Notices by Buttondown (buttondown@mastodon.social), page 2

@loleg sorry about that! will post a tiny postmortem once I get back from jury duty 😅

Craft CMS folks — did you know some kind stranger started a Buttondown plugin?! Give it a spin!

https://plugins.craftcms.com/buttondown

Updates from February:

· A new subscriber details pane
· Better referrer analytics
· Zapier is even better
· RIP 'teasers'
· Lots of lovely essays
· A secret sixth thing
· Achieve superalignment (with your buttons)
· Faster search

https://newsletter.buttondown.com/archive/updates-from-february-3165/

G-G-G-G-G-GUEST POST!

Jon Sully, Typora aficionado, shares how to integrate it with Buttondown — and also acts as a bit of a backdoor pilot for "how to use the Buttondown API with ruby".

https://buttondown.com/blog/using-typora-as-a-custom-buttondown-frontend

@etp it is a forever game of cat and mouse, but right now the cat is winning!

What better way to spend a lovely Sunday than by, uh, reading a history of why we call it "mail merge"?

https://buttondown.com/blog/mail-merge-history

@matratype @onpaperwings @elliotjaystocks aw, i'm blushing! (and happy to answer any questions you have Pooja!)

"The content of a NWG (Network Working Group) note may be any thought, suggestion, etc. related to the HOST software or other aspect of the network.”

And with that, the RFC was born.

https://buttondown.com/blog/optimism-of-email

New analytic: pageviews by referrer!

https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-02-17

we are tired of manually emailing you about affiliate payouts. so our newest changelog entry is about making that easier.

https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-02-13

“The absolute most important trick, though, is: Be human,” says Friedman. “Write like a human. Write emails you wouldn’t mind reading. And respect your reader.”

https://buttondown.com/blog/write-newsletters-from-gmail

this and more in January's roundup:

https://newsletter.buttondown.com/archive/updates-from-january-9711/

https://mastodon.social/@angelo@social.droppedbits.com/113979951659194340

@reinier @gvenk 👀

An ode to the little-used format that everyone loves: the pop-up newsletter.

https://buttondown.com/blog/pop-up-newsletters

An ode to the little-used format that everyone loves: the pop-up newsletter.

https://buttondown.com/blog/pop-up-newsletters

Good morning. Consider starting your day by reading about ZINES.

https://buttondown.com/blog/zines

At long last, we have accomplished a professional goal: deputizing Homestar Runner and The West Wing in the same essay.

https://buttondown.com/blog/beta-newsletter-readers

🥳

What better way to end the month than by reading your favorite newsletter platform's latest changelog entry? [^1]

Hot off the presses — support for related emails! You can link folks to other issues in your back catalog!

https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-01-31

[^1]: please humor us

@rhazn if there are other things you'd find interesting, lmk!

did you know that we share every single other service we use to run Buttondown? and did you know that we published an update sharing what new stuff we started using (or stopped using) in the past year?

(well, now you do.)

https://buttondown.com/blog/updates-to-the-stack-2025