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How we're evolving the archives in 2026.
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2026: Archives

How we're evolving the archives in 2026

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December 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM

Buttondown

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Igor’s weekly newsletter informs Berlin’s expats of important tech business news, job opportunities, and professional resources in and around Berlin.
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How Igor Ranc built Berlin's largest English-language tech newsletter

Igor’s weekly newsletter informs Berlin’s expats of important tech business news, job opportunities, and professional resources in and around Berlin.

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December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM

Buttondown

@buttondown.com

Igor’s weekly newsletter informs Berlin’s expats of important tech business news, job opportunities, and professional resources in and around Berlin.
buttondown.com/blog/igor-ranc

How Igor Ranc built Berlin's largest English-language tech newsletter

Igor’s weekly newsletter informs Berlin’s expats of important tech business news, job opportunities, and professional resources in and around Berlin.

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December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM

Buttondown

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See ya, November! 🦃 🍂
This month was filled with updates:
- Custom icons
- DNS management
- Notification inbox
- Preview emails as specific subscribers
Template change history
+ more!
Check out all the November product updates.
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Buttondown Blog

Buttondown's engineers, writers, and biggest fans write about the whole thing: engineering challenges, useful tips and tricks, new features, and more.

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November 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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Happy Small Business Saturday!
Today, we're highlighting Buttondown authors. Check out their books on @bookshop.org or at your local bookstore to support small businesses.💙 📚
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Buttondown books

Bookshop.org Custom Wishlist

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November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM

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Making social networking more like email.
https://buttondown.com/blog/what-is-activitypub

What the hell is ActivityPub?

Making social networking more like email.

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November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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We've enabled a strict Content Security Policy on all newsletter archives to improve the security posture for all users.
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Content Security Policy in archives

A stricter CSP to make your subscribers' experience safer.

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November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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No more spending time creating fake test subscribers.
https://buttondown.com/blog/changelog-subscriber-preview

Preview emails as specific subscribers

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November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM

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Hey gang, heads up that most of our team will be out of the office for the Thanksgiving holiday (11/27 & 11/28)! Forgive us if we're a bit slow with support requests–we'll get back to you first thing Monday morning.

November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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Justin Duke

@jmduke.com

one of my goals this year has been to open source more of buttondown's internal sawdust. a little bit under the wire, but this is the first of a few end-of-year goodies

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Buttondown @buttondown.com · 7d

We're excited to announce that Sniperl.ink is now open source!
https://buttondown.com/blog/sniper-link-open-source

Sniperl.ink is now open source

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November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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We're excited to announce that Sniperl.ink is now open source!
https://buttondown.com/blog/sniper-link-open-source

Sniperl.ink is now open source

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November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM

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Fellow fans of RSS readers, this one is for you.
https://buttondown.com/changelog/2025-11-22-auto-activating-rss-reader-subscriptions

Auto-activating RSS reader subscriptions

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November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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We've added a life-saving update–template change history!
Now you can view every revision and when it happened with a single click. Try it out and let us know what you think!
https://buttondown.com/blog/template-history

Template change history

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November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM

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Exciting for those of you offering paid subscriptions–your subscribers can now purchase gift subscriptions directly from your subscription page!🥳🎁
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025-11-19

Gift subscriptions directly from your subscribe page

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November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM

Buttondown

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Making social networking more like email.
https://buttondown.com/blog/what-is-activitypub

What the hell is ActivityPub?

Making social networking more like email.

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November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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steph m.

@stephmoney.bsky.social

Not to pick faves, but this is one of the updates I'm most excited about!

Hoping everyone gets the gift of great writing this year 💙🎁

Buttondown @buttondown.com · 12d

Exciting for those of you offering paid subscriptions–your subscribers can now purchase gift subscriptions directly from your subscription page!🥳🎁
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025-11-19

Gift subscriptions directly from your subscribe page

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November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Buttondown

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Exciting for those of you offering paid subscriptions–your subscribers can now purchase gift subscriptions directly from your subscription page!🥳🎁
https://buttondown.com/blog/2025-11-19

Gift subscriptions directly from your subscribe page

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November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM

Buttondown

@buttondown.com

We've added a life-saving update–template change history!
Now you can view every revision and when it happened with a single click. Try it out and let us know what you think!
https://buttondown.com/blog/template-history

Template change history

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November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM

Buttondown

@buttondown.com

No more spending time creating fake test subscribers.
https://buttondown.com/blog/changelog-subscriber-preview

Preview emails as specific subscribers

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November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM

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Our public postmortem for the incident on November 6th, 2025.
https://buttondown.com/blog/incident-0022

Public postmortem: API availability issues

Our public postmortem for the incident on November 6th, 2025.

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November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM

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Our open source funding in 2025.
https://buttondown.com/blog/oss-pledge-2025

Open source funding in 2025

(Still) investing in the software that makes Buttondown possible

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November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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@octopusthink.bsky.social creators, Sarah and Matt, use Buttondown to connect with customers, share updates about their apps, and other projects they are working on. 🐙
https://buttondown.com/blog/octopus-think

How Octopus Think uses Buttondown

Octopus Think creators, Sarah and Matt, use Buttondown to connect with customers, share updates about their apps, and other projects they are working on.

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November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM

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Buttondown

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Voilà! Now you can embed your favorite analytics on your homepage with a simple click.
https://buttondown.com/blog/embedded-analytics

Analytics on /home

Embed your favorite analytics on your homepage

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November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM

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Justin Duke

@jmduke.com

somehow this didn't make the cut but @kierongillen.bsky.social also was patient enough to put up with me asking questions about the difference between docx and odt on a support thread recently

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Buttondown @buttondown.com · 19d

Comic artist and writer, @kierongillen.bsky.social, uses his newsletter to share his comics, musings, and life experiences.
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