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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

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 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 6 months ago in Content interaction 0 Future consideration

1.25 Audio Play Speed Option

What problem are you facing? Poor App Store Ratings & Reviews due to improvements needed to audio play speed options. What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? Users share feedback that having a speed option in the audio player that ...
Guest 4 months ago in Content interaction 0 Planned

Remember how far a user has progressed through an article

This may be particularly beneficial to those with long form content, that users are likely to need more than one session to finish. Currently if a user exits an article (either to go elsewhere in the app or to close the app) when they next return ...
Benji Weiser 8 months ago in Content behaviour 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 9 months ago in Content promotion 0 Planned

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

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 9 months ago in Content interaction / User customisation 0 Planned

Highlight how far a user has progressed through an edition

Similar to remembering a users position within an article, this would remember a user's position within an edition's table of contents and highlight it for them so they know how far through the edition they were in their last session.
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Content behaviour 0 Planned

Ability for users to choose whether or not they want to view double page spreads

If you're taking advantage of our double page spread feature for editions, your users will see both pages in a PDF, if on a large enough screen. This is controlled within the CMS so the behaviour is the same for all users. This would allow your us...
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Content behaviour / User customisation 0 Coming soon