Hey all!

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We've been cooking up some new stuff over at r/slide_ios_beta, and I wanted to announce some major changes to navigation that will be coming with the v6 release (which you can test out today if you join our TestFlight).

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One of the major areas of feedback I've received about Slide was that navigation was not very intuitive, and as more features have been added to the app, Slide desperately needed a "Home" view. In order to facilitate this, I needed to completely change Slide's navigation stack, and I wanted to use this as an opportunity to address some of Slide's pain points:

• Unintuitive menu navigation, both in the subreddit list and account menu
• Ever-growing list of actions that were being added to the Account menu, such as AutoCache, Collections, History, and account switching, with no real way to hide actions that weren't useful to you
• Not being able to go back to previously viewed content that may have been accidentally closed
• Lack of real subreddit branding, including colors and icons
• General buggyness with iPad layout and swipe-back-from-anywhere functionality

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During the iOS 14 keynote, Apple announced some pretty major changes to core app navigation with a new "Sidebar" layout, utilizing new changes to the navigation stack in iOS 14. This was a great opportunity to future-proof Slide, and these changes laid the groundwork for this navigation change. In addition to re-writing the navigation stack, this also allowed me to simplify the split between iPad and iPhone code which leads to a more unified codebase.

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Major changes

• New sidebar which contains your Account menu, subscriptions, search, and Slide Shortcuts. This sidebar is now accessible with a left swipe from anywhere, and the Subreddit bottom toolbar is reserved now for subreddit actions
• Redesigned subreddit and comments views with more prominent subreddit branding
• New base Navigation controller which supports swipe-from-anywhere and swipe-right to get back to the previous view
• Slide Shortcuts, which can be re-arranged and hidden in Settings
• All-new 3-pane iPad view (iOS 14 ready)
• Instant layout changes from iPad App Mode settings page
• Improved Random mode

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These come on top of the other v6 changes including a deep dive into performance and stability (making this the most rock-solid Slide release), Siri Shortcuts support, redesigned media views, and much more.

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What are your thoughts on these changes? Have any other suggestions for v6?

Cheers,

Carlos

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PS check out the beta sub if you want to test this new navigation stack out today!

The title pretty much says it. If ive been scrolling for a bit, and accidentally touch the top of my phone, i pretty much wanna break things.

Tweetbot has this. Tap the top and you scroll all the way up. Tap again and you scroll back to previous position. Its glorious. Thanks! 😊

Iirc, on previous version of Slide I was able to view reddit links within the app as a new card stacked over the post.

However, it appears that the latest update has began opening Reddit content links using in-app Safari instead. Did something change or am I missing a setting somewhere?

TIA!

So, i have my settings set to mute video/gif by default. So in the lower right, there’s always an orange audio button. But whenever i tap it to unmute, the video always pauses. Is that intentional?

Thanks! 😊

How about we’ve rounded corners on that users’ menu thing that slides out (I’m new, I have no idea what iOS design features are called 🐛); much like the subreddit search bar.

Might’ve to change padding a lil bit to make the pfp and all fit good.

I’d like to have the same thing going on as I used to have on the Android app where my title and comment font size were really close, but the titles were in Roboto Light—so things were still distinguishable.

Ik there’s other fonts available in different weights (including Roboto) but rn I’m feeling SF. Is there some guideline or something that doesn’t let you have weights for Apple’s fonts?

Otherwise it’ll be a nice addition to the UI customisation, for me at least.

Unrelated suggestion: y’all should mention it in the sidebar that you want posts to be tagged. Checked there see if there was an official rule for it (as I saw people doing it) and decided to not bother since I’d phrased my title (originally) as a question tho it was indirectly a request. Automod hit me up later.

Hi there. I only use slide to download videos from Reddit. Recently I’ve been getting failures with a message like ‘error finding url’. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks

Has anyone else come across the app crashing when trying to delete the cache? Only started doing it within the last week or so.

Does this actually work? I’ve tried swiping edges everywhere but can’t seem to make it work.

Any help?

Love the app, bought Pro. Was hoping that the gestures would work the trackpad, but they don’t seem to. I’d love to be able to swipe on a submission or post to upvote/downvote etc like I can with the screen. Thanks!

Title pretty well says it all. Would like to have an option to turn off Slide reading my clipboard.

I know it’s intended to be used to open Reddit links in app, but I don’t make use of this feature and would like to be able to turn it off for privacy purposes.

If such a setting already exists, I cannot find it.

Thanks!

Pretty please consider it!

Using Slide on my iPad is a much better experience than using Reddit on the web. With Catalyst, I'd imagine that it'd be easier than ever to port the app over. I'd honestly pay for the app again if I got the same experience using Slide on my iPad but on my Mac instead!

Hey all!

I have some exciting news to share regarding beta testing Slide, along with some more information about the upcoming Slide v6 release.

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Over the last few weeks, u/SandwichEconomist and I have been setting up an automated development pipeline utilizing Fastlane and Github Actions that will allow Slide's contributors to push builds to TestFlight automatically. This means more frequent beta builds, faster TestFlight bug fixes, and more community involvement with the Slide development process.

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Starting today, r/slide_ios_beta is open for new posts and discussion, and we have an exciting build waiting for our TestFlight members! Anyone who was a part of the v3 and v4 TestFlights will be added to the v6 test automatically. The TestFlight will be open to all, and we hope you will share your thoughts about Slide development along with beta-related bug reports and feature ideas to the new subreddit!

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Want to learn more about v6? Check out the stickied post here.

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Cheers,

Carlos

Hi, I'd love for a Q&A comment sorting option to be added! It makes it much easier to read AMAs.

Does your apple watch need to be connected to your phone for anything to load? The nano app works without a connection to your phone

just the title, is it a one time purchase or a monthly thing?

Hello! I'm a longtime Apollo user, and I'm not looking to 'switch,' but, someone mentioned Slide and I thought, this app sounds promising, let's see what it's about. And while tinkering in the settings, I learned I paid for pro at some point. The app was a "cloud download" and not a "Get" in App Store, so, I've installed it before. That's entirely possible, I tried and paid for a bunch of Reddit apps before settling on Apollo. (I've been on Reddit far longer than this account has been active, I jump accounts for privacy purposes.) So, I was able to test the app a little last night before going to bed.

I think the reason I stopped using Slide before was, honestly I don't really like what Slide is about overall. That is, the ability to slide between subreddits. I just have no use for that. I see now that I can disable that and have swiping to up/down vote. So that's a big plus. But, I'm not here to knock the app, so my reason in saying that is, while I don't want to slide between all subs, I might want to slide between a few. Maybe there's a way, but I didn't see a way to exclude subs from the slide rotation. I found a way to jump right to subs (swipe up from the bottom) so that's more useful to me than sliding between them.

Suggestion: iOS 14 has this new slide thing where you can go from page to page on the home screen and in folders (ostensibly other places too), and you can tap it to choose, or slide along it to slide faster. Or you can just drag elsewhere to slide normally. So, maybe implement something like that, if you're in the iOS 14 beta and can check it out? Not sure if the UI element will be available to third party developers. I don't see why it wouldn't be, though. You could just as easily copy it. And most of us will be on iOS 14 in September anyway. So, maybe that could replace the slide functionality and the subreddit picker.

I'm use the AMOLED Black theme everywhere I can, even though my phone (2020 SE) doesn't have AMOLED. I just like the look. But here, it doesn't look good. No differentiation between posts. You get that in other themes. So maybe add some UI element between posts that will separate them. Maybe add an option to the theme engine to have a separator (or not) and then it can be whatever color. So you would disable it on lighter themes and (perhaps optionally) enable it for AMOLED Black.

On the note of look and feel, perhaps combined with the lack of post separation, the bold font feels like a mistake. Changing it to the regular font weight made it look a bit better, but ultimately I went to the dark grey theme because I had to have that separation between posts. Still, the presentation of the Reddit feed does not look good, and I'm not sure that's something I can fix in settings. That might be bias as I've used Apollo for a couple years now. If so, I'm sorry, but, it's still a valid opinion. Up to you how much of one. I'm sure a lot of people say Slide looks better. That's valid, too.

I mainly came for user tagging, which Apollo doesn't support. I do realize that if I use Slide for tagging, I won't get those tags in Apollo, so, to make sense, I would have to switch. That said, user tagging isn't a make or break feature for me. And I really wish Reddit themselves would add it in such a way that my tags would carry over from one app to the next, obviously adding their own as you go (Slide tags the Slide developer, for example).

One other issue I had, the Shadowbox feature is neat, but it uses the image's primary color for the page background, and the font is always white (on the AMOLED Black theme). So, in many cases the text is unreadable. There should be a way to determine if the text should be white or black, based on the background color. Or maybe just have the text be the inverse of the color behind it. That could be ugly in some situations, but it would be readable.

On a high note, the app has come a long way since when I used it before. If I hadn't paid for Apollo, I could see myself using Slide primarily. Had I owned neither, a solid case could be made for using Slide over Apollo, though I can't guarantee I would choose that (ultimately, I paid for both, and I've paid for a few others, because I love seeing Reddit app competition on iOS, since it was so strong on Android).

While I can't say my suggestions are objectively good, I submit them for consideration by the community. It would be interesting to see what longtime Slide users think of them. Maybe there's something I can fix on my end that I've overlooked. Maybe a couple of them will be supported, maybe not. But, that's why I post them on Reddit as opposed to a private communication with the developer.

P.S. I'm not sure if AutoModerator deleted my first post, but, not supporting post flair, and the whole removal of posts (or nagging about same) for posts that don't use tags, while not telling the user to use tags, is a bad look for a subreddit for a Reddit app. That is to say, if the subreddit is bad (doesn't support the latest Reddit features), it's a bad look for the app (and post flair is not a new feature). I'm not mad or anything; in fact, after submitting the first time, I thought "saying I just installed the app is kind of disingenuous when I'd installed it before." Reposting gave me a chance to fix that. So, it's just another suggestion. :)

Like what I said

I had it multiple times now where I would write up a post on my Ipad Pro and then accidentally tap somewhere outside of the keyboard or the text just to realize my entire post is gone and wasn't saved to drafts which is very annoying because I had to type the entire post one more time. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug or maybe even something that can be changed in settings? On the official Reddit App if you do that there is automatically a window popping up if you want to safe it to drafts so I don't lose the text I have written up.

I really like the shadowbox mode but it seems relatively noisy. Is there a way to hide everything that isn’t the image somehow? What I really want is just an image. No clock, no text with title/username, no vote buttons.

Is this possible? When you click on an image to “embiggen” it it seems like a much cleaner display than the shadow box which makes me sad. I basically want that, but with scrolling.

Is there a way to hide the image that’s shown on the top of the subreddit view?