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Allowing users to have more control over what push notifications they receive

Currently for all push providers, other than Airship, the only option for push is to opt in or opt out. We would like to provide the option to allow users more control over what push notifications they receive via an in-app preference centre. It w...
Benji Weiser 6 months ago in User customisation 0 Coming soon

Refine searches by date

Currently when you search for an article in Bolt, the app looks through the entire search index for your content, meaning the user could see results from last week, or last year. We do currently support the option (with additional configuration) t...
Benji Weiser 6 months ago in Content interaction 0 Planned

Ability to create/edit articles using a block based editor (Gutenberg)

This would allow you to customise your articles within Pugpig Express using a system similar to Wordpress Gutenberg blocks, granting you increased flexibility in terms of article layout.
Harry Phillips 8 months ago in Content management system (CMS) 0 Future consideration

Gate saving or sharing content based on subscriber status

Users with no content access see a lock icon in place of share or save. This would allow you to prevent users with access to content, but without logins, from saving or sharing content. Particular use cases might be if you have a metered paywall, ...
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration

Support for multiple different subscriptions, for different products, at the same time

This would allow you and your users to have multiple different subscriptions available within your app. This is similar to The New York Times, where users can subscribe to games separately from news, or NowTV where users can subscribe separately t...
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration

Limited time discounts for iOS subscribers

iOS Promotional Offers (separate from Introductory Offers) allows you to send limited time discounts to certain users. As stated in the linked Apple documentation, it can be particularly helpful in retaining users whose subscriptions are about to ...
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration

Allow subscriptions in your Android app without going through the Google Play Store

Android User Choice Billing is similar to Apple's External Link Entitlement which we currently support. The idea is to provide you with a different method of getting subscriptions from your app, not using the app store billing systems. Android Use...
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration

Ability to select default tab

This would allow your users to choose their preferred tab to open the app on, from within the app settings page, particularly useful for users who only engage with one type of content. This would overwrite our existing state restoration feature wh...
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in User customisation 0 Planned

Metered paywall expansion - Access for a specific period of time

Our current metered paywall implementation allows you to reset every X weeks or months. This cycle will start from the date you first interact with content regardless of where in the week or month that is. This expansion would allow you to give ac...
Benji Weiser 10 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration

Ability to have timelines and storefronts in the same tab

Currently timelines and editions are separated in separate tabs, timeline tabs or storefront tabs. This would allow you to combine them.
Benji Weiser 10 months ago in Content behaviour 0 Future consideration