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Sync Saved Articles across devices by user account

What problem are you facing? Users expect their Saved Articles to sync across multiple devices, e.g. on their iPhone app and their iPad app, and have provided feedback requesting this feature What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? Sav...
Guest over 1 year ago in User customisation 1 Future consideration

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 4 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

Indication of editions deleted upon tapping 'Delete all downloaded editions' in Settings

What problem are you facing? No indication when user taps 'delete all downloaded editions' via settings What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? Some good indication that the action happened i.e a message like ' X Editions Deleted' or e...
Guest about 1 year ago in Bolt 0 Planned

Display promotional text and imagery on your Storefront

Currently in the app you have the ability to present information to users using; onboarding screens, in-app messaging (through your push provider) and via your content. Storefront marketing messaging would be an additional way, where if you have a...
Benji Weiser over 1 year ago in Content promotion 0 Planned

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 about 1 year ago in Content behaviour 2 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 8 months ago in Content interaction 0 Future consideration

Create a login page that allows for multiple login add-ons

It would be helpful for us to have a way to add multiple login add-ons on the login page in the app. For example, for staff or institutional login (e.g. OpenAthens online library access.) What problem are you facing? What improvement or new featur...
Guest 8 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 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 9 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 9 months ago in Content promotion 0 Coming soon