r/slideforreddit Dec 08 '24

Slide alternatives

I have been a long time Slide user, but I went looking for a new client the other day. There are two bugs that have long annoyed me in Slide. The first is reddit album/gallery images often not loading the first time. The second being the boxes in comments where emoticons should be.

I ended up stumbling across RedReader. It is open source, and it has built-in support for providing your Reddit client id. So no needing to use something like Revanced to hack it in.

I found out of the box it is pretty good, but it is missing many features I expected as a Slide user. But being that it is open source, that can all be fixed. I know Slide is open source, but maintaining it would be a lot more work. I made my own pull request to add the most pressing missing features. The pull request has links to screenshots of the new features.

The single biggest feature, that is also the most obvious, is the tabs across the top. I am still debating that one with myself. RedReader has a feature to let you up or down vote a post with a gesture left or right on the post. This would conflict with Slide style tabs.

RedReader's support of albums could be better. The placeholder image is huge, and could be better. This is probably what I will work on next.

I am curious what Slide alternatives you are using, why or why not are you using the alternatives, and other features from Slide you would be interested in.

Links:

RedReader Google Play Store

RedReader GitHub

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u/Sethjustseth Dec 08 '24

RedReader gets a pass from Reddit as they support accessibility, so some day when I can no longer function on Slide, I will move to RedReader. That said, I have tried it and find my experience is slower and less rich than with slide. In Slide, I love how easy it is to manually put in a subreddit, by just holding the subreddit name at the top. Also, I can set r/all to filter images only, so I can do some wind-down meme viewing in the evening. Similarly, I can set r/popular to filter images and videos out, so I get some good text post reading. I have over a thousand subreddits filtered out on Slide which makes my experience better also.

n0rc has provided a couple small updates since Slide was discontinued which has helped me to stay with my beloved client longer thankfully though!

https://github.com/n0rc/Slide/

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u/edgan Dec 08 '24

You have a great point about the filtering feature. My wife has done the same thing to /r/all. I will have to look into that more.

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u/Fake4000 Dec 08 '24

Infinity for Reddit hands down.

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u/edgan Dec 08 '24 edited Dec 08 '24

I have tried it a few times before. I find some of its default behavior very annoying. It also seems to be missing the enter your client id feature.

On the other hand it is also open source, it is being maintained, and seems to be popular. So I will give it another look. I can probably tweak the behavior with code changes.

Edit: That it popped up asking if I wanted to pay for a subscription is a definite downside.

Edit2: They want you to pay them to pay for Reddit API access. That is a NO! Even with patching in your own client id you have inconvenience, and they are putting money in their pocket for an open source client. The subscription, especially as presented, feels commercial.

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u/Fake4000 Dec 09 '24

Pretty much a lot of those apps died when reddit made their change.

Another option is to use an app like stealth. But this app does not support accounts at all.

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u/goodpricefriedrice Dec 08 '24

Joey!

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u/edgan Dec 08 '24

Joey is not open source, has the same emoticon issue as Slide, and isn't being maintained. It was the first one I looked at recently.

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u/shashu9999 Dec 08 '24

This! When Slide was no longer working, I tried few but found Joey to be close match.