As the thread came back up we had the pool running on salt water all last summer without any grief. I did turn down the "salt generator" and that actually created a minor problem for me as we had a period of bright sunshine that was evaporating the chlorine so I had to shock the pool with regular pool shock and bought some
pool covers Indianapolis. I then turned the "salt generator" back up a bit and left it alone. All was good after I stopped messing with it.
FWIW, I added 40# of salt during the whole of last season.
We do use a solar cover on the pool when we are not swimming in it, it did not seem to 'increase' any slime issues but it did save the chlorine from evaporating in the bright sunlight when the pool was not being used. I don't use a safety cover during the summer months. Didn't have one on my old pool, didn't install one on this pool when it was built.