Notices by Buttondown (buttondown@mastodon.social)

It all started with what MIT assistant professor Paul Resnick called “A deceptively simple idea,” in 1994.
https://buttondown.com/blog/ringo-email-as-an-ai-interface

It's the first spooktacular day of Inktober!🎃🧑🎨

Many artists and illustrators choose to make newsletters because of the ability to maintain artistic freedom and share their artwork directly with their community. Read how Buttondown can elevate your newsletter.
buttondown.com/use-cases/designers-and-illustrators

What have we been up to in September? Glad you asked!

Here are updates we've made to improve Buttondown for you:

-Suppressed emails status
-CAPTCHAs
-Customizable gift unsubscription notifications
-Track paid subscribers churn
-Send emails based on subscriber lifecycle dates
-Enhanced control over the firewall
-Add UTM params to subscribers via form
& more!

buttondown.com/changelog

We asked you who you are–here’s what we’re learning.
https://buttondown.com/blog/onboarding-2

Small update!
We've tweaked how we handle consecutive soft bounces to be a little smarter.
https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-09-26

Pruning isn't just for gardeners. The one-third rule from horticulture can apply to your email lists, too.
https://buttondown.com/blog/email-list-cleaning

Happy National Comic Book Day!📖
Today, we are highlighting Sunday Comix! Created by Randall P. Girdner, Sunday Comix is a bi-weekly newsletter that enables readers to have a laugh while allowing comic artists to maintain creative control over their art.
buttondown.com/stories/randall-p-girdner

Big news!
We're phasing out our use of Stripe's payment links internally. This change is part of a bigger push to bring more of the checkout experience in-house. If you've already got payment links set up, don't worry — they'll keep working forever and your subscribers won't see any disruption!
Read more about it here:
buttondown.com/changelog/2025-09-22

The updates continue!
We're making it easier to send targeted emails based on when subscribers joined, upgraded, or churned. This week we shipped churn date tracking, and today's update lets you use that data to send targeted emails. Give it a try & let us know what you think!
buttondown.com/changelog/2025-09-20

New drop!
We've added a new way to track when your paid subscribers decide to move on (churn).
https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-09-19

❗Update❗
We've just shipped a small but mighty update for those of you running gift subscription promotions–customizable gift unsubscription notifications!
Read how to customize your automatic email message.
https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-09-18

Personalize your newsletter onboarding with metadata.
https://buttondown.com/blog/metadata-for-newsletter-personalization

🔥Firewall update🔥
We've added some new controls to help you fine-tune how Buttondown's firewall handles IP address auditing for new subscribers.
https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-09-17

Train a bot to create emails for you using a bit of code and Buttondown. 🤖
https://buttondown.com/blog/api-powered-email-newsletter

@carlton Thanks for tagging us. You are absolutely right. Sorry about that! We will get this fixed asap. :)

We've added CAPTCHAs to our hosted subscribe forums!
The forms will now conditionally show CAPTCHAs to subscribers in the event that we think they are right on the edge of being spam or problematic.
https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-09-16

Happy National Coding Week!👨💻👩💻
Buttondown is proud to be an open source company. We would be nowhere without open source software. Read about our software how we give back to the open source community.
https://buttondown.com/open-source

@kolombiken @naton
Hi! Thanks for tagging us. We're working on fixing this issue.

We've added a noteworthy feature!📝
Notes have been made more accessible across Buttondown. You can now add notes directly from subscriber profiles, tag pages, and RSS feed pages.
https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-09-08

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