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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 adds side-by-side email comparison bars and background patterns for its Modern theme.

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◆Current state
Buttondown is a newsletter platform shipping small daily batches. After five fix-only days in early November, the 6 November batch improved LaTeX, tweet and Mermaid rendering. November 7 added background patterns for the Modern theme, and November 9 redesigned email comparison with one bar per email for each metric.
◆Where it's heading
Buttondown is spending this stretch on presentation, both in what readers see and in how writers read their stats. The work is incremental and arrives in single-item batches.
◆Prediction
Expect more analytics and theme refinements in small daily drops. The entries don't point to a larger launch.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Email comparison shows one bar per email for each metric

    Side-by-side email comparison now draws a bar per email for every metric. A readability change to analytics after a week of rendering work.

  2. 3d ago

    Modern theme adds background patterns

    The Modern theme can show background patterns such as chevrons, polka dots and graph paper. A cosmetic option for archive pages.

  3. 4d ago

    Better LaTeX, tweet embeds and faster Mermaid in emails

    After five fix-only days, this batch improves how technical content renders in email: LaTeX equations fit phone screens and carry alt text, aligned blocks stop coming out blank, old tweets become real embeds and Mermaid diagrams render faster with a new look. Small, but it targets writers who send math and diagrams.

  4. 5d ago

    Fixes plus signs breaking custom redirect URLs

    A single fix: a plus sign in custom redirect URLs no longer turns into a space in sent emails. November's fifth straight fix-only batch.

  5. 6d ago

    Fixes naked-mode welcome emails and fancy-mode formatting

    Four fixes: naked mode for welcome emails and its API field, double opt-in wording on embedded forms, and two fancy-mode formatting bugs around emoji and bold-italic text. Another fix-only day in November.

  6. 7d ago

    Buttondown adds low-contrast accent warning and fixes domain records

    A maintenance batch: a warning for low-contrast accent colors, steadier sending-domain records, Nepali punctuation and a coupon race-condition fix. Nothing that changes how newsletters are written or sent.