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Icons in web are not intuitive / to small

What problem are you facing? our largely older reader base does not find the icons easy to use. What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? All publisher to select own icon set and control icon size on storefront. What impact do you think ...
Jon VanZomeren 5 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 about 1 year ago in Content interaction 0 Future consideration

Native App Views of Front Page improved Presentation

What problem are you facing? App Defaults to Dual Page View on Native however this makes the front page when using landscape display strangely What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? Center display for page 1 / default single page view...
Jon VanZomeren 5 months ago in Content behaviour 0 Future consideration

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

View downloaded Editions

What problem are you facing? If you download an edition and it later falls out of the storefront due to time elapsing, you cannot view or delete that specific edition. What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? Offer a section / tab where...
Guest 6 months ago in In-app content 0 Future consideration

Video cards that can support tiktok in the field type

What problem are you facing? Our learning colleagues and some social influencers regularly produce short videos on Tiktok - it would be great if we could use these in video cards much like we do for YT videos. What improvement or new feature are y...
Guest about 1 year ago in Content interaction 0 Planned

Follow your favourite topics and authors

We currently support the ability to tap on an author or topic and be taken to a timeline of content featuring just that author or topic. This expansion to that feature would allow users to save those dynamically generated timelines so that they're...
Benji Weiser over 1 year ago in Content interaction / User customisation 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 11 months ago in Content behaviour 1 Future consideration

Improved styling on author and section timelines

If you're using our dynamic timelines feature, when a user taps on an author or section in an article they're taken to a dynamically generated timeline containing content from that author or section. Currently this displays a list of articles, as ...
Benji Weiser about 1 year ago in Content interaction 0 Planned

Metered paywall expansion - Registration

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 the ability to...
Harry Phillips about 1 year ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration