Notices by Buttondown (buttondown@mastodon.social)

You should start a newsletter.
https://buttondown.com/blog/everyone-should-start-newsletter

Struggling with writers block?
We've added a cute little feature to get the wheels turning—writing prompts! You can toggle it on in the editor to get a boost of inspiration for your next newsletter topic.
https://buttondown.com/blog/writing-prompts

Two small ways we're tidying up the settings page.
https://buttondown.com/blog/settings-cleanup

What we lost when we lost comments
https://buttondown.com/blog/why-enable-comments

September was full of exciting new ships, like:
- Itemized event exports
- AI and search crawl settings
- Email analytics redesign
Learn more about these ships and how they can improve your newsletter experience!💙
https://buttondown.com/blog?category=changelog

Did Google flag a link in your newsletter as "suspicious?"
Don't panic—here's how to fix it.
https://docs.buttondown.com/gmail-suspicious-link

A chance to create offline relationships, hone your craft, and eat your bodyweight in envelope glue. 💌
https://buttondown.com/blog/snail-mail-newsletter

The question is only who pays for it, and how.
https://buttondown.com/blog/metered-email

We redesigned email analytics.
https://buttondown.com/blog/email-analytics

Our public postmortem for the incident on September 9th, 2026.
https://buttondown.com/blog/incident-0035

@deerbard Hi there! Please reach out to our support team at support@buttondown.com. Provided with more information, they can help you out with this issue and give more detail re: what's happening/why it's happening. This could be an issue on our end which they can resolve, if that's the case. Sorry about this inconvenience!💙

New ship—crawling setting!🚀
A good amount of folks asked for crawler blocking for their newsletter pages, so we added one. Now you can turn on or keep off newsletter archive crawling, blocking AI agents, SEO, & other crawlers, like vulnerability scanners & bots. This feature is available for all plans!💙
Read the full run down of this launch: https://buttondown.com/blog/crawling-settings

We gave up some of email’s ideals to wrangle spam, for now.
https://buttondown.com/blog/deliverability-and-decentralization

How we did some magic by deleting the three largest tables in our database.
https://buttondown.com/blog/the-great-pruning

New ship—itemized export for analytics!🚀
Now when you go to your analytics, you have the option to download an itemized export: every specific event that rolls up into your analytics numbers.
https://buttondown.com/blog/itemized-event-exports

Email is the second-oldest software interface, after the Terminal.
https://buttondown.com/blog/software_over_email

Big news—we wrote a book!🎉 📘

One of the main questions we get asked is, "What goes into making a newsletter?" So, the Buttondown team wrote a book about it!

Aptly titled, "The Newsletter Book" delves into the ingredients you need to create a newsletter, what other newsletter creators have tried, & what you can do to make yours a success.💙
Take a read here: https://buttondown.com/book

Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
https://buttondown.com/blog/incident-0034

August has been fun & full of super useful ships!🚀💙
Some of the new features we've launched this month are:
- Forms
- Send RSS digest on any day
- Segments
- Dig
- Analytics consolidation
Read up on these features & others you might have missed on our blog!
https://buttondown.com/blog

Can you use web fonts in email?
https://buttondown.com/blog/newsletter-custom-fonts