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I never used slide. What do people like about it?
For me, I liked the ability to swipe left and right between subreddits (the order on which you could configure), you could also swipe between posts. It's also open source and pretty customisable. Unfortunately it's not been updated in over a year.
The dev abandoned it cause the code is a bit of a nest, to say the least. Im trying to work on that, cause I really want slide to exist
How can someone donate money to the effort? If there's a way I'll donate some money.
I could never get used to any kind of other 3rd party app because the muscle memory from using slide for years was just too strong. I'm beyond happy to find out about this project!
The concept of swiping was used everywhere. Makes it quick and easy to use. You could just swipe right to close a thread, or the video/image. No need to use the back button, or reach for the tiny X in the corner.
And the seamless galley mode was awesome. Very unique (only found it quite similar in Joey).
I can't speak for everyone, but I really enjoyed the "get out of your way" style the app has. I also really liked that you had to slide to upvote/downvote on posts instead of having static buttons you can accidentally press. It also had a decent system for switching between multiple accounts. Finally, it's all open source so one could fork it and customize it if they wanted to.
I like it because I like the feel of the old Material v1 theme (it seems the most functional to me), and Slide takes it and uses it to its limits.
Custom color-coding of subs was nice when you scrolled so far you forgot where you were.
I really like it has buttons to jump to previous/next parent comment. It made skimming top comments a breeze.
I was the only reddit app I found that really worked with new comments.
what I mean with that is when you read a thread, then come back 5h later it would highlight all the new comments so you would not have to reread all the ones you already read the first time.
such a great feature (maybe others have it too, but from the many I tried non had it in that way)
also great ux with swiping allowed for super efficient navigation
I liked that it was available from F-Droid.
There were a couple of other Reddit clients also available from F-Droid (Dawn, Diode, Infinity, RedReader), but I don't remember why I picked Slide over those. All I know is that I didn't spend much time evaluating others and that Slide was "good enough" to not annoy me into wanting to switch.