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Buttondown

MKT AUTO
Velocity5.0

Email newsletter platform for writers and creators with automations, analytics, and subscriber management

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Buttondown ships almost daily, and most of it is someone else's bug report closed.

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◆Current state
The changelog is a near-daily log of two to four items, overwhelmingly fixes, many crediting the customer who reported them by name. The editor accounts for a disproportionate share — pasted Word documents locking it, cursors that would not sit between stacked tables, blank lines above tables that could not be deleted. Feature work is smaller and steadier: multi-select subscribe form fields, a searchable font specimen panel, Bluesky link cards that re-sync themselves.
◆Where it's heading
The pattern is a small team working a public queue in the open, and the fixes cluster where newsletter software actually breaks: rich-text editing, subscriber state transitions, and cross-posting to social platforms. Several recent items concern silent failures specifically — automations skipping sends without saying so, cross-posts marked failed after publishing, resubscribes quietly changing subscriber state. Correcting quiet-wrong behaviour into loud-correct behaviour is the through-line, and it matters more in a product where a mistake reaches someone's whole list.
◆Prediction
Expect the cadence to hold and the editor to keep generating items, since that is where the reported bugs concentrate. The entries are day-stamped batches, so individual releases carry no version or theme to read direction from.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Multi-select signup fields and self-syncing Bluesky cards

    Subscribe forms gain multi-select fields, with values editable as pills in subscriber metadata, and Bluesky link cards re-sync automatically when a newsletter's name, description, icon or theme changes. Both remove a manual step — one for the subscriber answering, one for the writer who would otherwise click Sync now.

  2. 2d ago

    Silent automation skips fixed; re-adding unsubscribers keeps them pending

    Automations no longer skip sends silently when an audience resolves to nobody, archive imports that are really subscriber imports get detected, and re-adding an unsubscribed address as unactivated now keeps them pending rather than quietly resubscribing them. Three variations on the same principle: stop failing quietly.

  3. 5d ago

    Faster draft sends; Word paste no longer locks the editor

    Draft sends from the editor land faster, and pasting from Word no longer locks the editor with a parsing error. The Word paste path is a recurring source of reports, since it is how many writers actually draft.

  4. 6d ago

    Blank line above a table can be deleted

    A single editor fix restoring the ability to delete a blank line above a table. One item, one day — the smallest unit this changelog publishes.

  5. 8d ago

    Font picker becomes a searchable specimen panel

    The archive font picker becomes a searchable specimen panel showing typefaces before selection, and LinkedIn cross-posts stop being marked failed after publishing successfully. The false-failure fix belongs to the same quiet-wrongness cleanup running through the window.

  6. 12d ago

    Non-square icons no longer stretch in the archive navbar

    Non-square newsletter icons stop being stretched in the archive navbar, finishing a fix started the day before for archive pages. Cosmetic, and a good example of the one-line entries that fill this feed.