Bolt ideas

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Reading progress bar

What problem are you facing? Our articles are very long. During user research, we discovered that our users would like to know how much they have got left to read for their own time management What improvement or new feature are you hoping f...
Francesca Garbarini 1 day ago in Content interaction 0 Future consideration

Add ability in Web to easily navigate back to the timeline from the article

What problem are you facing? Live News Integration / Web no intuitive back button / function What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? Make the timeline menu at the top of the page persist when in a article view and add a back bu...
Jon VanZomeren 18 days ago in Content interaction 0 Planned

In WebView allow article template to fill the screen width

What problem are you facing? User on large screens have unnecessary navigation What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? Our current article styling sets the article into a single column in the middle of the page leaving the majority of ...
Jon VanZomeren about 1 month ago in Content interaction 0 Future consideration

Improve placement of Enhanced PDF thumbnail to not obscure content

What problem are you facing? PDF thumbnail sometimes covers the end of repub article What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? Extra linebreaks at the end of each article What impact do you think this will have? (e.g. improve app usabili...
Guest 6 months ago in Content interaction 1 Planned

We'd like users to be able to open audio player via tab

We'd like to bring the audio player forward - right now it takes too many clicks/taps to get to it. Ideally, we'd like to link/open the audio player from a tab (e.g. bottom nav bar/menu) Our app has high audio engagement. Our users have been engag...
Guest about 2 months ago in Content interaction 0 Planned

Adjusting your text size from within an article

Our current text resize feature allows users to change the text size of content from the app settings page. To review and then possibly change it again they'd need to switch between the article and settings pages. This change would allow users to ...
Benji Weiser over 1 year ago in Content interaction 0 Future consideration

Consider an option to allow continuous scroll reading of an edition in Web.

What problem are you facing? Elderly readers not adapting and complain of to much navigation required What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? Full screen ability to read an entire edition only with the scroll button on the mouse What i...
Jon VanZomeren 5 months ago in Content interaction 0 Future consideration

Optimise app memory when minimised: loading animation every time the app is reopened.

One painful drawback of Bolt is that you can’t minimise the app for a moment without it reloading when you go back. Typically I would start reading an article in the magazine, jump back to WhatsApp to reply to a message or check Google Maps, or so...
Fabian 12 months ago in Content behaviour 2 Future consideration

Show page numbers in the native apps

What problem are you facing? For readers in the native apps present page numbers to give them a visual clue of when they have reached the end of the edition. What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? In web we show them what page they ar...
Jon VanZomeren 6 months ago in Content interaction 0 Future consideration

Logo on web storefront to small

What problem are you facing? Bolt is using a single logo for both native and web. In Web this presents to small and feels underweighted on the page. What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? Allow a second larger Logo to be used on web s...
Jon VanZomeren 6 months ago in Content promotion 0 Coming soon