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Buttondown

MKT AUTO
Velocity5.0

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

buttondown.com ↗

A near-daily fix stream, with flexible monthly RSS scheduling the only real addition.

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◆Current state
Buttondown publishes a dated entry almost every day, and the overwhelming majority are single bug fixes, several credited by name to the subscriber who reported them. The current window is nine-tenths repair work — stretched newsletter icons in the archive, a portal 403 for subscribers with many accounts, rejected WebP uploads, cursor placement between stacked tables. Two genuine features sit at the window's edges: filtered blocks on July 31 and flexible monthly RSS scheduling on August 1. Every entry is titled with its date alone, so the titles carry no signal until rewritten.
◆Where it's heading
The shape here is a maintained product rather than one under redirection: the fix stream is dense, specific and largely user-reported, which reads as a small team with an engaged base rather than as instability. The features that do land are narrow gap-fillers — letting a monthly send fall on the 29th, making one section of an email visible to a single audience type — each closing a limitation someone actually hit. Filtered blocks are the only recent change that adds a primitive instead of a setting, since audience-scoped sections are where segmentation inside a single send begins.
◆Prediction
The likeliest next step is more surface built on filtered blocks, as audience-scoped content is the one recent addition with somewhere further to go. Otherwise the daily fix cadence should simply continue; nothing in this window points to a larger change.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Fix: non-square newsletter icons stretched in archive navbar

    A single cosmetic fix for non-square newsletter icons stretching in the archive navbar, following the same fix for archive pages the day before. Representative of the daily repair cadence.

  2. 2d ago

    Four fixes: portal 403s, WebP uploads, clearer resubscribe errors

    Four fixes in one day: stretched icons, a portal 403 for subscribers with many accounts, wrongly rejected WebP uploads, and a clear 400 where the API previously failed silently on an impossible resubscribe. Ordinary maintenance, though the error-handling change is the kind that saves an integrator real time.

  3. 3d ago

    Fix: cursor placement between stacked tables in the editor

    An editor fix for placing the cursor between two stacked tables. Small, user-visible, and typical of the reported-then-repaired loop this feed documents.

  4. 4d ago

    Fix: unsaved-changes bar covering sending-domain add-on

    A layout fix moving the unsaved-changes bar off the sending-domain add-on it was covering. Interface housekeeping with no functional change.

  5. 5d ago

    Fix: cross-posting automations posting the literal word None

    A fix for cross-posting automations emitting the literal string "None" when no post message was written. A visible defect, but a defect rather than a direction.

  6. 7d ago

    Monthly RSS-to-email sends can land on any day of the month

    Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now be scheduled on any day, with short months falling back to their last day. It is the clearest example of the gap-filling pattern in this window: a scheduling constraint removed rather than a capability added.