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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 month ago in Bolt 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 about 1 month ago in Push integrations 0 Future consideration

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 4 months ago in User customisation 0 Future consideration

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 7 months ago in  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 3 months ago in Content behaviour 1 Future consideration

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 6 months ago in Content interaction 0 Future consideration

Support multiple links on PDF pages

What problem are you facing? Not being able to add multiple links to PDF pages with stacked ads. What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? Ability to control multiple link placements on PDF pages. What impact do you think this will have?...
Todd Jones 6 months ago in Content interaction 0 Future consideration

Adding labels to elements on Bolt Web when hovering

We have quite a few icons on Bolt Web, especially if you have PDF content. Some users have raised that they're not sure what each of them do. Here we'd add labels to each when a user hovers over them with a mouse to highlight what they are and hop...
Benji Weiser 6 months ago in  0 Future consideration

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 6 months ago in Authentication and purchases 0 Future consideration

Track known users who journey from your website to Bolt

In Bolt we support an analytics dimension known as External User ID, which we can track at the moment if it's given to us by your authentication provider. We are looking at ways to track it if an ID is provided separately from your auth. Specifica...
Benji Weiser 7 months ago in  0 Future consideration