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Better signposting for navigation through editions

If you have a PDF download button in your edition it can sometimes be unclear to users that they are able to scroll past it and that there is more than just an option to download a PDF version. We're thinking of ways to make this more obvious. Cur...
Benji Weiser over 1 year ago in  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 11 months ago in Bolt 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

Push notifications to deeplink to a specific article in unmanaged webview

We're setting our app up to work with an unmanaged webview tab, meaning that the user is simply viewing our web app in webview within the app, while obviously enjoying the perks of having all this wrapped in an app: app installed to homescreen, pu...
Toni Kivinen 11 months ago in Push integrations 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

Increase the size of images in the scrubber

What problem are you facing? Readers unable to view images of pages / articles in scrubber What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? All publisher to select size of these images. What impact do you think this will have? (e.g. improve app...
Jon VanZomeren 6 months ago in Content interaction 0 Future consideration

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 6 months ago in Content interaction 0 Planned