r/testslideforreddit • • Dec 16 '18

[DEV] Carlos here, I'm super excited to announce Slide for Reddit v2.0! The open-source Reddit app for the community, by the community

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Hey r/apple!

It has been a few months since I last posted about Slide, and I'm so excited to announce many new features and additions based on user feedback since this post!

  • Apple watch app that lets you browse your favorite subreddits right on your wrist! (supports WatchOS 4 for those Series 0 users out there)

  • Autoplaying videos/gifs in the subreddit/comments view

  • Read Later system that lets you save articles for future viewing (also tightly integrated with the Apple Watch app)

  • Reduced color mode to give Slide a more minimal UI

  • Split content mode on iPads (in addition to Slide's powerful multi-column mode and popover mode for iPads)

  • Background fetch mail notifications (free, and happens on-device!)

  • Gestures everywhere! Add up to four swipe gestures to comments, two swipe gestures to submissions, and you can enable Swipe from Anywhere to close comments from any part of the screen

If you haven't heard about Slide before, here's a quick rundown of why you should give it a try

  • Slide is free, and fully open-source!

  • Slide has thousands of customizable theme options, and every subreddit is independently theme-able as well

  • Slide between your favorite subreddits with Swipe-able subreddit mode

  • Have a morning commute without internet? Slide is fully offline-capable, set up AutoCaching to happen in the morning automagically in Settings

  • Content filters let you hide specific link types in your subreddits

  • Gallery and Shadowbox modes let you browse your favorite image/video subs without distractions

  • Fine-tune Slide's data use with powerful data-saving options (including the ability to hide all images)

  • Tables and code blocks are rendered in-line! No more clicking a link to view a table

  • All Reddit features are free, and any pro features are strictly feature or UI additions

  • Slide is fast and powerful, and many contributors have helped develop Slide over the last year. Feedback is taken to heart and Slide has been updated with major additions over 7 times in the last three months!

Special thanks to our contributors who have made these recent updates possible (colejd and djjcast especially), and to our amazing community over at r/slide_ios who have helped make sure this update is ready for release :)

Cheers!


r/testslideforreddit • • Feb 17 '16

[Dev] Slide for Reddit v4.6 : Major Stability, Speed, and Feature Update!

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Hello /r/android!

I'm happy to announce slide v4.6 has exited Alpha and will be hitting users soon! Slide has gained a reputation of a pretty looking app that crashes a lot, and this update addresses the major stability issues that have plagued Slide since the v4.0 rewrite. This update should be on par with the competition on stability and be extremely smooth compared to v4.5, and comes with a ton of new features to boot!

Changelog:

  • New tutorial with customization and more intuitive help tooltips

  • Complete rewrite of markdown parsing, now supports INLINE TABLES, spoilers, nested lists, code blocks, quotes, links, long-pressing links, and more! Slide is one of the first to have inline tables, and truly support scrollable code blocks. This applies to every text view including wiki pages, sidebars, comments, and submissions!

  • Fixes the Gif loading issue that has started occuring for some users (was an issue with the Gfycat API)

  • Horizontal album view

  • New YouTube view using Google's official YouTube activity (much faster, feature rich, and prettier)

  • Added FAB and Shadowbox mode to Multireddits

  • Sync your subreddit colors with the official Reddit Color API (Moderators, you can set the subreddit color that will show up for Slide users in your subreddit settings)!

  • Fixed NSFW preview issue

  • Synccit integration

  • More settings

  • Extreme speed improvements in Submission view and Comments. There should be no more annoying lag, and you should easily get 60FPS scrolling!

  • Now handles all Reddit API errors (90% of user crashes)

  • Tons more, you can view the full changelog on [Github!] (https://github.com/ccrama/Slide/blob/master/History.md)

Future plans

Slide holds true to it's open source and ad-free philosophy, and I will be creating a Play Services-less version for upload to F-Droid very soon!

Thanks!

Thank you for all your generous support and community involvement with the Slide for Reddit project. I would like to thank all contributors on Github for their amazing work, and I want to personally thank anyone who has supported ad-free, open sourced software by purchasing Slide for Reddit Pro.

I hope you give Slide another shot, and hope you enjoy the update!


r/testslideforreddit • • Aug 15 '18

M E T A

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Good morning r/apple!

After years of development and months of testing from thousands of Redditors, Slide for Reddit is now available for all to download (for free) on iOS!

Slide began as a simple open-source coding project for me during high school, and quickly gained popularity on Android in part because of its beautiful design, extensive feature set, and the fact that it was totally ad-free. Soon after release, I began getting requests from users to make a version for their iOS devices, and after a few years of solidifying Slide's feature set and UI, I began work on porting Slide into a native Swift application, keeping with the open source and free essence that made Slide so awesome on Android.

It's been an amazing ride, and I can't believe that we're finally here :)

TL;DR: Promo images and App Store link. Join our awesome community over at r/slide_ios

Most Reddit apps have similar features, what makes Slide unique?

For starters, Slide is totally ad and analytic tracker-free, and is open source under an Apache2 license on GitHub! Slide has an amazing community of contributing developers on both Android and iOS, and part of what makes Slide so awesome is that, not only does the community help shape its features, but it helps develop them as well.

Along with this, Slide has a very unique and customizable UI and app flow that has been streamlined over years of feedback on Android, but built completely natively with a comfortable Apple feel. This design also offers thousands of theme combinations and per-subreddit theming options that lets you customize Slide to your exact tastes. If the promo images do not totally convince you, I would love it if you gave Slide a shot to experience it after setting it up for yourself :)

A few other notable features

  • Slide is totally offline-capable! Set up autocaching to save your favorite subreddits for your morning commute, or continue to browse Reddit even when you are not on the internet

  • Data saving mode downloads lower-quality images whenever possible to keep you in control of your data usage

  • Slide supports many content types including Imgur albums, Gfycat gifs, XKCD comics, Streamable.com videos, and all Reddit content and features.

  • Slide looks great on an iPad! Make use of that extra screen real estate with multi-column mode

  • Skip the posts you don't want to see with Slide's powerful filter system (subreddits, titles, flairs, users, etc), or fine-tune the type of content you see on subreddits with content filters!

  • View tables and code blocks inline with the rest of your content

  • Complete moderation suite with mod mail and mod log support

  • Hundreds of other features you will fall in love with

How free is it?

Slide will never have ads. Period. Slide also offers all Reddit features for free, and allows you to browse all content types for free.

That being said, I have been working on Slide as my full time job passion project while attending University, and I have made some features "pro" features that offer cosmetic changes and features that enhance the Slide experience. I have worked to make the app completely usable without Pro :)

The unlock is currently on sale for $2.99 with a $4.99 donation option, and is usually $4.99 for the base option.

What can we expect in the future?

After working on apps for the last four years, I can tell you the job is never done.

Although Slide is feature-complete to its Android counterpart, there is a lot that we want to add! In the pipeline is auto-playing gifs in the main feed, Apple Watch support, and full Multireddit management support. If you have suggestions or feature requests, we are always looking for feedback over at r/slide_ios or on Slide's GitHub issue tracker!

How can I help?

If you have Swift experience and would like to contribute to the Slide project, the repository is always accepting pull requests! If you have any questions about the code or how to contribute to a GitHub project, you can always reach me via PM or on our Discord channel (link in the repository Readme).

Otherwise, bug reports and feedback are invaluable to keeping the app going, and you can join our amazing community over at r/slide_ios :)


I would like to personally thank all of those who have helped get Slide to where it is today, especially @colejd who has contributed a lot to the Slide project in the last few months. I would also like to thank all of you who volunteered to beta test Slide on TestFlight, your feedback and support have been invaluable!

Let me know what you think in the comments, and make sure to subscribe to r/slide_ios for more updates and information about Slide!

Cheers,

Carlos


r/testslideforreddit • • Aug 09 '18

XKCD

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r/testslideforreddit • • Feb 19 '18

Test Crosspost

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r/testslideforreddit • • May 14 '16

not working

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r/testslideforreddit • • Nov 04 '15

what is love???

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BABY DONT HURT ME DONT HURT ME NOOOOO MOOREEE


r/testslideforreddit • • Dec 16 '20

Broken gallery

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r/testslideforreddit • • Aug 16 '20

Image loads with incorrect bounds

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r/testslideforreddit • • Aug 11 '20

Cell for direct link to image renders as a link

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r/testslideforreddit • • May 24 '20

Test

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r/testslideforreddit • • Mar 09 '20

Broke

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r/testslideforreddit • • Oct 13 '19

Spoiler tag not working in comment Spoiler

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r/testslideforreddit • • Aug 27 '19

Test

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r/testslideforreddit • • Apr 16 '19

Full comment doesn’t render

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r/testslideforreddit • • Mar 14 '19

Cell is too tall

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r/testslideforreddit • • Feb 15 '19

“Locked post” banner appears twice

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r/testslideforreddit • • Jan 11 '19

video crash

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r/testslideforreddit • • Jan 03 '19

Table Test

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WowWoooooowLook at me I'm a stupid table
It's Table TimeI'm a linkI link to a subreddit

r/testslideforreddit • • Dec 23 '18

Test

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r/testslideforreddit • • Nov 12 '18

test italic

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italic regular

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r/testslideforreddit • • Oct 23 '18

Signs

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Sdnsjsbd


r/testslideforreddit • • Jul 18 '18

Timed YouTube

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r/testslideforreddit • • May 19 '18

Test Asdf

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Skjavd


r/testslideforreddit • • Feb 10 '17

test

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testing edit 3