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What’s new
Buttondown’s gotten quite a bit better in January:
- You can now wire up an RSS feed to your newsletter and automatically publish new emails, either with each post or on a weekly/monthly cadence.
- You can now add alt text and HTML classes to images you upload without having to ‘drop down’ to HTML.
- A lot (a lot!) of small stuff: the email list page is three times as fast, the analytics page is twice as fast, the Zapier integration has better error messages, you can now more easily choose a share image for your emails, you can now execute bulk actions from the API, and there’s like seventeen other things that I’m forgetting I’m sure.
What’s coming
The theme of this season is ease, and my upcoming projects for February share a theme of making it easier to manage your newsletter without having to pop out to other tools. In particular, the three pieces of work in the hopper (you can read more about them on GitHub, where I track all of Buttondown’s work):
- Simple one-question subscriber surveys
- Automatic generation of share images
- Automatic posting to social networks
What’s exciting
- If you’ve written in to support@buttondown.email, you may have noticed that you’ve heard from someone other than me! I’m ecstatic to have had Ben join Buttondown as a support engineer; he’s been a huge help over this past month, and contributed to making sure the Buttondown onboarding and documentation experience is as good as it could be.
- Did you know Buttondown is on Mastodon? Please follow us — our paltry 14 followers is a pittance. (If you’re looking for a nice iOS client — I recommend Ivory.)
- If you’re a Discord user (Discordian? Discorder?), join Buttondown’s official Discord where you can get sneak peeks into upcoming features, chat with other users, and more!
As always…
Buttondown owes its existence to you, dear reader. I work on the things that make sense because enough users tell me about them; Buttondown has grown not because of any VC-subsidized marketing blitz but because people like it enough to tell other people to give it a shot.
If you think there’s something that needs to be improved — or, even better, if there’s just something you wish was improved — reply to this email because I want to hear more!