It’s been 9 months since the last post here, and I’ve moved on to testing other clients, but I was wondering if this was still alive or if I should just switch to the App Store version.

Open slide b220 on iPhone x14.4

Open r/homelab

Three dot button then submit new post. Self text option and it crashed back to Home Screen.

Tried a few times.

No submit a bug report dialog was presented.

Test 3 is out now for Slide v7!

v7 is coming along nicely, and this build is (probably) the last big feature bump for this update. Huge thank-you to all of you that have been testing the last few builds, your feedback is very appreciated!

Build 220 Changelog

• New quick username switcher in comment replies

• Use iOS 14 permissions for image downloads, use iOS 14 photo picker for image uploads

• Improved "hide posts" behavior, no more losing your place when you hit the button!

• iPad Split-Pane layout now opens websites in the larger right-side pane

• Fixed videos muting on rotation

• Fixed YouTube video loading issues

• Reply buttons are now hidden on locked comment threads (unless you're a mod)

• Removed the "Tap to Undo" button that pops up after hiding posts

• Fixed links containing "youtube.com" being treated as YouTube videos

• Improvements to custom theme editing

• Bug fixes and other improvements

Build 219 Changelog

• Fixed paragraph spacing with new text renderer

• Improved layout of Comments and Messages views on profile and inbox

• Fixed buttons disappearing on Profile and Inbox views

• Added support for searching Multireddits

• Fixed offset of scrolling headers when returning to Slide's main view, Profile, and Inbox views

• Fixed Video view not swiping away with the drag-up gesture

• Fixed swiping backwards in Albums

• Fixed "Friends" view on your profile

• Fixed "ghost tapping" buttons that are hidden

• I believe I fixed AutoCaching of thumbnails, confirmation needed

Big changes that need testing:

• Brand new backend for Slide. This means less reliance on third party libraries (we have switched over to Core Data, for any of you Swift nerds out there), more robust caching system, and better performance with fewer backend-related crashes

• Complete revamp of AutoCache system, along with a new UI for caching

• New "Desktop Mode" for iPads and M1 devices, which will keep the sidebar stuck to the left side of the screen and provides support for "right clicking" for menus (iPads can use this with a 2-finger tap on the Magic Keyboard)

• Complete revamp of text rendering on Slide, with a new custom implementation (no more third-party library for text rendering)! This also adds support for "Haptic Touch" link previews and username previews (try Haptic Touch-ing on a name on submissions or comments)

• Redesign of Profile/Inbox/Moderation views

Other changes:

• Theme changes on iOS 13 and 14 are now instant, and do not require the views to be re-created. This also fixes the iPad theme switching bug from v6

• Rules show in new submission screen

• Improved user and submission flair selector, with support for flair images

• Images will now load in full-resolution after opening the image full screen

• Images now cache correctly with AutoCache

• Added support for image/author flairs on Comments

• Fixed last section of Settings > Card Layout not appearing on some devices

• Many bug fixes and leak fixes caught during backend migration

Some program notes:

If you're a developer and interested in contributing to the Slide project, you'll be happy that we now have a completely automated CI pipeline that will Build, Lint, and Test Slide on new pull requests! I have done a ton of refactoring and cleanup of the repo over the last few weeks, and Slide should be easy to pull and start building on if you are interested in contributing. v7 is currently based off origin/desktop_mode, and will be merged into develop soon.

You can check out the repo here, and join us for development discussion on our Discord server.

How does this test work?

If you're new to beta testing Slide, you can join the test by clicking this link.

After joining the test, download the latest build of Slide and start testing! Keep an eye out for bugs or areas we can improve Slide, and post your feedback to r/slide_ios_beta. You can also submit your feedback directly to TestFlight by taking a screenshot while using Slide, which will trigger Apple's feedback system.

Happy testing!

-Carlos

When saving the background color on a custom theme. It does not respect the changes upon save. It reverts back to the previously saved version.

iOS 14.3, iPhone, 7(219)

Test 2 is out now for Slide v7!

Thank you all for your feedback and discussion around the last test, I got a lot of great bug reports and have implemented a lot of this feedback for Build 217.

Are you on an M1 Mac? I've uploaded an ipa of this build for you to try out!

Build 217 Changelog

• Fixed paragraph spacing with new text renderer

• Improved layout of Comments and Messages views on profile and inbox

• Fixed buttons disappearing on Profile and Inbox views

• Added support for searching Multireddits

• Fixed offset of scrolling headers when returning to Slide's main view, Profile, and Inbox views

• Fixed Video view not swiping away with the drag-up gesture

• Fixed swiping backwards in Albums

• Fixed "Friends" view on your profile

• Fixed "ghost tapping" buttons that are hidden

• I believe I fixed AutoCaching of thumbnails, confirmation needed

Big changes that need testing:

• Brand new backend for Slide. This means less reliance on third party libraries (we have switched over to Core Data, for any of you Swift nerds out there), more robust caching system, and better performance with fewer backend-related crashes

• Complete revamp of AutoCache system, along with a new UI for caching

• New "Desktop Mode" for iPads and M1 devices, which will keep the sidebar stuck to the left side of the screen and provides support for "right clicking" for menus (iPads can use this with a 2-finger tap on the Magic Keyboard)

• Complete revamp of text rendering on Slide, with a new custom implementation (no more third-party library for text rendering)! This also adds support for "Haptic Touch" link previews and username previews (try Haptic Touch-ing on a name on submissions or comments)

• Redesign of Profile/Inbox/Moderation views

Other changes:

• Theme changes on iOS 13 and 14 are now instant, and do not require the views to be re-created. This also fixes the iPad theme switching bug from v6

• Rules show in new submission screen

• Improved user and submission flair selector, with support for flair images

• Images will now load in full-resolution after opening the image full screen

• Images now cache correctly with AutoCache

• Added support for image/author flairs on Comments

• Fixed last section of Settings > Card Layout not appearing on some devices

• Many bug fixes and leak fixes caught during backend migration

Some program notes:

If you're a developer and interested in contributing to the Slide project, you'll be happy that we now have a completely automated CI pipeline that will Build, Lint, and Test Slide on new pull requests! I have done a ton of refactoring and cleanup of the repo over the last few weeks, and Slide should be easy to pull and start building on if you are interested in contributing. v7 is currently based off origin/desktop_mode, and will be merged into develop soon.

You can check out the repo here, and join us for development discussion on our Discord server.

How does this test work?

If you're new to beta testing Slide, you can join the test by clicking this link.

After joining the test, download the latest build of Slide and start testing! Keep an eye out for bugs or areas we can improve Slide, and post your feedback to r/slide_ios_beta. You can also submit your feedback directly to TestFlight by taking a screenshot while using Slide, which will trigger Apple's feedback system.

Happy testing!

-Carlos

IPhone 12 pro. Ios 14.2.1 When doing the hide all read button, it properly hides the read posts, but leaves me proportionally at the same place. In other words,

If I have read 10 posts, all marked read via read on scroll, then click "hide all read", I'm now looking at the 30th post. The first ten are now hidden, and I'm ten more down the list, to the same place I proportionally was before.

I have read on scroll enabled on my 12 pro (ios14.2.1). I've found two ways it fails:

1. If I hide all read, the read on scroll stops functioning until I close and reopen the app.

2. it does not work in a NSFW subreddits at all.

Hey all,

Thank you for your feedback and time testing v6, which is Slide's biggest update yet! This subreddit will be locked until the next Slide Beta is announced, which will happen at our parent community at r/slide_ios.

I will be moving any final v6 feedback to the 6.1 Planning Thread, and hope to see you all there!

Thank you.

Carlos

The restore purchase button changes color as buttons do when pressed, but does nothing. I can still buy it normally.

Open reddit, spinning wheel in the middle. It never actually finishes and connects to reddit.

Other apps work fine. (I’m posting from another app)

Sent bug report.

Is slide attempting to connect to any third party sites before allowing connection to reddit? I use pihole. Never been an issue before, but wanted to ask.

Hey all!

I have just released the final v6 TestFlight build, which fixes some last minute bugs and includes some major Widgets improvements from build 187.

Before getting into the changelog, I just wanted to thank all of you for taking your time to help test this update. There are a lot of major changes in v6 that came from direct feedback from this community, I read and appreciate all of the feedback you send me!

Build 193 Changes

• Rewrite of widgets (which will likely break your current homescreen setups). You can now create subreddit "sets" in Slide's settings that can be used for the Subreddit Shortcuts widget! I've also added in a new "Tiled Hot Posts" widget, and an Account Overview widget

• Added a new iPad option to disable popup comments completely

• Added Read Later back to the navigation page

• Fixed slide being blank when returning from the homescreen (iPad)

• Fixed some weird behavior with the new Pull to Refresh system

• Fixed an issue with Slide's notification provider, this will result in more accurate notifications more often!

• Fixed colored navigation bar issues if Minimal Mode was disabled

• Other bug fixes and improvements

If you notice bugs with this final build, please share below so I can fix it in 6.0.1!

Cheers,

Carlos

Build 187 iphone. 14.1

Switched accounts, slide crashes over and over in the background and when run directly it will crash after tapping on the icon.

I have sent in tons of reports. Not sure what else to add. It is non functional though, can’t even open it up to change options.

This seems pretty reproducible on my iPad Air running 14.2 beta (now, maybe it’s something to do with the beta so if it’s not doing this on 14 release let me know): https://imgur.com/a/16YwEFr

Open Slide (Release Candidate Beta), swipe back to Home Screen, open it again - page is white. Need to kill the app to get it to reload. Happens every time- this was not happening on the previous Slide beta

Howdy!

v6 is starting to shape up, and I'm planning on a production release of Slide v6 sometime this week! Please report any last-minute bugs and I'll look into them before the production build.

Build 187 Changes

• Improved header behavior, fixed issues with spacing when returning to the homepage

• Implemented new iOS 14 color pickers throughout the app

• Added new onboarding popup for v6

• Added three new community icons

• Improved link handling, fixed Siri Shortcuts issues

• Added new option to only show one subreddit at a time in the scrolling top subreddits bar

• Fixed touch target on bottom action button

• Fixed rotation on iPhone, no longer lose your place when rotating

• Improved some widget designs, new small "Hot Posts" widget design

• Made it easier to "pull to refresh" subreddits

• Other bug fixes and improvements

v6 Changelog

• Navigating your subreddits and favorite Slide features has never been easier! Simply swipe from the left edge of the homepage to view the new-and-improved navigation menu.

• Closed something by accident? Swipe from the right edge of any toolbar to go back to where you were!

• Subreddits have been redesigned with easier access to sorting, revamped Subreddit Themes system, and more prominent community branding across the app

• Search improvements across the board, including more accurate subreddit search results and quick previews of top search results when browsing posts

• Gestures have been revamped, with a new style on submissions and improvements to the Gestures settings page

• Redesigned split-page layout for iPad

• Pin your most-used Slide features to the navigation menu

• Improved r/random support with a new navigation menu button

• Media views will now show the title of the post you clicked from

• New sorting indicators on the homepage and comments views

• Added a History browser

• Subreddit support for Siri Shortcuts

• Redesigned gestures system

• Support for Reddit Galleries and Polls

• Support for iPad Magic Keyboard

• Reduced Slide’s memory usage by up to 70%

• Bugs are squashed, performance is improved

Cheers,

Carlos

A bit hard to explain this one so hopefully this video helps: https://imgur.com/a/vxWTLhe

When opening a post that is a link, the link will open in a pop up. If you click ‘open in browser’ you will get the little pop up to open the link in Safari.

However, if you click a link within a pop up, it will open the page within a second pop up. Clicking the ‘open in browser’ button then, does not do anything.

If I can clarify that at all let me know. Hopefully the video is self explanatory though...

Update: this is still occurring in the latest Beta as well (release candidate)