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Ability for users to choose whether or not they want to view double page spreads

If you're taking advantage of our double page spread feature for editions, your users will see both pages in a PDF, if on a large enough screen. This is controlled within the CMS so the behaviour is the same for all users. This would allow your us...
Benji Weiser about 1 year ago in Content behaviour / User customisation 0 Coming soon

Gift content to friends and family for free

This is the ability for subscribers to 'gift' content to other users. Contrary to standard sharing, if receiving a gifted article, the recipient would not be blocked by a paywall. The link would only be valid once, and would take away from the sen...
Benji Weiser about 1 year ago in Authentication and purchases / Content interaction 1 Future consideration

Showing users (and you) how many results a search returns

Currently when a user searches for something in the app they'll see a list of results relevant to their search term. Concurrently in your analytics you'll see a search event with an attached dimension of what the user has searched for, but nothing...
Benji Weiser 11 months ago in Content interaction 0 Coming soon

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 11 months ago in User customisation 0 Coming soon

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 12 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 about 1 year 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 about 1 year 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 about 1 year 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 about 1 year 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 about 1 year ago in User customisation 0 Planned