Changelog

Improved copy for empty state on /subscribers

Added auto-linking for type IDs in /requests

Added a generator meta tag for Simple Analytics

Added a confirmation step for deleting your account

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

Fixed bug with unsubscription events summary being different than the drilldown

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

Cleaned up the "getting started" docs

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

GA'd custom email templates via the whitelabeling entitlement

Fixed bug with TypeID on embedded forms

Started warning people about API keys in frontend places

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

Cleaned up more blog post descriptions

Cleaned up more docs

Fixed 500 when passing invalid parameters to send-draft endpoint

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

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

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

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

Fixed bug with inconsistent image sync in the CLI

Fixed bug where naked mode welcome emails still showed frontmatter

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

Started flagging default/placeholder alt text in the email validator

Added Obsidian to the /stack

Started setting unsubscription_date for imported unsubscribers

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

Started surfacing support threads in the /inbox

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

Fixed bug with LinkedIn social icons not being set

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

Fixed the Integrations marketing page looking janky

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

Improved the /changelog layout

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

Removed paused subscriptions and merged them into cancellations

Fixed bug where whitelabeling was not toggleable from the general settings

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

Added Swedish as a supported locale for subscriber-facing content

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

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

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

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

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

Fixed display issue when we show null percentages

Added a theme option to tweak size of blockquotes

Allowed passing in subscriber_id alongside POST /v1/comments

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

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

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

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

Added the ability to make certain images non-zoomable

Fixed bug with input validation on analytics endpoints

Started checking ESP suppressions in firewall

Fixed QR code visibility in dark mode

Added support for PWYW subscriptions with specific cadences

Added referral source autocompletion during onboarding

Fixed some jankiness with the test mode banner on emails

Removed the ability to unsubscribe unactivated subscribers

Polished and published /settings/data

Added syntax highlighting to code snippets in comments

Documented the X-Buttondown-Bypass-Firewall header

Cleaned up a few jank areas in Lovelace

Fix a broken doc and update a bunch more besides

Fix some broken images

Renamed css_tokens to theme_configuration

Fixed bug with double h1 on archive pages

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

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

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

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

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

Added some more onboarding todos

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

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

Ported the new date widget to /analytics

Standardized and cleaned up our context menu component

Improved reply HTML sanitization even more

Started prompting disabled users to provide socials

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

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

Migrated /v1/bulk_actions to use TypeID

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

Fixed some more edge cases with HTML in the /inbox

Cleaned up the footer for emails we send to premium subscribers

Added a cross-platform date picker

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

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

Improved editor toolbar on mobile

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

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

Cleaned up a whole bunch of Archives docs

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

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

Fixed benign bug in /v1/emails

Started deleting stale ESPSuppressions

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

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

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

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

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

Cleaned up a whole bunch of docs

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

Fixed some broken links in our KYC disablement emails

Completely migrated off of DNSimple in favor of Cloudflare

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

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

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

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

Completely migrated off of DNSimple in favor of Cloudflare

Fixed some broken links in our KYC disablement emails

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

Cleaned up a whole bunch of docs

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

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

Removed redis requirement from demo to cut down on 500s

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fixed bug with validation of gift subscription metadata

Improved performance for in-app search

Improved performance for email event analytics

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

Redesigned callouts to be less visually chaotic

Refactored firewall for improved functionality/productivity

Added initial (janky) support for surveys in the archives

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

Archive searches now respect quotes for exact matching

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

The mobile variant of dialogs now triggers at a narrower viewport

Expanded the TTL for Cleantalk responses from 3 to 30 days

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

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

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

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