Welcome to our new Pitt app!
Or Penn State app! Or another school! Or scores!
For the first time since we've been offering apps, the bottom bar on the home page can be customized. Meaning that, beyond the permanent home button on the left, the other five buttons -- and yeah, we've also expanded to a total of six -- can be whatever you want.
The choices:
• Steelers
• Penguins
• Pirates
• Pitt
• Penn State
• Duquesne
• Robert Morris
• NFL scores
• NHL scores
• MLB scores
Rotate them in and out based on preference, based on the season at hand ... whatever. And I should point out that Podcasts remain an option for this bar, but we've additionally carved out a special new button for those in the top bar, right next to the main menu icon.
We wanted to have these ready in time for college football and, sure enough, it went live the day before Pitt and Penn State both opened their respective seasons Thursday. It's a custom project commissioned through Adam Bertram and our BoomPress developers, so it's not something that'll be found anywhere else. (At least not that I'm aware.)
The instructions couldn't be simpler. Go to your profile page -- that's your icon on the top left of the app/site -- thumb down to find 'Customize app,' then tap 'Edit.' From there, make the choices until there are six total, then tap DONE at the bottom. That's it!
Readers have asked for colleges to be part of the bottom bar in some form or another for a while, but we weren't going to push that until we were confident that we'd have the coverage to match. We've got that now, as everyone's hopefully seen, with Corey Crisan on Pitt, Cory Giger on Penn State.
Let us know what you think!
