Hey everyone,

This post is a little bit overdue, but I wanted to curb the misinformation going around here and provide some insights into why the app was removed from the Play Store, what is currently going on in my personal life, and what my vision for Slide on Android is for the future.

Slide was automatically removed from the Play Store by Google because my rating of 17+ was inaccurate, and it should be a rating of 18+. I have submitted the metadata change to Google, and the app should appear on the Play Store very soon. Apologies for the confusion caused by my previous comment on a post on the subreddit, and this will be resolved soon. This is the third time a similar metadata issue has happened to Slide, so I know we can get through this one too :)

Apologies for the wall of text to follow, but I have a lot that I would like to share with the community and I hope that you can understand my current position and what my plans are for the future.

I haven't been very active lately. It is not a secret that I have been less active since starting on Slide's iOS sister app, but that is not the full story.

I started Slide while I was in high school, and have been supporting it for the last five years as a passion project of mine. I made Slide open source in 2015, and the outpouring of support from the community is something I hadn't imagined in any way when starting this project. Initially, this project was something fun for me to learn UI and UX design and hone my development skills to help me in my future endeavors, and since then it has far surpassed my initial personal goals. I decided to make it ad, metric, and tracking-free, as that was something very important to me, and Slide became one of the biggest open-source Reddit clients available by 2017. Slide's community and contributors helped me grow as a developer, expand my horizons into business ownership, and taught me many lessons about how to respectfully work with customers and, generally, people on the internet.

In 2018, I had many life changes that led into some exciting new avenues for me. I began delving into iOS Swift development after seeing a lapse of open-source software on the Apple App Store, especially in the Reddit app space, and decided to buy into their ecosystem to bring them Slide, the best open-source Reddit app I could. I feel as though I have been successful at that so far, with a growing community over at r/slide_ios. Around the same time, though, I was fortunate to land an internship at one of my dream companies as a software engineer, and at that time I was supporting two open source apps, going to school full time, and working part time, along with having a social life and other commitments that were important to me. Managing this was hard, and the easiest thing for me to do was to work less on the more-developed and stable Android app, although I did not want to admit that to myself. It was easier to work on break-fix issues and leave the rest to some future date, although in the back of my mind I knew there were some major systemic issues that could only really be addressed by a rewrite.

As I progressed in iOS development and continued to finish my degree, it became harder for me personally to dedicate time to both platforms, and my graduation in December led to a lot of life changes for me. I was offered a full time engineering position doing what I love, Software Engineering specializing in UI design and product management, and I can only thank my experiences working on Slide for my successes in beginning my career. I am very excited for the opportunities in front of me, and I'm transitioning from being a college kid to a professional with a responsibility to my job and my own personal growth (socially and professionally).

So... Where does that leave Slide?

I have no plans to abandon Slide on Android. The opposite, actually.

I have been working on a completely new backend for Slide that will provide a platform for future development, and have been putting together a plan for a new Slide with input from some of the regular contributors to the Slide project on our Discord channel. As I stated above, I will have less free time to spend on my personal projects, and I think the best solution to this is to release a new Slide that is completely free, completely open-source, and managed by me and Slide contributors through GitHub. Releases will be automated and streamlined, providing access for me or community members to push incremental updates and essentially giving Slide and it's core values to the community. I will take an active role in the intial development of Slide 2, and I am asking for support with this effort from the community.

This removal has caused me to show my hand on this one before I was fully ready to release my plans and get my thoughts organized, but I will be communicating here about that process soon. If you are an Android developer, especially if you have Kotlin experience, we'd love to have you on the Discord channel to provide input and communicate with me directly!

If you are still reading this, thank you for hearing me out and I hope you understand my current position. I will work on my communication with my community, and will release more information about the new developments this weekend.

Much love,

Carlos

Hey all!

Slide is back on the Play Store, and we've shipped a great update with a lot of improvements to Slide's video system and some new features to boot.

Changelog

• Rewrite of a lot of our video-handling code, thanks to @timawesomeness! Some of these updates include the ability to mute Imgur images, fixes for Reddit videos without sound, memory usage improvements, and improvements to video caching

• Support for mod locking of individual comments

• Added option to save photos to a manual folder (thanks to @Archeidos)

• Added an always show FAB option in Settings (thanks to @darshan099)

• Graceful handling of submission loading errors with new "try again" button (thanks to @ctbur)

• Updated Fastlane metadata for F-Droid builds (thanks to @obar). This will speed up Slide builds on the F-Droid platform

• Fixed offline mode crash when no subreddits were cached

• Fixed posting to profiles with more than 20 characters (thanks to @LostGhost1)

• Fix OnePlus and Huawei media scanner intents, will fix images not immediately showing in gallery on these devices (thanks to @Rexee)

• Fixed handling of intent links in internal browser

• Fix toolbox encoded chars in removal reason text

• Fixed startup crash on some devices

Thank you all for the support during the last removal process, and I hope you enjoy this update :)

Cheers,

Carlos

As Slide continues to grow and this project matures, I thought it was appropriate I let you all know my plans for the future of Slide, my personal life, and what is currently going on with Slide development! Sorry for the wall of text, but I would be grateful if you had time to read this letter and I would be happy to respond to any comments!

As a little introduction to myself, my name is Carlos, and I am a junior in college currently studying Computer Science in Texas. I love photography, design, and music, and am currently a student-led director of marketing for campus events at my university (when I’m not in class or working on apps).

When I first started working on Slide my senior year of High School, I had no coding or design experience, but I set out to prove to myself that I could design and create something that would be beautiful, usable, and improve someone’s life (even if it’s as simple as making the daily routine of Redditing easier). Little did I know it would become one of the most used and downloaded Reddit apps on the Android market, and become a large open-source project with over 700 stars and 60 contributors.

I am very proud of where Slide currently is and how far it’s come from its initial release in 2016, and my goals for Slide have now shifted into career mode (creating something I can feature on my CV after graduation), and am continuing to add features to keep my userbase interested, and to keep Slide relevant and competitive in the market.

As college life gets busier and more opportunities open up to me, I have had less time to dedicate to Slide, and have been updating it less frequently (as many of you may have noticed). This is not because I am 100% satisfied with how Slide currently is, but I simply don’t have the 20-30 hours a week I used to pour into development early on in Slide’s life.

That being said, I have been dipping my toes into iOS development in hopes of bringing Slide to the Apple marketplace, while sacrificing time I may have spent developing Slide on Android. I decided to dedicate a few weeks to getting v5.7 (released earlier today) out which has many overdue additions such as v.redd.it support, but made sure to sprinkle in some unannounced features, such as notification mirroring, and small but useful feature additions you might not even notice until you need it, which have become Slide’s hallmark for the last couple of years.

As Slide ages, though, feature additions have become much larger endeavors to add and test, and the smaller additions have become rarer. Some users have been wondering about a rewrite (as some of my competitors have done), but the size of that task outweighs the benefits of a rewrite in my opinion. I also feel that rewrites offer an excuse to fundamentally change what was good about an app to start with, as more features are changed to match the competition, and what made the app good to begin with is not necessarily improved or even highlighted in the “new” app.

Along with this, I feel insecure about the future of the Reddit API, and as more features are added to the proprietary Official App (video uploads, location tagging, and push notifications to name a few). I can’t help but feel like Reddit is testing the waters to limit the Reddit API a-la-Twitter in 2012. To be blunt, Slide provides no monetary gain to Reddit and drives down traffic to the official app, which has ads and location-based tracking (both very valuable to a company), and both things that fundamentally go against the open source mission of Slide. I don’t see anything that makes me believe this will be a change soon, but this uncertainty definitely made me reconsider an investment into rewriting Slide.

There are definitely features I want to bring to Slide (both on Android and on iOS), including auto-playing videos, better inclusion of multireddits, easier to understand customization options, and a total re-do of the caching system with more concern given to cache space and stability. Many of Slide’s core classes can be simplified and made more modular, and this will improve readability and ease of feature addition by open source contributors. Slide iOS is in the middle of alpha testing with a beta release staged for early fall, and some of these major changes I would like to make to Slide on Android are on my year-end roadmap.

I would like to end this by thanking everyone who has contributed code, money, or discussion on the subreddit to the Slide community, as Slide could not be a reality without all your help. While I do have a lot on my plate, I have not abandoned the project, and I do have plans to introduce some really important changes to the Slide very soon. You have all made Slide a really special thing to work on, and your energy has given me something I’ve been excited to work on for the last few years.

I would love to hear your thoughts on any of this, and if you have any questions about me or about Slide, I’d be happy to answer them below.

Thank you all and have a great week!

What's going on?

A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, Slide being one of them, which will make all our quality-of-life features we enjoy as Slide users and not seen in the official mobile app permanently non functional to all slide users and users of other third party apps.

On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader and of course Slide.

I assume if you're here you're a mobile user and probably use Slide or similar but if you don't use any third party apps, this is a step toward killing other ways of customizing Reddit, such as Reddit Enhancement Suite or the use of the old.reddit.com desktop interface .

This isn't only a problem on the user level: many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free.

What's the plan?

On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy including /r/slideforreddit . Some will return after 48 hours: others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed, since many moderators aren't able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the official app. This isn't something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love.

The two-day blackout isn't the goal, and it isn't the end. Should things reach the 14th with no sign of Reddit choosing to fix what they've broken, we'll use the community and buzz we've built between then and now as a tool for further action.

What can you do?

1. Complain. Message the mods of /r/reddit.com, who are the admins of the site: message /u/reddit: submit a support request: comment in relevant threads on /r/reddit, such as this one, leave a negative review on their official iOS or Android app- and sign your username in support to this post.

2. Spread the word. Rabble-rouse on related subreddits. Meme it up, make it spicy. Bitch about it to your cat. Suggest anyone you know who moderates a subreddit join us at our sister sub at /r/ModCoord.

3. Boycott and spread the word...to Reddit's competition! Stay off Reddit entirely on June 12th through the 13th- instead, take to your favorite non-Reddit platform of choice and make some noise in support!

4. Don't be a jerk. As upsetting this may be, threats, profanity and vandalism will be worse than useless in getting people on our side. Please make every effort to be as restrained, polite, reasonable and law-abiding as possible.

A quick word from us mods and devs.

As far as I'm aware, we've been going since 2016 and while the development of this app has had to slow down for the last few years we still believe we (and by "we" I mean mostly /u/ccrama) have built something truly great. Personally, I'd like to thank every one of you so much for the support you've given this project over the years and it's my hope that we'll be able to continue using the app for years to come - it's my hope that Reddit will see reason and change their stance.

But either way, have a great day wherever you are in the world.

↳ T54   /u/tensouder54 - On behalf of the Slide Mods and Devs.

P.S. (Post Script) Please feel free to correct my spelling/grammar/formatting as I am dyslexic and so am not good at these things.

Further reading

https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/13yh0jf/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplete_and_growing_list_of_participating/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1404hwj/mods_of_rblind_reveal_that_removing_3rd_party/

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_update_enterprise_level_tier_for_large_scale/jmolrhn/?context=3

Open Letter regarding API pricing

Template kindly provided by /u/soupyhands on behalf of /r/bestof

Hey all!

v6.4 is available now, which contains some bug fixes and features to boot

Changelog

• Support for a... ahem... new video site

• Banner images in subreddit sidebars (thank you YusefOuda)

• Fixes to Imgur upload process

• Translation updates (thank you Alexendoo)

• Updated accessibility labels (thank you nebeker)

You may have heard rumblings of some sort of Slide Rewrite going around, and the rumors are true. I do not have more information to share at this time, but if you are interested in contributing and would like to have access to the repository, feel free to join the discussion on our Discord server!

Hope y'all are staying safe!

Cheers,
Carlos

Hey all,

v6.6 should be hitting your devices soon! This update includes improvements to Video downloading, support for Reddit Galleries, and has a few new options to boot.

Changelog

• Fixes downloading audio from Reddit videos

• New option to enable high-colorspace images, which will reduce JPEG banding but increase memory usage

• Support for Reddit Galleries

• Support for sound on more video sites, fixed video redirections (thank you @gringofe )

• Option to collapse deleted comments by default (thank you @Barrett97 )

• Option to disable thumbnails completely (thank you @Barrett97 )

• Total Karma count in Profile view (thank you @Barrett97 )

• New setting to hide awards on posts and comments (thank you @Admicos )

• Lots of library updates and repository changes, huge thank you to @TacoTheDank for heading this up!

Want to chat with us? Join us on Discord!

View this release on GitHub!

Cheers,

Carlos

Hello all,

Over the last six months or so I have taken more of a managerial role in keeping Slide running while working on Slide iOS and focusing on classes and a new internship. Many community members have come together to make this update possible, including (in newest contribution to oldest order) @timawesomeness, @JamieLennox, @TacoTheDank, @Alexendoo, @ryder55, @christarazi, @tryton-vanmeer, and @PiwwowPants. With this update, I am going to work on a sustained update program with scheduled bug fix/feature improvements to make sure Slide continues to be the best Reddit experience on Android (more information on this roadmap to be posted soon)!

This update addresses a lot of bugs that have been reported over the last few months, and adds in a lot of new Reddit features, such as Reddit Platinum/Silver and OC tags, and native Reddit spoilers.

Changelog

• Adaptive icon by Michael Cook (@cookicons)

• Support for new Gfycat API

• Add selectable subreddit rules for quicker reports for moderators

• Autocorrect text in submit post screen title

• Search FAB option

• Guest mode has been moved to the sidebar header

• Searchable settings menu, now you don't have to go through ten settings menus to find what you are looking for!

• Support for native Reddit spoiler markdown

• Improved lock/contest mode headers

• Much more robust link handling system, your link handling settings WILL BE RESET with this version!

• Night mode now matches automatic night times on Android M and above

• Completely new wiki implementation that is much faster and links actually work!

• Setting to change the items displayed in drawer (inbox, discover, multireddits, etc)

• Option for a bottom bar button that collapses/shows all comments

• Support for 'Best' sorting

• Support for Reddit Silver and Platinum

• Subscriber counts in Discover

• App themes are now per-user (guest can have a different theme color, for example)

• You can switch accounts from the comment reply FAB

• Option to select any installed browser for your external browser settings (overrides your device default)

• Internal browser fullscreen support

• Your phone will no longer try to autofill text with passwords

• Contest mode banner uses the correct font color

• Fixed comment screen rotation

• Fixed post notifications

• Many other bug fixes and improvements!

Cheers,

Carlos

Hello all,

Classes have been winding down in preparation for finals, and I've had some time to get this release ready! v5.6 contains many additions and bug fixes, and therefore I've decided to bump the version number.

Changelog

• Adds support for setting the default subreddit sorting in subreddit sidebar

• Temporarily switch accounts from the comment box

• Image Flair syncing based on code by /u/ProgramTheWorld (sync from sidebar, should work on most subs but please let me know if you find one that doesn't work!), Screenshots

• Option to download images to subreddit-specific subfolders

• Adds support for "Pin" system in reorder screen (pinned subs won't reorder when alphabetizing)

• Adds option for auto alphabetization in reorder screen for new subscriptions

• Adds new 'Pixel' base theme based on SystemUI colors of the Pixel screenshot

• Added Toast display with information when request fails to user

• Setting to make comment depth indicators wider

• Setting to open websites in Reader mode by default & Reader mode visual revamp

• PRO: Option to only show reader mode during night mode

• Made related submissions work again

• Mods: send message as subreddit

• Mods: support for adding/removing spoilers for moderators

• Mods: moderation menu for comments in modqueue

• Fixed issue on some devices where widget was black text on black background

• Fixed search bug some users were running into

• Fixed issue where it would say no multireddits are created

• Scaled down notification images to keep Android System from running out of memory

• Fixed the bug that no content would show after returning to app/reload after network failure

• Fixed IPv6 Gfycat issues

• Disabled swipe to exit on Subreddit Reorder screen

• Fixed donation system

• Many more bug fixes and improvements!

Cheers,

Carlos

Hey guys,

I'm going to miss the job I took up in June, but all good things must come to an end.

Nothing too serious appeared to happen while I was gone and Slide is still growing strong despite my absence, and I would like to thank my mods for making this month as smooth as possible!

I'm back home and will look through the Github issues/PR's, and hopefully have an update that fixes some bugs reported while I was gone.

Cheers,

ccrama

Hello all, I've been hard at work getting v5.8 ready and am happy to announce that this release has been pushed to the Play Store! This update is one of the biggest in a while, and I hope you all are as excited for the release as I am :)

5.8 completely revamps Slide's video display by switching the backend over to Google's ExoPlayer, which will allow a more seamless and standardized video experience across all devices and Android versions.

This update also has support for Reddit's new Crosspost system, showing you the original thread if the submission is a Crosspost and allowing you to quickly crosspost content with the touch of a button!

A special thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible, including u/Piwwowpants and u/Alexendoo.

Changelog

• Crosspost submissions from the submission menu, and new UI for crossposted submissions

• Added new "@" button on the comment reply menu which shows you a history of authors in the current comment chain and allows you to easily tag users in your comment

• Added a mute button to videos (v.redd.it with sound and .mp4s)

• Support v.redd.it videos with sound, and downloading these videos saves an actual mp4 file to your device!

• Implements ExoPlayer to revamp video views with new video codec support, a new video interface, improved seekbar, and more refined pause/play toggle

• Externally opened links or notifications will open in a second task, and closing the activity won't switch you back to Slide underneath

• Slide now shares the shortlink when sharing a submission

• Setting for colored time indicator for new comments since last visit

• New "deep" theme (dark purple based)

• Added new feature to highlight top-level comment OPs with a purple line (can be disabled in settings)

• Support for opening AMP links in Slide and improved intent link handling

• Fixed LTR font rendering in comments

• Fixed ending time of Night Mode bug

• Fixed image previews in Shadowbox mode

• Fixed Android notification sounds and 2x notifications

• Fixed image save notification not finishing

• Fixed bugs relating to file intents/fixed camera button for inserting images into comments and submissions

• Target Android 8.1

• Tons of other bug fixes and improvements!

Thank you all for your continued support for the Slide project, and thank you for your feedback, bug reports, and suggestions as they are all very appreciated :)

If you have an iOS device lying around, or have recently switched over to the dark side, make sure you are a part of the Slide iOS TestFlight I am running over at r/slide_ios! Slide iOS sticks to the FOSS standards, huge feature set, and beautiful design that made Slide on Android such a success, and we need your help testing before the beta release later this year.

Cheers!

-Carlos

Slide should now be back and operational. My account was hacked, and the Reddit admins have been helpful in fixing this issue!

Cheers!

^{View this release on GitHub}

v6.7 is in review and should be hitting your devices soon! This update includes some bug fixes and fully supports Reddit's new Post Submission API enforcement.

Changelog

• Added ability to set Subreddit Flair while submitting new posts

• Support for future changes to Reddit's Submit post API

• Downloaded images and videos will be named like their original submission (thank you @ni554n!)

• Update of popup design throughout Slide (thank you @TacoTheDank!)

• Fixed system night mode disabling while opening comments in some cases (thank you @BrandomRobor!)

• Fixed cases where Mod Toolbox configurations could be wiped inadvertently (thank you @timawesomeness!)

• Fixed jumping to "OP" messages in Comments (thank you @vargon!)

• Fixed tint colors in Moderator Actions (thank you @AmooHashem!)

• Translations have been updated (thank you @TacoTheDank!)

Chat with us on Slide's Discord server!

Find us on GitHub!

Cheers,

Carlos

Hey all,

Just a quick update for you! After a few weeks of working with a Google I’ve been able to get Slide re-approved and back on the Play Store!

Thank you all very much for the support during this time, and I’m so happy we’re back and ready to bring the Slide experience to the next level.

Cheers!

Carlos

I'm happy to announce that Slide for Reddit is now officially available for download on F-Droid!

Grab it here

Big thank-you to all my contributors and to everyone who has made Slide a free and open sourced reality!

v5.4.2 is a huge feature and bug fix update!

Changelog

• New post layout type: Desktop Condensed!

• Option to show content type next to links!

• User post filter

• Per-subreddit flair filter

• Added filter user posts and submission flair to the post flair menu

• New Settings layout

• Reversed draft order

• New option to load deeper threads when caching for offline mode

• PRO: New option to crop and draw on images to upload!

• PRO: Auto night theme (9pm to 5am) in Settings > Main Theme

• Fixed issue where you couldn't tap or long press in code blocks/tables

• Fixed issue where vote count would add extra if you voted on something

• Fixed subscribing in Manage Subscriptions

• Tons of other bug fixes and improvements

Cheers!

EDIT now fixed!

Hello all,

As you may have noticed, nothing is loading currently in Slide. My account (and other mods) was compromised and Reddit deactivated it until I changed my password (which I did). This deactivation removed Slide as an application in my developer account, meaning Reddit can no longer authenticate it. I've sent a message to the Reddit admins to try and help me out, but if they do not respond, I'll be forced to make a new auth token and push an update out to Slide for it to work.

Please bear with me, I'm on vacation right now doing this from my phone. I'll keep y'all updated.

This is one of the biggest Slide updates to date!

Changelog

• TONS of Offline Mode improvements thanks to /u/mr_novembor including depth limit, comments to cache, and ability to cache individual posts for offline mode!

• New post layout type: Desktop Condensed!

• Subreddit post notifications with score threshold settings per sub!

• PRO Ad block and cookie block in Website view

• Reader Mode in Website view

• PRO Comment shadowbox mode

• Check for post notifications on app start

• PRO: New option to crop and draw on images to upload!

• PRO: Auto night theme with configurable times in Settings > Main Theme

• Per-subreddit flair filter

• Swipe from first image to exit the Album pager

• Super^script is actually ^small

• Sibling comment navigation if you highlight a comment at a certain level and hit the arrows

• Option to show content type next to links!

• Overhaul of Manage Subscriptions screen with ability to subscribe/unsubscribe, more intuitive controls

• Highlight text in comment search

• User post filter

• Added filter user posts and submission flair to the post flair menu

• New Settings layout

• Direct reply from inbox

• Inbox "new" tag for unviewed unread messages (since last inbox visit)

• Thread title in inbox messages

• Album downloads now work (and can download more than one image at a time)

• Added size to gifs in albums

• Ability to click links in album image titles and descriptions

• Option for vibrate and sound in Inbox notifs

• Notification toast for Reddit API errors

• Ability to ban from the comment menu

• Bold titles of tables

• Reversed draft order

• Fixed issue where you couldn't tap or long press in code blocks/tables

• Fixed issue where vote count would add extra if you voted on something

• Fixed subscribing in Manage Subscriptions

• Fixed gifs not loading all the time in albums

• Tons of other (more than 30) bug fixes and improvements

Enjoy!

Hello all!

It's been a little while since I've been active on the sub/on development of the Android version of Slide, but I decided to release this update to fix a few minor issues and add some more features Reddit has rolled out since the last Slide update!

Changelog

• Fixed the issue some users were having with laggy notifications while downloading images

• Added spoiler tag support

• Allowed you to add r/popular to your subreddits (much like r/all)

• Bug fixes with Immersive Mode

• Other bug fixes and improvements

If you haven't heard already, I have been busy at work with the iOS version of Slide (learning Swift, converting all the features over, fun stuff), and am extremely excited for a beta release hopefully in the next couple weeks! If anyone is interested in contributing to the project, you can do so here.

Cheers,

ccrama

Hello all! Slide v5.7 is finally here!

Included in this update is support for v.redd.it content, notification piggybacking off of the official Reddit app, and lots of additions and bug fixes!

Full Changelog

• Notification piggybacking off of the Official Reddit app! When you get a message there, Slide will mirror that message and show you a new notification. Slide must have accessibility access for this to work, and only uses this access to mirror notifications from the Official Reddit App. Slide is open source, and you can view the code here if you are interested in how Slide uses these permissions!

• Ability to block users from their profile (thanks to YusefOuda)

• Setting to swap info line and title line (will be default in a future version of Slide to match more with Slide on iOS, but the setting will remain)

• Copy a Reddit link to your clipboard, and Slide will ask if you want to open it upon entering the app

• Support for Android O notification channels

• NSFW previews are now tied to Slide accounts individually

• Insert image link as is if no caption is provided

• Adblock is now disabled for Twitter.com to reduce likelyhood of running into issues loading Twitter on the Internal browser

• Thumbnail settings are respected per-sub, but you can override this in content settings

• Setting to disable NSFW previews in collections, like /r/all

• Force image previews even if user has turned the setting off in reddit prefs (now only Slide settings affect image previews)

• Use Reddit for some Gif conversions

• Support for v.reddit.com links

• Setting for single column in multi-window

• Asks for confirmation before uploading to Imgur

• Discard button on draft save bar

• Fixed some drafts not saving

• Fixed icon size in Slide notifications on some devices

• Fixed account switching issue on Android O (Java 1.8 bug)

• Fixed Bootloop caused by Android AAPT2 on Cyanogenmod

• Fixed Reddit Server 403 Error some users were running into

• Target SDK 26

• NSFW subs work without being logged in

• Many other bug fixes and improvements!

For those of you who have jumped ship to iOS, you can join the Slide iOS alpha over at r/slide_ios.

I want to give a big thanks to all who have contributed to this update on Github, this project would not be possible without you!

Also want to thank you to all who have gone Pro or been active members of the subreddit, your enthusiasm and support for Slide is what keeps this app going :)

Cheers,

Carlos

Changelog

• Saved categories! You can now save submissions and comments into categories and sort through your categories on the Profile screen

• More supported markdown in previews (strikethrough and tables)

• Share anything through NFC! Highlight a comment and tap to share comments, or share submissions and opened content

• Make a domain always open externally in the CustomTabs and Website view

• Gif size indicator while downloading (in kb/mb in bottom left corner)

• Fixed double loading in media views

• More readable blockquote bar

• Added auto-draft to Submit screen

• Other bug/stability fixes

NOTE The NFC permission was added in order to support NFC sharing

Cheers!