Bolt ideas

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Reading progress bar

What problem are you facing? Our articles are very long. During user research, we discovered that our users would like to know how much they have got left to read for their own time management What improvement or new feature are you hoping f...
Francesca Garbarini 12 days ago in Content interaction 0 Future consideration

In WebView allow article template to fill the screen width

What problem are you facing? User on large screens have unnecessary navigation What improvement or new feature are you hoping for? Our current article styling sets the article into a single column in the middle of the page leaving the majority of ...
Jon VanZomeren about 2 months ago in Content interaction 0 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 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 6 months ago in Content interaction 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 about 1 year 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

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

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 7 months ago in Content behaviour 0 Future consideration

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 8 months ago in In-app content 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 over 1 year ago in Content promotion 0 Future consideration