad of ways to raise all boats, as it were

Justin fixed bug where some newsletters with custom email templates had wonky in-app previews

Justin added the ability to toggle between archived and unarchived items in the inbox (thanks, Nadia!)

Justin started forwarding emails from foo@buttondown.email to the relevant newsletter authors as well via reply routing

Mary aligned icons and padding in the design system

Nickd tweaked the copy on the billing page

Asharee added a DPA link from the privacy policy

Justin fixed a benign error when fetching analytics for automations without actions

Mary improved the color consistency of the editor menu

Steph improved the Spanish translation

Mary surfaced Email.archival_mode in /v1/emails

Nickd rewrote some of our auditing emails to be, well, better

Justin and Anita fixed a bug with incorrectly marking all subscribers in a batch as undeliverable

Justin improved the periodic report emails to be slightly more useful and ergonomic

Justin fixed a bug where old-style automations that referenced non-TypeID tags were failing to render (thanks, Michael!)

Justin added a new analytic for referrals (thanks, Andy!)

Matt added better error/invalidation states for automations

Justin bumped the global daily API rate limit by 10x for authors who have been permanently approved

Justin fixed a bug where we weren't sending the author-facing premium welcome email if they were transitioning directly from unactivated (thanks, David!)

Justin bolstered the building your subscriber base a bit

Justin fixed some issues with the subscribe modal on mobile (thanks, Westley!)

Justin fixed benign bug with /v1/attachments when passing malformed Android data

Justin removed an N+1 from /v1/emails

Justin tweaked the docs layout a bit

Tanvir added a stricter regex for color fields in the API

Justin moved around the whitelabeling toggle in Settings

Tanvir improved the OpenAPI spec to preserve nullable types in the API

Mary fixed some z-index issues in the core author-facing app

Justin fixed bug where we weren't pre-emptively gating tags behind the paywall in the frontend for paid subscriptions

Justin improved the styling of the Data settings page

Justin fixed issue for authors commenting when they had multiple permissions

Mary improved behavior of scrolling on drawers

Justin fixed a bug where competing bulk actions could get stuck

Asharee added an example of using radio buttons in subscription forms

Justin got rid of /settings/domains and moved the inputs into the hosting and sending pages

Justin added Link headers to paginated API responses

Nick improved copy for the 100th subscriber milestone email

Justin vended and rewrote littlefoot, our inline footnote provider

Justin added support for Bookshop embeds

Matias added support for Nepali as a supported locale for subscriber-facing content like archives

Justin renamed the design pages — "Archive design" is now "Web" and "Email design" is now "Email" — and moved them into their own /settings/design folder

Matias added rate limiting to magic links for privacy

Justin added the ability to set up custom click tracking domains via self-service

Justin fixed an edge case with slug uniqueness for emails coming from RSS-to-email

Justin cached DNS lookups for a minute to speed up the domains settings page

Justin formally removed the should_track_replies option — reply tracking is now always-on

Justin fixed a bug where you could turn off permissions on your own legacy API key

Mary added better billing flows for teams

Justin added inbound reply routing so username@buttondown.com gets routed to the account owner

Anita fixed a broken button in automation detail drawers

Anita improved documentation around buttondown-editor-mode

Justin made reply tracking always-on for all newsletters — replies are now automatically tracked through Buttondown, so there's no toggle to worry about. If you have a custom reply-to address, that still takes priority.

Justin added support for one-time PWYW payments via the embedded checkout flow for paid subscriptions

Justin and Steph added create_gift_subscriber automation action

Anita resurfaced subscriber referrals setting in /settings/general for analytics

Anita tweaked magic link emails to not reference "managing subscriptions" if they were sent via paywall

Matias added the Firewall to magic links

Justin updated the cookie policy doc with specific timing information for privacy

Mary improved image resizing in Fancy Mode

Justin add support for aggregating emails based on open rate

Mary migrated core app to Vite 8

Justin updated the stack with various changes

Justin fixed a bug with the CLI incorrectly duplicating images

Justin fixed a bug with the announcement_bar_visibility schema type

Justin added support for saving subscriber filters as custom segments

Justin added stronger idempotence when creating new Stripe prices

Justin and Steph fixed a bug with newly created exports not being found

Justin and Anita added a firewall facet for comment text that looks spammy due to URLs

Steph fixed a bug with the rename metadata modal action

Matt improved the UX of stale filters when changing a trigger within automations

Justin turned on CSS inlining for everyone

Justin fixed a bug where we were flagging base64 content was potentially having prohibited keywords

Justin added a link from the survey drawer to any automations which reference it

Justin added support for detecting Netlify-proxied requests in the API

Justin and Anita fixed bug where draft deliveries were being counted in analytics

Justin unshipped sharing_networks and started deriving it from an author's social links

Justin reorganized the email detail drawer

Justin moved advanced paid subscriptions settings into their own drawer

Justin fixed bug where embeds in Fancy Mode were autoexpanding on list items

Justin added a highlight affordance for various content addons in archives

Justin added a small FAQ about "guest customers" in Stripe

Justin improved rendering of nested comments in archives

Justin fixed some edge case jank with automations

Justin improved the design of /settings/data

Mary added a bespoke timepicker

Steph added an annex to the Data Processing Agreement

Anita added PATCH /v1/images to change metadata after uploading

Anita fixed bug where the save tray wasn't handling archive navigation links correctly

Justin reorganized the blog categories a tiny bit

Justin combined the dark mode + light mode color variants for settings

Justin added the ability to choose blockquote styles

added an A/B test for /pricing CTA

Justin redesigned /stack

Justin filtered out inoperational domains from subscriber imports

Mary fixed issue with dropping an image into the caption of another image

Mary fixed the save button getting stuck when switching to or from Naked Mode

Justin fixed a few edge cases with Stripe price creation for paid subscriptions

Justin fixed a bug where absent values in PATCH requests were being treated as nulls in the API

Justin fixed issue where updates to subscribers were hanging on the clientside after navigating from search

Justin updated the legal docs

Justin and Anita fixed a bug with images refusing to scale down on Outlook Desktop

Justin added metadata to /v1/images

Justin and Anita fixed a bug with improper validation on transactional email templates

Justin added a constraint to PATCH /v1/emails that forbids empty bodies for non-draft emails

Justin fixed a bug where our draft sending was very naively detecting paywalls

Justin fixed bug when editing automations with the create_export action

Justin reordered comments to colocate replies

Justin gated setting custom domains via the API behind the paywall

Justin expanded the firewall to better detect Shannon entropy

Justin added background colors to archival theme customization

Justin improved the todo for migrating older API keys

Justin Showed legacy API keys in /keys alongside the new adhoc keys

Justin Fixed bug with firewall aggression being high for embedded iframes

Matias started requiring magic link access before viewing subscriber-specific archives

Matias fixed bug where portal dashboard was not respecting custom domains for newsletters

Mary improved the color picker even more

Justin improved blockquote readability in dark mode

Justin formally archived the GitHub roadmap

Matias started preserving referrer URL even with CAPTCHA resubmission

Asharee Fixed a bunch of meta descriptions

Asharee Improved Tidal integration

Steph fixed bug with premium unsubscriptions being overridden by webhook race conditions

Steph fixed bug with survey detail page not showing which emails it was sent in

Anita fixed bug where replies to drafts were not being tracked

Steph improved error message for invalid slugs

Justin fixed odd bug with malformed subscriber import metadata

Mary fixed imprecise time estimates when scheduling an email

Matt redesigned the automations flow to be more conducive for multi-step automations

Justin added an automation action for updating email visibility

Steph fixed some bad marketing site styling on mobile

Justin added a three day grace period when deleting newsletters

Justin added the ability to right-click on a row to pull up its options in /emails et al

Justin fixed a bug which allowed creating "sent" emails without a secondary_id

Justin fixed a bug where some subscribers were being omitted from the comments drilldown modal in analytics

Mary improved the inputs for archive footer/header

Mary improved the design of social inputs

Justin fixed the archives' hamburger button height

Justin improved the performance of batch checking many links

Justin shipped a new API version with safer defaults for sending emails

Justin fixed benign bug when browsing archives via the TikTok browser

Justin fixed bug where failed Bluesky crossposts were stuck as pending

Mary added frontend support for passkeys

Mary fixed bug with rendering previews for snippets in web

Mary added HTML support for some transactional emails

Justin fixed bug with Newsletter.social that had “handle” instead of “url” somehow

Mary cleaned up the “about to send / sending” dialog

Justin fixed bug where we allowed you to remove the publish date from a scheduled email

Mary rebuilt the color picker

Justin fixed bug where /paid-subscriptions would show odd data for authors with >100 prices

Justin fixed lingering pay-per-email setup bug

Justin fixed bug where the auto-generated share image would sometimes get "stuck" on the original creation date

Justin improved styling of template variables in Fancy mode on mobile

Justin fixed bug where the CLI would no-op broken images whilst downloading

Justin added descriptions and examples to list filter fields in the OpenAPI spec

Justin added the ability to choose an API version when creating a new key

Justin fixed a bug where resubscribed subscribers still had an undeliverability_date

Justin fixed a bug where snippet previews were not showing up in emails

Justin started flagging when connected Stripe accounts had disabled payments

Justin fixed some jank in the 404 template for the classic theme

Justin fixed a bug where some replies to support conversations were showing up in the inbox as if they were from support

Justin Improved sponsorship management flow a bit

Mary Improved keyboard accessibility of the newsletter switcher

Justin Fixed bug with route-based filtering in the API requests page

Tanvir Publicly launched the new version of the API with TypeID

Justin Fixed bug with very long archive import filenames

Justin Fixed bug with parsing CSVs that had entirely blank columns

Justin Fixed bug with JSON validation for Newsletter.socials

Justin Improved the /keys drawer UI

Justin Added the import date to the drawer for completed subscriber imports

Justin Started sending attempted events when we send emails ad-hoc (such as bulk actions)

Justin Fixed bug with unicode characters within custom buttons being rendered oddly

Mary Added support for recovery codes for 2FA

Justin Added configure button to /settings/domains even if the domain is already set up correctly

Justin Inlined the specific Archives settings so they're colocated with their toggle

Justin Fixed bug where font changes weren't previewing correctly

Justin Fixed bug where paywalls weren't previewing correctly for premium subscribers on web

Justin Improved display of classic-theme emails in the editor whilst in dark mode

Mary Replaced the inline MFA field with a distinct second screen

Justin Fixed bug with rendering some Twitter URLs

Justin Added a badge for custom buttons without custom URLs (thanks, Jacob!)

Justin Added filtering in /emails by opens/clicks/deliveries

Justin Fixed bug where fingerprinting in iFrames wasn't carrying over

Justin Removed avatars from the RSS feed for this very page (thanks, Mark!)

Justin Fixed bug where a few lifecycle emails didn't have an unsubscribe link

Justin Stopped marking a domain as having an RSS feed if that domain just 307'd to Buttondown

Justin Moved API version migration to a per-key level

Mary Added tolerance to 2FA so you can take your time (h/t @mary)

Mary Fixed bug with previewing older versions of CSS (h/t @mary)

Justin Improved automation validation in external APIs

Justin Fixed bug where we allowed you to create PWYW prices with identical minimum and maximum prices in paid subscriptions

Justin Tweaked API rate limiting to count failures as well as successful requests

Justin Added a slew of details to our OpenAPI spec

Justin Tweaked magic link to reject email addresses without a matching subscriber

Justin Improved the archive import success drawer

Anita Reintroduced email.url template variable

Justin Fixed bug in Beehiiv importer to handle smaller imports

Justin Added stricter checking of imported subscribers against our existing ESP list

Justin Fixed two edge case bugs with our CLI

Justin Improved visibility into why subscriber imports' rows are filtered out

Justin Fixed bug where we allowed invalid automations to be created via API

Justin Fixed bug where /home failed to load when a newsletter has pending sponsorships

Justin Fixed bug introduced by Twitter in their batch tweet API

Mary Added the ability to disconnect from SSO/password

Cut a new version of the API which allows parameterizing timing per-action

Added the ability to create new draft emails from old RSS items

Justin Fixed bug with filtering emails in the API by -status

Ben Fixed a smattering of broken images in docs

Justin Added an activity item in /home for when your billing plan/status changes

Justin Fixed bug where we asked you to supply a cadence for per-email pricing in paid subscriptions

Justin Fixed benign NUL byte bug when storing unknown archive imports

Justin When you downgrade from a paid plan to free, custom domains are now disabled (consistent with other features).

Justin Fixed Apple Music embeds not working in the email preview—Apple now requires the name slug in embed URLs

Justin Fixed 500 errors when previewing transactional emails (e.g. subscription confirmation) with invalid template syntax like empty variable tags in the Fancy Mode editor

Pushed back the paywall for RSS-to-email to activation, not creation

Justin Added importing of arbitrary HTML blobs

Justin Bumped up rate limit for Zapier users in good standing

Justin Fixed bug with programmatically setting related emails for an email by slug via the API

Steph Improved login CTA for paywalled content

Ben Redesigned the search modal for the docs

Added an integration for Tidal

Steph Added support for Apple Music embeds in a different format

Justin Fixed clientside permissions issues for users with read-but-not-write subscribers permissions

Improved RSS-to-email creation flow

Mary Fixed email-only paste handling in textareas

Cleaned up the automations UI

Matias Added Firewall rule for penalizing email addresses which failed to subscribe to other newsletters

Justin Improved UX for subscribing whilst authenticated as a subscriber to another newsletter

Improved various parts of the automations UI

Justin Improved the copy of premium emails sent to paid subscribers

Mary Fixed the janky styling of the forgotten password page

Matias Fixed (hopefully!) another infinite-reload bug

Justin Fixed a bug when navigating across integrations drawers

Mary Improved performance of Fancy Mode editor

Justin Added Firewall rules around common spammy patterns

Mary Redesigned the security/account pages

Justin Added the ability to filter comments by email or date

Ben Finished cleaning up the docs

Improved the Archives marketing page

Justin Fixed a remaining subset of CORS/preload issues

Anita Retooled KYC messaging

Justin Moved paid subscriptions to the sidebar if enabled

Added "other" fallback archive import for unbuilt importers

Steph Fixed "alternatives" cards looking wonky

Justin Slightly restyled comments

Justin Fixed trivial timezone bug with Stripe subscriptions

Justin Started rolling out Cloudflare Turnstile on custom domains to reduce bot signups

Justin Added embedded checkout to upgrade flows for paid subscriptions

Justin Renamed "Archive design" to "Archives" for clarity

Justin Exposed a bunch more newsletter settings to the public API

Justin Added a bunch of FAQs to feature pages

Justin Fixed one last R2 issue with the portal list page

Steph Fixed a mismatch in newer Stripe API version cadences for paid subscriptions

Mary Rebuilt the snippet editor to allow naked mode and be full page

Justin Standardized some buttons in the manage subscription view and added a backlink

Added a new dynamic drilldown component for nested data

Justin Added initial backend support for further webwall customization

Justin Emails that are scheduled rather than immediately sent now get hit with validators at schedule time rather than when they get published

Steph Fixed bug where we were failing clientside to show a new paid subscription price after creating it

Justin Added a better description for when you're missing your DMARC policy

Justin Fixed a few benign API/validation bugs

Justin Tweaked paid subscriptions behavior to just always mark the most recently created price as the default

Anita Removed the duplicate email OutgoingEmailValidator and now just prompt for confirmation before sending

Justin Improved OpenAPI schema for RSS feed endpoints

Justin Bumped up css-inline which should fix some edge cases where inline styles were getting overridden

Anita Fixed bug with updating email addresses in the manage subscription page

Steph Fixed bug with going from PWYW to non-PWYW if you already had a dormant PWYW price

Justin Started rejecting email bodies that look like they have frontmatter since it's probably a mistake

Mary Fixed pagination bug with deliveries in the email analytics drilldown

Justin Fixed bug with the CLI modifying irrelevant files

Justin Fixed benign Unicode surrogate bug

Justin Fixed benign bug in the automation analytics endpoint

Justin Started vouching for email addresses that have old ESP suppressions if they complete double opt-in

Justin Added subject line editing to Naked Mode

Justin Added the ability to expand the subscriber import drawer to full width

Justin Improved the timezone/locale input

Steph Desensitized the RSS feed alerts

Mary Fixed broken link in docs

Justin Improved copy for empty state on /subscribers

Justin Added auto-linking for type IDs in /requests

Steph Added a generator meta tag for Simple Analytics

Justin Added a confirmation step for deleting your account

Justin Fixed bug with migrating your API version if you had many keys

Anita Fixed bug with unsubscription events summary being different than the drilldown

Justin Improved retry logic on emails which we had to backoff due to rate limiting

Ben Cleaned up the "getting started" docs

Justin Debounced the number of times we update RSS subscriber count for a newsletter

Justin GA'd custom email templates via the whitelabeling entitlement

Steph Fixed bug with TypeID on embedded forms

Matias Started warning people about API keys in frontend places

Justin Allowed X-Buttondown-Live-Dangerously to bypass CORS in /v1/images

Cleaned up more blog post descriptions

Ben Cleaned up more docs

Justin Fixed 500 when passing invalid parameters to send-draft endpoint

Justin Removed the ability to unsubscribe directly from the "portal dashboard"

Justin Fixed bug with the CSS editor's current-line highlighting

Justin Fixed bug where we were incorrectly showing blockquotes as dark mode in the preview

Justin Fixed bug where we were not sending out invitations to older accounts that already existed

Justin Fixed bug with inconsistent image sync in the CLI

Justin Fixed bug where naked mode welcome emails still showed frontmatter

Justin Fixed bug where we failed to sync authors in RSS feed with very long names

Justin Started flagging default/placeholder alt text in the email validator

Justin Added Obsidian to the /stack

Justin Started setting unsubscription_date for imported unsubscribers

Justin Fixed bug where we threw a 500 if you tried to aggregate by click/open date

Justin Started surfacing support threads in the /inbox

Justin Improved the subscription experience on mobile by turning the CTA into a modal

Steph Fixed bug with LinkedIn social icons not being set

Steph Moved social links from Archives to general settings because they're used for emails, too

Justin Fixed the Integrations marketing page looking janky

Justin Fixed bug where we were failing to parse reply-to-replies in Postmark

Ben Improved the /changelog layout

Justin Fixed a bug where we weren't showing KYC questionnaire to users who hadn't finished/skipped onboarding

Justin Removed paused subscriptions and merged them into cancellations

Steph Fixed bug where whitelabeling was not toggleable from the general settings

Ben Fixed bug where Markdown versions of docs weren't resolving correctly

Tanvir Added Swedish as a supported locale for subscriber-facing content

Steph Fixed bug with double-conversion from cents-dollars for PWYW prices in USD

Matias Added the ability to filter and send to subscribers based on open/click rate

Ben Improved process of keeping author's sending email in sync when they add a new sending domain

Matias Started truncating API requests to the past month rather than the past year

Justin Started prompting folks who were referred by a friend/colleague to select the username for referral's purposes

Ben Fixed display issue when we show null percentages

Justin Added a theme option to tweak size of blockquotes

Justin Allowed passing in subscriber_id alongside POST /v1/comments

Steph Fixed a bug where we missed a folder when uploading assets to R2

Matias Exposed the per-subscriber open and click rates via the API

Justin ★ Started automatically parsing all Postmark and Mailgun emails for custom domains

Justin Added X-Buttondown-Live-Dangerously to bypass SVG prohibitions in /v1/images

Justin Added the ability to make certain images non-zoomable

Justin Fixed bug with input validation on analytics endpoints

Justin Started checking ESP suppressions in firewall

Justin Fixed QR code visibility in dark mode

Justin Added support for PWYW subscriptions with specific cadences

Justin Added referral source autocompletion during onboarding

Justin Fixed some jankiness with the test mode banner on emails

Justin Removed the ability to unsubscribe unactivated subscribers

Justin Polished and published /settings/data

Justin Added syntax highlighting to code snippets in comments

Justin Documented the X-Buttondown-Bypass-Firewall header

Justin Cleaned up a few jank areas in Lovelace

Ben Fix a broken doc and update a bunch more besides

Steph Fix some broken images

Justin Renamed css_tokens to theme_configuration

Steph Fixed bug with double h1 on archive pages

Mary ★ Migrated our static assets to be hosted on Cloudflare R2, reducing failures during deploys

Justin Added basic metadata extraction + application for folks migrating from Substack/Beehiiv

Steph Fixed a race condition with clientside currency conversion when setting up paid subscriptions

Justin Fixed bug where we incorrectly failed to parse valid URLs with unicode in them when rendering Markdown

Steph Fixed bug where we were proxying all SimpleAnalytics data onto our account

Justin Added some more onboarding todos

Justin Fixed bug where we weren't showing images in tracked replies

Justin Fixed bug where export → Markdown wasn't working for individual emails

Mary Ported the new date widget to /analytics

Mary Standardized and cleaned up our context menu component

Mary Improved reply HTML sanitization even more

Steph Started prompting disabled users to provide socials

Justin Started rejecting SVGs for newsletter icons b/c they break in emails

Steph Started stripping as_embed param from magic link redirects so people don't get stuck in a tiny box

Tanvir Migrated /v1/bulk_actions to use TypeID

Justin Fixed bug where we asked people to supply KYC info even if they already had

Justin Fixed some more edge cases with HTML in the /inbox

Steph Cleaned up the footer for emails we send to premium subscribers

Mary Added a cross-platform date picker

Justin Fixed tiny bug where the link checker was flagging template tags like [Click here]({{ manage_subscription_url }})

Mary Fixed bug where we weren't sanitizing HTML from emails in the inbox/conversation views

Mary Improved editor toolbar on mobile

Matias Fixed bug where sending an email via bulk action right after sending a draft could send the draft variant of the email

Anita Changed the date-based cutoff for tracking domains to a flag-based one

Ben Cleaned up a whole bunch of Archives docs

Mary Migrated even more forms to use Formisch and a slightly revised design system

Justin Added a few new lifecycle emails and removed stale ones that were dead code

Justin Fixed benign bug in /v1/emails

Anita Started deleting stale ESPSuppressions

Anita Fixed bug where announcement bar was showing even in embedded subscribe forms

Justin Fixed (hopefully) some transient deadlock/DB race conditions that were slowing down our asynchronous action runner

Justin Fixed bug where we were asking disabled newsletters to submit KYC information even if they already had

Improved the storybook: better routing, a keyboard shortcut menu, and a request pane

Matias Start exposing reasons why a subscriber is blocked by the firewall to authors

Justin Start to require/add a custom CNAME for tracking domains for larger senders to derisk our own deliverability

Ben Cleaned up a whole bunch of docs

Justin We now have an admin action for ESPSuppression to allow removing/purging that suppression from the backing ESP

Justin Fixed some broken links in our KYC disablement emails

Justin Completely migrated off of DNSimple in favor of Cloudflare

Justin Deleted a lot of old code (removed old dependencies, unused ESPs, etc.)

Mary Migrated most forms to use Formisch and a slightly revised design system

Mary Migrated most forms to use Formisch and a slightly revised design system

Justin Deleted a lot of old code (removed old dependencies, unused ESPs, etc.)

Justin Completely migrated off of DNSimple in favor of Cloudflare

Justin Fixed some broken links in our KYC disablement emails

Justin We now have an admin action for ESPSuppression to allow removing/purging that suppression from the backing ESP

Ben Cleaned up a whole bunch of docs

Justin Start to require/add a custom CNAME for tracking domains for larger senders to derisk our own deliverability

Matias Start exposing reasons why a subscriber is blocked by the firewall to authors

Justin Removed redis requirement from demo to cut down on 500s

Justin Fix bug where tags could not be programmatically set for certain weird billing cases

Justin Fix bug where some automation actions had no label set for them

Justin Fix bug where invoices were showing in $$$ regardless of currency

Justin Fix bug where we allowed people to bypass the CSS billing constraints via API

Justin Started running the email analytics cacher more often now that it's cheap

Justin We now only see newsletters in the KYC queue if they've filled out the /home questionnaire after being disabled

Justin Moved the Snippets API to be public and added support for it within the CLI

Justin Fixed bug with validation of gift subscription metadata

Matias Improved performance for in-app search

Matias Improved performance for email event analytics

Steph Merged in a change to embedded checkout to allow better plexing between monthly/annual

Mary Redesigned callouts to be less visually chaotic

Justin Refactored firewall for improved functionality/productivity

Justin Added initial (janky) support for surveys in the archives

Justin Fixed bug where survey tags weren't validating properly within tiptap

Justin Archive searches now respect quotes for exact matching

Justin Bumped up mypy + django-stubs pretty heavily to yield some performance benefits

Mary The mobile variant of dialogs now triggers at a narrower viewport

Justin Expanded the TTL for Cleantalk responses from 3 to 30 days

Justin Moved QR code generation serverside to fix bug where icons weren't being embedded

Justin Migrated from ImprovMX to Cloudflare email workers for routing @buttondown.com

Justin Disabled users are now prompted in-app to answer questions about their newsletters to help out KYC

Justin Migrated some straggling domains' NS servers (but not ownership) from DNSimple to Cloudflare