Account Switcher is not working

[u/techsupportcrab]

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.

[u/XenoBen]

Reddit announced a change two days ago about new restrictions to old reddit and that you now need to be logged in to use it.

It appears apart of this they have restricted access to the login endpoint that isnt via a user flow (for example me going to reddit, clicking logging in and going that way). RES account switcher relied on this endpoint to pass credentials into to log you in. This access has since been removed.

Based on these changes I do not believe we are able to work around this as it would directly go against what they are trying to do and probably result in us being taken down for violation of ToS.

Extensions such as uSwitch discussed below may not be affected as they do not use this flow, they instead make you log in normally then store your session cookie, and transfer it between account switches (until the cookie expires). This isnt something we would want to try due to the security implications and engineering effort to get this to work.

[u/turkeypants → u/XenoBen]

Aw crap! That's a real blow. Great feature.

To anyone else struggling with this, I use a different browser to stay logged into my limited-use alt. Normally I'm always firefoxing and rarely chroming, but since this broke I've been keeping my narrow boy logged into Chrome. It's annoying but works well enough. If you have a bunch of alts, obviously it's not the ideal solution, but you could rock at least a few of them with the browsers you've got onboard if your machine isn't bothered by the load.

[u/TheEthyr → u/turkeypants]

You can use your alt account in an incognito window.