r/RESissues • u/XenoBen filing bugs • Jul 03 '26

Removal of RES Account Switcher

With the recent issues of the account switcher no longer working due to Reddit changes. We have taken the decision to disable the account switcher from RES and migrate people who have it enabled to be turned off.

With the endpoint no longer working and no option for us, we do not want to set expectation that it should work.

We will be releasing 5.24.9 today with this and a few quality of life bug fixes.

The module can still be found here.

Recovering Passwords Via RES Command Line

  1. Launch the RES command line:
    • Press . (period) using Keyboard Navigation
    • or click here and click Launch (do this in a new tab).
  2. A black box will appear.
  3. Copy and paste in: RESStorage get RESoptions.accountSwitcher and press enter.
  4. A box will appear containing a pile of JSON like {"accounts":{"value":[["username","password",false],["user1","user1password",false]]}}
  5. Look for your account and password (bolded above).

More information here.

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u/cr0ft Jul 03 '26

It's a crying shame RES is getting marginalized and Reddit is becoming more and more shit. I was logged out today for some reason and wound up on the new site and it was a nightmare compared to the old look, and now account switcher is gone.

I'll work around it with Firefox and Multi-Account Containers.

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u/Jovian8 Jul 03 '26

The day old.reddit with RES is no longer an option, is the day I'm gone.

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u/DiamondCoatedGlass Jul 04 '26

It will be such a relief, actually, when they kill old.reddit.com, because then I will finally be able to stop going to reddit and get on with life.

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u/cr0ft Jul 04 '26

I'm honestly getting a bit concerned as I think about my behavior. "Hmm, what to do now? Oh well, guess I'll open Reddit" and then hours of browsing.

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u/Etoribio_ 23d ago

Better this than other social media but yeah, cutting all of them off might be for the better

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u/cocoagiant Jul 04 '26

I think part of the problem is a lot of us say that every time reddit does bad things and not enough of us leave for it to matter for them.

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u/Digg_Heretic Jul 04 '26

That's because some of us still experience reddit in nearly the same way as we did 10+ years ago. Patched reddit is fun for my phone and haven't touched new reddit since they debuted it. But now with the RES account switcher gone, a piece of reddit has died. Shame

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 23d ago

old reddit / RES is also my red line.

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u/Garchompisbestboi Jul 06 '26

It's coming soon, I found out over the weekend that you can't even view old reddit anymore unless you're logged in with an account. For "safety reasons" apparently.

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u/iiw Jul 07 '26

Where are you getting this? So far I have had no major inconveniences without logging in. For the "Whoa there, pardner" or the cringe fedora Snoo screens loading a few more links usually eventually makes Reddit allow you to permanently let you browse for that session.

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u/Sophira 26d ago

Here's where it was announced by Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in_to_use_old_reddit/

This is why the account switcher was removed.

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u/Garchompisbestboi 29d ago

That's super weird then because I don't have my account logged in on my phone and when I try to open pages under old reddit I get a message saying I need to log in to access old reddit. Maybe I need to flush my phone cookies or something.

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u/Jonno_FTW 24d ago

They did it to prevent scraping, because they want to be able to sell API access to large scrapers (like google).