Bolt ideas

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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

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

Ability to have timelines and storefronts in the same tab

Currently timelines and editions are separated in separate tabs, timeline tabs or storefront tabs. This would allow you to combine them.
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Content behaviour 0 Future consideration

Show a summary of your latest edition contents on the storefront

This would allow you to promote your latest edition on the storefront tab with a summary of your choice.
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Content promotion 0 Future consideration

Automatically go to your latest edition on app open

This would allow you to configure your app to always open straight into the latest edition, rather than to the app home screen.
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Content behaviour 0 Future consideration

Live activities that update on your lock screen in real-time

You may have seen live activities in apps such as Uber, Bolt and Deliveroo. They appear on your lock screen and update you as something is happening in real time. This could be applicable to; sports results, election results and more.
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Content behaviour / Content interaction 0 Future consideration

Gift content to friends and family for free

This is the ability for subscribers to 'gift' content to other users. Contrary to standard sharing, if receiving a gifted article, the recipient would not be blocked by a paywall. The link would only be valid once, and would take away from the sen...
Benji Weiser 9 months ago in Authentication and purchases / Content interaction 0 Future consideration