SOLUTION: Alright.. I think I’ve stumbled across a solution folks, which is awesome since this thread hasn’t garnished any attention from HubSpot yet. Give this a try and let me know if it solves everyone’s shareable link problems. I’ve tested it with an incognito browser and it doesn’t appear to need a HubSpot login to view the email. And, when you make changes to the draft and click save, a simple refresh of the tab shows the changes, just as the old preview links did.
- Open up the email you’d like to create a preview link for
- Go to Settings
- Click the dropdown labeled “Plain text and web version”
- Hit the toggle to turn the web version on
- Now, you can’t use the “copy link” button for the “Page URL” as that link doesn’t go live until you send the email. However, click “Sharable Preview” to open a preview in a new tab or click “Preview” like you used to and copy the link.
The login requirement seems to be only required for the “temporary slug” URL that HubSpot uses when the email does not contain a link to the web version. So, when you toggle the web version on, you can bypass the login screen and share with non-HubSpot users. Only downside is that a “View in Browser” link gets added to the top of you email design, but you can move that column/module to the bottom of the email.
Let me know if this works universally! Hopefully this is the solution/hack that will work until HubSpot puts a more user-friendly fix back in.