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Bug: Instant Chat Bar bugs on 3.1

Mac OS Tahoe, Bolt 3.1

Ok, so v3 brings lots of great features, so I don’t want to moan. But it has totally broken my most common daily workflow, which is: Pull up the instant chat bar by shortcut, ask a question, minimize many times to view other windows, then eventually kill the instant chat bar once done.

Problems with v3:

  • There is no way that I can find (either by shortcut, or even by cursor) of hiding the instant chat bar in a way that brings it back, chat included. Previously hitting the instant chat bar shortcut did this. Now the only options are Command+H or Command+W: neither work the same way.

  • Taking the best available option and killing instant chat bar chats with Command+W leaves zombie “BoltAI Web Content” processes (in my case literally dozens during a day) of 200mb to 300mb each.

  • You can’t resize the instant chat bar to be smaller; indeed trying to do so actually makes it bigger.

  • The file picker from the instant chat bar never works at selecting a file the first time you try it; you always have to back out and try again.

I don’t object in principle to the merging of the instant chat bar and the pop-out chat window, but please don’t lose key functionality while doing so!

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  • Daniel Nguyen

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    Nov 14

    Thanks. This was to fix the UX issues with the earlier design. But it indeed seems to bring another set of problems. I will work on this soon.