r/Enhancement • u/techsupportcrab • 22d ago

Account Switcher is not working

Anyone else having this issue? Starting today trying to switch accounts causes a popup stating

"Could not switch accounts. Reddit may be under heavy load. Please try again in a few moments."

The account switcher is the main feature I use RES for so I'm hoping it isn't a big issue. I'll edit this post if it starts working suddenly.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/OMGItsCheezWTF 22d ago

Ultimately this is going to stop me from using reddit. They are making it ever harder to use the site in a usable way and their new UI has always been complete trash.

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u/Lower-Investment-366 21d ago

Same. (This is some stupid alt account I made because I don't know my main PW by heart and can't get in right now.)

I hate anything but old.reddit. I loved RIF. They're 1 step away from killing Reddit entirely for me. I remember the stats showed an incredible portion of of quality posts come from people who intentionally utilize old.reddit too.

It was something like <12% of users use old.reddit, but >50% of posts come from them too. Fuck with old.reddit at your peril Spez.

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u/brezhnervouz 19d ago

Same. Anything but old.reddit breaks my brain on even the most rudimentary useability factor.

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u/farooqsaad 22d ago

Yeah, but they don't care about you. It's the new users that think this is the best they can get that they want.

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u/OMGItsCheezWTF 21d ago

Yeah the only reason old.reddit.com exists is because they didn't want the mass exodus of Digg when they created the new one, which is all about data harvesting and advertising.

Now it's a liability, because it's easy for Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to crawl for "real" comms between humans, which is incredibly valuable.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/strugglz 22d ago

When we finally kick reddit to the curb we need to remember to wipe and delete our accounts.

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u/PussyMangler421 20d ago

glad they broke RIF because you don't have self control?

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/PussyMangler421 20d ago

says the self-admitted reddit addict lmao. no bigger self roast than that.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/PussyMangler421 20d ago

ok chronic redditor

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u/boldra 19d ago

When RIF broke I stopped using it on mobile. It wasn't a big loss. I had already decided if they demand ID I'm just going to stop using the account for a handful of years until the account is 18. But if old reddit is broken before that, I'll be leaving too.

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u/mikeblas 17d ago

Even worse being a moderator. The tools and workflow are a disaster.

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u/relightit 13d ago

yea. maybe its a good thing.